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News For The Week Ending Dec. 27, 2007

December 28, 2007September 29, 2018 B. John 467 Views 1 Comment Robbery, scents, Ohio, scientist, Fred Phelps, Septic Tank, Columbus, string theory, Time, Tiger, Westboro Baptist Church, Vodafone, Bluetooth headset, Wendy-039s, cell phone, Christmas Eve, physics, San Francisco Zoo

Here’s our last installment of the weekly tid bits for 2007. We’ve got a guy stuck in his septic tank on Christmas Eve. And leave it to Fred Phelps to end the year on some wing-nuttery as he blames the tiger attack in San Francisco on gay people. A wyoming woman stabbed her husband for opening presents early, and a bluetooth headset and cell phone foiled a robbery in Columbus, Ohio. We also have some Spanish scientists postulating that time might be slowing down.

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Hunger In America

December 10, 2007September 29, 2018 B. John 374 Views 0 Comments Christian Science Monitor, Appalachia, food insecure, Hunger

I came across an article at the Christian Science Monitor on-line today about hunger in America. I spent some evenings working in the homeless shelter in Winston-Salem some years ago, and have, as a result of that experience, developed some perspective on the problems of poverty and homelessness in America. I wish I had some solutions, but I don’t…just a sense of what the world is really like.

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Thanksgiving Summary

December 2, 2007September 29, 2018 B. John 325 Views 0 Comments thanksgiving, Boone, North Carolina, Blowing Rock

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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And the Walls Came Tumbling Down

November 27, 2007 B. John 330 Views 1 Comment Paula White, Paula White Ministries, Randy White, Without Walls International Church

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.

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Lions for Lambs

November 18, 2007 B. John 423 Views 0 Comments Tom Cruise, Drama, Meryl Streep, Political Thriller, Robert Redford

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.

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28 Weeks Later

November 18, 2007 B. John 411 Views 1 Comment Drama, Sci-Fi, 28 Weeks Later, Horro, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, Thriller

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.

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Cold In Tampa

November 17, 2007September 29, 2018 B. John 359 Views 0 Comments Blowing Rock, Appalachian Ski Mountain, Sugar Mountain, Weather, thanksgiving, Boone

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.

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N.C. Baptist State Convention Boots Myers Park Baptist

November 14, 2007September 29, 2018 B. John 375 Views 0 Comments North Carolina Baptist State Convention, North Carolina, Charlotte, Myers Park Baptist Church

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…

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American Gangster

November 6, 2007 B. John 356 Views 0 Comments Drama, Ridley Scott, Russell Crowe, American Gangster, Denzel Washington, Gangsters, Thriller, Crime

Nobody used to notice Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington), the quiet driver to one of the inner city’s leading black crime bosses. But when his boss suddenly dies, Frank exploits the opening in the power structure to build his own empire and create his own version of the American Dream. He comes to rule the inner-city drug trade, flooding the streets with a purer product at a better price. Richie Roberts (Russell Crowe) is an outcast cop close enough to the streets to feel a shift of control in the drug underworld. Roberts believes someone is climbing the rungs above the known Mafia families and starts to suspect that a black power player has come from nowhere to dominate the scene.

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Mr. Brooks

November 6, 2007 B. John 452 Views 0 Comments Drama, Bruce A. Evans, Demi Moore, Kevin Costner, Serial Killer, William Hurt, Thriller, Crime

After Mr Brooks (Costner) receives a “Man of the Year” award, we find out he is a serial killer haunted by the voice of his alter ego inside his head.

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Frontline-The Undertaking

October 31, 2007 B. John 356 Views 0 Comments death, dying, funerals, Frontline, Funeral Homes, PBS, Undertakers

I watched most of an excellent and touching Frontline episode last night on PBS. It was called The Undertaking. Thomas Lynch is a writer and poet in a small town in Michigan, and he’s also a funeral director. His family has been caring for the dead in his hometown for three generations. Given my background, this certainly caught my attention. I was not disappointed.