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

 

We call that truth in adertising

Charlie Crist should become a Democrat, Dan Gelber says | Capitol Comments

Former Republican Gov. Charlie Crist endorsed Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson this week, attending a fundraiser for the senator in Orlando.

The move has amped up speculation that Crist, who left the GOP and became an independent in his failed 2010 U.S. Senate bid, may make the switch to the Democratic Party and run again for governor in 2014.

Republicans have called Crist “two-faced” for his various political moves. And many Democrats are skeptical about whether they should embrace him as their standard-bearer.

But one prominent Democrat says Crist should become a Democrat.

And this is a guy that the Republican party to tried to shove down Florida's throats a couple of years ago. Thankfully, Republicans in Florida found their gag reflex.

Brilliant

Can't really excerpt enough of this article to give the flavor, so read the whole thing.

Here's a recap. A small trucking company thought one of their trucks was in the shop. In reality, the DEA convinced one of the drivers to help them with an undercover sting. The driver was killed by drug dealers and one cop shot another in the confusion.

Meanwhile, the trucking company's truck was badly damaged and they haven't been able to get the DEA to pay for the damages.

You can't fix stupid

Olympic sprinter kicked off team for visiting his wife?

Wow

The Democrats have picked some interesting candidates for Senate the last couple of years, haven't they?

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee Democratic Party is disavowing the man who won the party’s nomination to challenge Republican Sen. Bob Corker in November, saying the little-known candidate belongs to an anti-gay hate group. Mark Clayton, 35, reported raising no money and campaigned little but received more than 48,000 votes, twice the number of his nearest competitor in Thursday’s seven-candidate Democratic primary.

Apparently, he's a bit of a conspiracy theorist.

"Mark Clayton believes the federal government is building a massive, four-football-field-wide superhighway from Mexico City to Toronto as part of a secret plot to establish a new North American Union as we know it," the article reads. "On Thursday, he became the Tennessee Democrats' nominee for U.S. Senate."

So is this better or worse than Alvin Greene 2 years ago?

Not even one full day after the victory, however, it was revealed that Greene had been arrested months ago on a charge of disseminating, procurring, or promoting obscenity. The incident took place November 12, 2009 at the Bates House residence hall on the University of South Carolina's campus. A female student reported that a man, later identified as Greene, sat down beside her in the computer lab. The student did not know Greene. She said the man asked her for her name, room number, and phone number, but she did not give it to him. She told officers that five minutes later, he told her to look at his computer screen, which she said had pornographic images on it. She told him that it was "offensive and not funny," and started to leave. The incident report states that Greene then asked her if he could come to her room, and she told him to leave her alone. The student said she then went up to her room and told her resident mentor about the incident.

I believe I just said something

... about human depravity.

Sick

There are lots of fires and many people in danger in the OKC area tonight. Worse yet is word this may not be an accident.

Mark Myers of the Oklahoma County Sheriff Dept. is saying there are reports of witnesses seeing a 2008 black or dark blue Ford F150 with red lettering on the side throwing fire devices from their truck. This is in the Luther area.

I suppose it's a good thing that I can still be shocked by the depravity humans are capable of.

Lord, please keep these people and the emergency workers protecting them safe.

Dude

Really?

Twenty years after the original Dream Team was supposed to lift the basketball fortunes of countries around the world, about the only thing that has changed is that opposing players now wait until they get off the court to ask for autographs. This team may or may not be competitive with the one fronted by Michael Jordan, but it's clear that if the caliber of international play has risen in the last two decades, it hasn't risen by much.

Smoking pot much? The original Dream Team wasn't put on the court to lift the basketball fortunes of other countries. While that may have been the reasoning behind FIBA changing it's rules, the reason we fielded the original "Dream Team" was to avenge our failure to win the gold medal in Seoul.

Apparently

... they've forgotten how to have fun in NZ. New Zealand's coach and some players were apparently upset about US women's soccer players doing cartwheels's after a goal.

"We wouldn't do it," he said. "When teams concede (a goal), they're disappointed, and they want to get on with the game. We wouldn't do it, but it's obviously something that Americans do. We've seen them do it a few times in this tournament. We can't let it affect us. We just get on with the game. "It's something I guess they work on in training. We try to work on scoring goals and stopping Wambach and Morgan. We haven't got time to work on celebrations in training. If it makes them happy and they win games, then good on them."

Apparently they need to work harder on keeping Wambach from scoring.

Now that's just wrotten

Aww. Buttercup made a little house out of block and then Obama yelled, “You didn’t build that!”, knocked it over and left her crying.

