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Friday, April 22, 2016
Thursday, April 21, 2016
Curmudgeonly & Skeptical presents Boned Jello
Curmudgeonly & Skeptical presents Boned Jello: Talking Dog For Sale
mission
impawsable
mission
impawsable
A
guy is driving around the back woods of Montana and he sees a sign in
front of a broken down shanty-style house: 'Talking Dog For Sale 'He rings the
bell and the owner appears and tells him the dog is in the backyard.
The guy goes into the backyard and sees a nice looking Labrador
retriever sitting there.
the dog.
'Ten dollars,' the guy says.
'Ten dollars? This dog is amazing! Why on earth are you selling him so
cheap?'
'Because he's a Bullshitter. He's never been out of the yard'
guy is driving around the back woods of Montana and he sees a sign in
front of a broken down shanty-style house: 'Talking Dog For Sale 'He rings the
bell and the owner appears and tells him the dog is in the backyard.
The guy goes into the backyard and sees a nice looking Labrador
retriever sitting there.
'You
talk?' he asks.
'Yep,' the Lab replies.
After the guy recovers from the shock of hearing a dog talk, he says
'So, what's your story?'
The Lab looks up and says, 'Well, I discovered that I could
talk when I was pretty young. I wanted to help the government, so... I
told the CIA.
In no time at all they had me jetting from country to country, sitting
in rooms with spies and world leaders, because no one figured a dog
would be eavesdropping.'
'I was one of their most valuable spies for eight years
running...
But the jetting around really tired me out, and I knew I wasn't getting
any younger so I decided to settle down. I signed up for a job at the
airport to do some undercover security, wandering near suspicious
characters and listening in. I uncovered some incredible dealings and
was awarded a batch of medals.'
'I got married, had a mess of puppies, and now I'm just retired.'
The guy is amazed. He goes back in and asks the owner what he wants fortalk?' he asks.
'Yep,' the Lab replies.
After the guy recovers from the shock of hearing a dog talk, he says
'So, what's your story?'
The Lab looks up and says, 'Well, I discovered that I could
talk when I was pretty young. I wanted to help the government, so... I
told the CIA.
In no time at all they had me jetting from country to country, sitting
in rooms with spies and world leaders, because no one figured a dog
would be eavesdropping.'
'I was one of their most valuable spies for eight years
running...
But the jetting around really tired me out, and I knew I wasn't getting
any younger so I decided to settle down. I signed up for a job at the
airport to do some undercover security, wandering near suspicious
characters and listening in. I uncovered some incredible dealings and
was awarded a batch of medals.'
'I got married, had a mess of puppies, and now I'm just retired.'
the dog.
'Ten dollars,' the guy says.
'Ten dollars? This dog is amazing! Why on earth are you selling him so
cheap?'
'Because he's a Bullshitter. He's never been out of the yard'
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
Monday, April 18, 2016
Sunday, April 17, 2016
We Don’t Have to Live Like This – PA
We Don’t Have to Live Like This – PA: 2 Corinthians 4:16-18. For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
The Top 40: April 2016 Archives
The Top 40: April 2016 Archives: It bears repeating....
My favorite part about the Obama era is all the racial healing.
My favorite part about the Obama era is all the racial healing.
AMERICAN DIGEST: Comment on There Is No Other Stream
AMERICAN DIGEST: Comment on There Is No Other Stream:
Further Up and Further In, which is a literature based study using The Chronicles of Narnia
Further Up and Further In, which is a literature based study using The Chronicles of Narnia
James LePore Fiction Ivictus
Invictus
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.
William
Ernest Henley lost his left leg to arthritic tuberculosis when he was
nineteen. Four years later he was told that his right foot had to come
off. Although he was told he would die if he did not have this second
amputation, he refused, and instead put himself in the hands of a
physician who had developed new but untried methods, including a
radically new surgery, to arrest, if not cure, the disease. He spent
three years in hospital taking this treatment, during which he wote Invictus. He did not lose his right foot, and lived another thirty active years.
Ernest Henley lost his left leg to arthritic tuberculosis when he was
nineteen. Four years later he was told that his right foot had to come
off. Although he was told he would die if he did not have this second
amputation, he refused, and instead put himself in the hands of a
physician who had developed new but untried methods, including a
radically new surgery, to arrest, if not cure, the disease. He spent
three years in hospital taking this treatment, during which he wote Invictus. He did not lose his right foot, and lived another thirty active years.
I believe
that when Henley made his decision to either die or save his right
foot, he stepped into a dimension of time and space that very few of us
ever have to contemplate entering, an arena where fear and courage do
battle, and in which there is no loser. Entering this dimension defines
you forever and sets you free.
that when Henley made his decision to either die or save his right
foot, he stepped into a dimension of time and space that very few of us
ever have to contemplate entering, an arena where fear and courage do
battle, and in which there is no loser. Entering this dimension defines
you forever and sets you free.
The five novels in my Invictus Cycle are
connected by the simple but endlessly reverberating decision that the
central characters in each book must make: to live free or die.
connected by the simple but endlessly reverberating decision that the
central characters in each book must make: to live free or die.
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