Here is a video of an attempt to drop a 275-foot smoke stack in Ohio in the right direction. Kids ran, screaming. No one hurt. Lights went out. Adults blushed. 10…9…8…7…6…5…4… Quick observations include this: 1. The CHILD had the most sense among all of the people when she had the sense to turn and run and yell to the ‘grown-ups’, “RUN!” 2. Check out the last worker to make a dash for it and how much she delayed to the very end! File Under: The best-laid plans of mice and men oft go astray.
My mom, Peggy O’Neill, turns 89 on November 14th. Still going strong, Mom’s still very much this ‘middle-aged’ guy’s Mom and is as invested in her role as wife, mother, and friend to many as she has ever been. It goes to prove that while our roles change over time, we still can serve God in important ways. May we forge against the tide of this day to disregard our elders. “Rise in the presence of the aged, show respect for the elderly and revere your God. I am the LORD.” Leviticus 19:32 NASB [Originally posted May 9, 2010] It was September of 1943 when Peggy Riley loaded up her brand new, yet very used green 1932 Model “A” Ford coupe with its rumble seat and Kelly green spoked wheels, blessed with questionable brakes and glass jars of water for a radiator that was wont to boiling-over. Armed with a new bachelor’s degree from Emmanuel College in the Fenway in Boston and with a desire to teach, the single child of Pearl and Jimmy Riley, a local “poor man’s lawyer” from Lowell, drove northward into the relatively distant and far-off village of Newmarket, New Hampshire. Peggy had jumped at the Continue reading →
Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas – that’s the abomination dressing itself up as a church every Sunday morning and then traveling nationwide to protest as funerals of fallen United States soldiers. And it happened again. This time, residents of a small town sent the clearly lost souls back on the road to spew their false doctrine elsewhere. Here’s the story from Fox News “We got everybody here early so we could take up all the parking spots,” Rebecca Rooney of Weston, Mo., told Fox4kc.com. “We did that so Mr. Phelps wouldn’t have a contingency that was really close.” It seems that there is a steady drumbeat of the lunacy associated with Westboro Baptist Church. Their modus operandi is not the Great Commission, the spreading of the Gospel message, but one of co-opting solemn moments like those of a funeral for a loved one, a loved one whose notoriety is borne out of fearless service to our nation. In the book of Matthew chapter 28, verses 18-20, Jesus commands, Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the Continue reading →
Oh, waiter? Belching bovines, Batman! Seven hundred thousand dollars in federal tax money to study burping cattle? Really? As a friend of mine just remarked, “Meanwhile back at the ranch I am looking for loans to send my kid to school.” Couldn’t have said it better myself. “Cows emit most of their methane through belching, only a small fraction from flatulence,” said the project’s principal investigator, Ruth Varner of UNH’s Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space. Pass the Lea & Perrons. Instead. The Manchester Union Leader reports that we are going to fund nearly three quarters of a million dollars in research to the University of New Hampshire in Durham, NH to study burping cattle. While I enjoy a belching bovine as much as the next guy, would we not be better off putting a cork in that project for a decade or so just to see how it all, well, works out in the end? Oh, I can hear the naysayers: “How many more must perish before this great nation of ours recognizes our grievous irresponsibility in this matter as we pass gas to the generation of our great grandchildren?” Pass the Lea & Perrons. Indeed.
