joyfulchristian

Still laid up

So the dentist thinks I got an infection while recovering from the pulled tooth. Have pain pills and antibiotics. Hopefully will be better soon.

In the mean time, it's pretty hard to think of anything semi-interesting to say.

Owww

Still under the weather from my dentist trip.

Hopefully will get back to posting soon.

Oh Noes!

Romney eats coffee flavored ice cream!

The press really has no clue about religion at all, do they?

Things I learned at the dentist

So today I had to have a tooth pulled. The original plan was a root canal, but the entodontist said the tooth wasn't salvageable. (It was a very bizarre thing, really. The decay appeared very quickly and, I'm told, in an unusual part of the tooth.)

I had some other work done first and then they got ready to pull the tooth. That's when I learned that dentists have pliers. They don't call them that of course; they call them forceps. They are, however, pliers. Very nice pliers, but still pliers.

And then, the pain. Of course they had me on a local anesthesia so I didn't hurt then. By the time I got home, however, the pain was intense and I appeared to be going into shock. I was so cold that my wife had to cover me with 4-5 blankets and quilts.

Overall, not a great experience.

And these people also vote

Via How Appealling, I found this 10th Circuit opinion wrestling with how to resolve a jury verdict where the jury found the defendant guilty and not guilty.

Talk about cognitive dissonance. The jury found a man guilty of conspiracy to distribute drugs, but on the form where they were supposed to indicate which drugs he conspired to distribute, they answered no to each one.

Sigh.

A story worth telling

Smitty honors a true hero.

May God bless them

Donald Sensing on combat medics:

I recall reading Stephen Ambrose's observation that in World War II, the military specialty with the highest percentage of its soldiers decorated for heroism in action were medics. Infantrymen have spoken of being under fire, lying as flat as they can on the ground and trying to get into the ground, when the call goes out, "Medic!" (or in the Marines, "Corpsman!"). Then, with fire whizzing all around and the grunts cursing buttons on their shirts for being so thick, they see the medic stand up, run through the incoming fire and kneel beside the stricken one to treat him, apparently oblivious to the instant death tearing through the air only inches away.

Red Letter Edition

Luke 6:22-23
English Standard Version (ESV)

22 “Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your name as evil, on account of the Son of Man! 23 Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven; for so their fathers did to the prophets.

Certainly being reviled by the world is not proof that your walking with Christ; however, if the world isn't against you, you're probably doing it wrong.

This is a hard teaching. We want to be liked. It hurts when people denounce us for following Christ. Certainly, I've been guilty of standing down and refusing to fight rather than firmly endorsing what I know to be right.

When was the last time you were spurned "on account of the Son of Man?

Olympics

I'm not much for the Olympics. Very few of the events do much for me. I love Soccer, so I was thrilled to learn see the US win the Gold. (Even better since they beat the Japanese who had beaten them for the World cup last year.)

Seeing us take gold in B-Ball for men and women was great as well. I really don't watch basketball much any more, but watching the men's final was enjoyable.

I've got to disagree

Frank says:

The country basically has a terminal illness with its deficit, and Obama and the Democrats strategy had been to ignore it and hope it goes away.

That's somewhat unfair. The Democrats didn't look at the guy with a fatal illness and decide to do nothing. Instead, they decided to reinfect him.

How pointless is Olympic Woment's B-ball?

The US players say inter-squad scrimmages are usually harder than actual games.

Funniest thing I've read all day

From Frank J.

I hear Obama once had a lemonade stand as a kid. It ended with his grandparents’ house being foreclosed on.

Screwed up algorithm?

The top subject line in my Google News sports topic is currently Mitt Romney. This could be a long 3 months.

No officer, I was speeding

... please give me a ticket.

Rookie Chicago Cubs catcher Steve Clevenger said Friday he apologized to manager Dale Sveum for getting ejected during an at-bat when the umpire called a ball during Thursday’s game against the Cincinnati Reds.

While it's a little more complicated than this, the gist really is that he was ejected for arguing a call that went in his favor.

So is this better or worse

... than when Hillary talked to Eleanor Roosevelt?

Nancy Pelosi sees dead people and they tell her that she's awesome!

I wasn't the only one to see a Hillary connection.

Well, this would be interesting

Clearly, speed alone does not make one a great striker. It certainly doesn't hurt though.