Let's play name that party

Ex-Ala. gov. going back to prison for bribery - Yahoo! News

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Following years of appeals and a vocal campaign by supporters, ex-Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman is heading back to prison after being sentenced Friday to more than six years for bribery and other convictions.

They do eventually tell you he's a Democrat, but not until near the end when describing a bid to get him a padon.

Currently in Google Chrome

Right now if I start typing "Harry Reid" in Google Chrome's search bar, this is the first recommended webpage. This is the second suggested web search.

There's just as much proof that Harry's a pedarast as Harry has that Romney hasn't paid his taxes.

Cathy family

Yeah, you didn't build that, did you?

Way to go Sounders!

Seattle Sounders beat Caledonia in Champions League opener - ESPN

SEATTLE -- Andy Rose had a goal and two assists to help the Seattle Sounders beat Caribbean champion Caledonia AIA of Trinidad and Tobago 3-1 on Thursday night in their opening Group Four game in CONCACAF Champions League.

So this has been fun

This highway bridge is between our house and, well, pretty much everything.

A well-traveled old bridge on State Highway 33 near downtown Guthrie has buckled under the summer heat.

The bridge, in the Cottonwood Creek area, was closed between 7 and 8 p.m. Wednesday and is expected to be closed until before rush hour Friday afternoon, said Terri Angier, state Transportation Department spokeswoman.

Great!

TSA agrees to allow unionization of agents | The Daily Caller

The best of both worlds of big government merged on Thursday: The Transportation Security Administration agreed to allow the American Federation of Government Employees to unionize its workforce.

As if TSA service wasn't bas enough.

Red Letter Edition

 

Luke 2:46-49

English Standard Version (ESV)

⁴⁶ After three days they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. ⁴⁷ And all who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers.⁴⁸ And when his parents^[a] saw him, they were astonished. And his mother said to him, “Son, why have you treated us so? Behold, your father and I have been searching for you in great distress.”⁴⁹ And he said to them, “Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?”^[b]

And as for us, whose work are we about? Should it be obvious to others that we, also, are going about the Father's business?

For me, I know, this is a constant struggle.

 

You didn't win that

Sorry Michael Phelps. Better luck next time, I guess.

Well, it could still happen

Gotta hand it to Harvey: I swear, if Obama were President in Edison’s time, we’d still be lighting the country with whale oil.

Leaking like a sieve

Obama authorizes secret support for Syrian rebels - Yahoo! News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has signed a secret order authorizing U.S. support for rebels seeking to depose Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his government, sources familiar with the matter said.

The sources may be familiar with "the matter", but they are apparently unfamiliar with the meaning of the word "secret". To be fair though, this was probably one of those intentional leaks meant to make the president look tough.

Hey Obama

You didn't bui ... Well, yeah I guess you did build this. We just wish you hadn't.

Now that's a sign

Not exactly a reset button, but close enough.

Chick-fil-a appreciation day

 

As I've pointed out earlier, the comments from Chick-fil-a's president weren't "hateful" and the outrage was manufactured to do something liberals havebeen wanting to do for a long time, but couldn't politically until now.

The attempts by government officials to use their power to punish them for their speech is truly disgusting. It looks like lots of people don't agree with them though.

Update:

Yeah, strong-arming a fast food chain is working out really well.

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Yeah, tell me again why the Olympics are so great

Half the teams that qualified for the quarterfinals in badminton have been ejected from the games for match fixing. No, it doesn't appear they were being leaned on by gangsters to play with gambling odds. (Do people bet on badminton?) They were trying to rig the seeding of the tournament, apparently.

You keep using that word

Four years later, some ‘Obamacons’ disenchanted with Obama | The Daily Caller

In 2008, several Republicans endorsed Democratic then-Sen. Barack Obama over the Republican nominee, Sen. John McCain. But heading into 2012, many of the “Obamacons,” as The Economist dubbed them four years ago, have become disenchanted with the president, actively unwilling to vote for him or uncommited.

Of the 17 “Obamacons” who spoke to The Daily Caller over the past couple of months, seven said they still plan to vote for Obama, three expressed displeasure with both Obama and GOP hopeful Mitt Romney, three said they remained undecided, and four declined to comment.

Let's review. You're talking about 17 "conservatives" who, in 2008, voted for the most liberal member of the US Senate for President. Of those 17, not one of them will commit to voting for that same very liberal's only opponent with any chance of success and a strong plurality will vote for said liberal gain.

Maybe they aren't actually all that conservative after all. (I realize that some of them are clearly Republicans, but that ain't exactly the same thing.)

Cue Inigo Montoya.