Thanksgiving Summary
I know it’s a bit late, but I thought I’d write an update from our Thanksgiving trip to North Carolina.
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News for The Week of Nov. 30, 2007
Lots of weirdness this week with a guy’s girlfriend biting off his tongue, and a couple of cops getting run over by another police car during a chase. And probably the big story was a roadside cleanup crew finding 60 lbs. of pot on the side of I-4.
Read moreAnd the Walls Came Tumbling Down
I’m not sure if Joshua played a role, but it seems the pastors of America’s fastest growing megachurch, Without Walls International Church, is having a bit of a crisis of leadership. Married pastors Randy and Paula White announced at last Thursday night’s service that they were getting a divorce.
Read moreNews For the Week Ending November 23, 2007
This is a summary of the news items that didn’t merit a full post, but were worth a comment due either to their weidness or importance. These all happened during Thanksgiving week of 2007. We’ve got people trying to remove tire lug nuts with shot guns, and more Episcopalian shennanigans.
Read moreLions for Lambs
Lions for Lambs begins after two determined students at a West Coast University, Arian (Derek Luke) and Ernest (Michael Pena), follow the inspiration of their idealistic professor, Dr. Malley (Robert Redford), and attempt to do something important with their lives. But when the two make the bold decision to join the battle in Afghanistan, Malley is both moved and distraught. Now, as Arian and Ernest fight for survival in the field, they become the string that binds together two disparate stories on opposite sides of America. In California, an anguished Dr. Malley attempts to reach a privileged but disaffected student (Andrew Garfield) who is the very opposite of Arian and Ernest. Meanwhile, in Washington D.C. the charismatic Presidential hopeful, Senator Jasper Irving (Tom Cruise), is about to give a bombshell story to a probing TV journalist (Meryl Streep) that may affect Arian and Ernest’s fates.
Read more28 Weeks Later
Six months after the rage virus was inflicted on the population of Great Britain, the US Army helps to secure a small area of London for the survivors to repopulate and start again. But not everything goes to plan.
Read moreHotels Now Offering Sex Kits Instead of Bibles?
This must be from the “are you shitting me” category. Krazy Kristian Kook, Don Wildmon, of the American Family Association is now warning that hotels are taking out the Gideon Bibles in favor so “intimacy kits.” I never really expected to write a post that included Goldfish, sex and iPods as tags. Leave it to good old Don to come through though.
Read moreCold In Tampa
It remains dry, but it’s been very cool the past few nights, getting into the 40’s. There could be some frost tonight north of here and inland. Lay’s nephews are over to spend the night, as two of them have birthday’s next week. We won’t be here. Lay and I will be traveling to North Carolina. While I’m taking the whole week off, Lay will be working Monday and Tuesday, so unfortunately, we’ll be on the road Wednesday. I am not looking forward to that.
Read moreJames Holsinger Preparing for Recess Appointment?
Box Turtle Bulletin and other blogs are reporting that James Holsinger has resigned from the Board of Directors at Asbury Seminary, and is telling his pals that Bush will give him a recess appointment as United State Surgeon General.
Read moreN.C. Baptist State Convention Boots Myers Park Baptist
The North Carolina State Baptist Convention claims that it allows for autonomy for their local churches, and has only a few requirements for membership in state convetion…mainly that you send money and hate homosexuals. Well, the members of Myers Park Baptist Church had decided to be Christian rather than Southern Baptist in their thinking, so today the Executive Committee found this church is not “in friendly cooperation with the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina” and today the membership as a whole gave Myers Park Baptist the boot. The decided to not go without comment…
Read moreNews of the week ending Nov. 9, 2007
Tidbits of news from the week ending Friday, November 9, 2007. It includes a story on the discovery of another grow house in Polk County, a Palmetto man shooting himself and blaming a gang, a Tampa rapper who raps about guns hides in the ladies room when gun play breaks out, and man in Tampa throws bricks through the neighbors windows.
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