On Monday, 2012 Olympic 100-meter champion Usain Bolt told a British newspaper that he'd like to play for Manchester United. On Tuesday, United star Rio Ferdinand offered to help, and the two exchanged tweets about the possibility. "People think I am joking, but if Alex Ferguson called me up and said, 'OK let's do this, come and have a trial,' it would be impossible for me to say no," Bolt told the Sun on Monday. "I would not take up the challenge if I didn't think I was good enough. I am a very accomplished player and know I could make a difference." On Tuesday, Rio Ferdinand sent this tweet to Bolt: "if you want that trial at Man Utd shout me, I'll speak to the boss!! Well done in 100m, waiting for you to smash the 200m now!"

Bold insists that he's not just fast, but good as well. I can't opine on his quality as a player, but you've got to admit this is a fun story to think about.

Why doesn't this get more play?

I think it's common knowledge that Mitt Romney is quite wealthy. It's also fairly well known that his dad was very successful. I suspect most people assumed, as I did, that Romney built his wealth using "family money" as a stepping stool as it were.

However, that doesn't appear to be the case at all.

In the comments to this Moe Lane post he links this wide ranging interview with Romney.

LAMB: By the way, why did your father not give you any of his inheritance?

ROMNEY: Well, he didn’t have as much as I think some people anticipated. And I did get a check from my dad when he passed away. I shouldn’t say a check, but I did inherit some funds from my dad.

But I turned and gave that away to charity. In this case I gave it to a school which Brigham Young University established in his honor, the George W. Romney School of Public Management.

How is this not being shouted from the mountain tops? Romney gave away his inheritance? He passes it off as it if wasn't a big thing because his father didn't have as much money as people think. That may be so, but still, how many people would really do this?Doesn't this make Romney MUCH more likeable? I don't understand why someone, the RNC maybe, isn't pounding this drum like crazy.

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Seemed like an overblown response to me too

A Romney spokesperson responded to an incredibly disingenuous attack with "Oh yeah, well Romneycare solves this problem."

Obviously this isn't encouraging to conservatives. Stacy McCain notes that Erick Erickson reacted by, basically, giving up on the entire Romney campaign 3 whole months before the election.

Stacy thinks this is a bit overblown. That was my reaction as well. Can we not admit that someone who is, at least nominally, on "our" side did something stupid without concluding that all is instantly lost?

Randy Travis really seems to be going down hill

For a long time, he seemed like a really classy guy. Then, not too long ago, he had a divorce that seemed, well, strange.

Now he's been arrested on at least his second alcohol related offense this year. This time, he threw in public nudity.

Really missing the point

So I've seen lots of websites carrying claims from a retired Air Force Lt. Colonel that there were not one, but 2, UFO crashes in the Roswell area in 1947.

However, all this about 2 UFOs isn't that big a deal. Here's the part of his story that would be huge news if it was true.

‘The first one was shot down by an experimental U.S. airplane that was flying out of White Sands, New Mexico, and it shot what was effectively an electronic pulse-type weapon that disabled and took away all the controls of the UFO, and that's why it crashed. ‘When they hit it with that electromagnetic pulse - bingo! There goes all their electronics and, consequently, the UFO was uncontrollable.’

We're seriously supposed to believe that the US Airforce had a fully functionally EMP device capable of being aimed in 1947?

There's all sort of ways to attack this, but I'll just go with this one. If we had a functional "experimental" EMP gun in 1947, why aren't we using them now? How many wars have we fought since then? How much easier would they have been if we could have knocked out the enemies electronics in a targeted manner?

Conspiracy theorists aren't even trying any more.

Disgusting

7 dead in attack on Sikh temple.

I wish I had something poignant to say, but I don't.

Not exactly news

Parental bullying causes emotional damage:

Parents and other caregivers who demean, bully, humiliate or otherwise emotionally abuse children may not know the harm they can cause and often do not get the help that they and their children need, says a new report from the American Academy of Pediatrics.

My wife's father is still in denial over the damage he caused and continues to cause.

Tea Party smashes Obama campaign office

The Sacramento Bee has a very short AP story posted about an Obama campaign office getting vandalized.

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Police say protesters marching through downtown Oakland smashed a window at President Barack Obama's campaign office.

Nothing was mentioned about what these protesters wanted or who they were. It must have been those violent Tea Partiers we're always hearing about though, right? I mean isn't that just obvious? Typically, when you say someone's been attacked and don't mention who did the attacking, people are going to assume it must have been done by their opponents, right?

In this case though, it was the leftists who don't think Obama is leftist enough. Yup, those "peaceful" Occupiers again.

 

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2012/08/03/4691854/protesters-smash-window-at-obamas.html#storylink=cpy