The Saturday Edition

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It is good to be back in the groove again. Saturday has been such a restful day. Had a nice long nap this afternoon, and watched "Amazing Grace" on DVD. I hope it was a good day for everyone else as well.

The Friday Quiz ANSWERS

1. Bird = Prairie chicken
    One species of prarie chicken is on the endangered species list.
2. Duck = Mallard
    Common in many states, especially in the West.
3. First animal = Armadillo
    Most often seen around here as road kill.
4. Second animal = Common ferret
    Gaining popularity as a house pet.

Quotable and the Not So Quotable Quotes

"Your worst days are never so bad that you're beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you're beyond the need of God's grace." ~Jerry Bridges

The Poet's Corner

from my own childhood...

        "Daddy Why..."

"Please tell me why
That I cannot fly
Like a bird, oh so high,
In a cloudless blue sky?"

"I'll tell you why
When you're bigger," said I.

"Oh please, tell me now,
For I feel like the cow
That jumped over the moon."

"I'll tell you quite soon,
Maybe this afternoon
When I finish this tune,
You silly loon."

"Soon it will be June
And if I'm a loon
Then I'll fly to the moon
With your favorite tune
And leave it there!"

Remember to be in the church of your choice tomorrow

Friday Quiz

What game bird is this?


What kind of duck is this?


What kind of animal is this



What kind of animal is this?


Answers in tomorrow's post.

T.G.I.F. Day, Yay and Hooray!

Finally Friday and I can hardly wait to post the Friday Quiz! It has been a perfect day with sun, temperature, breeze and all just right to enjoy. The pumpkins for the AWANA Pumpkin Patch arrived at church yesterday in the cool of the evening, and there was plenty of help unloading an entire truckload. If the weather stays like it has been today, they will keep until Halloween.

Quotable and the Not So Quotable Quotes

"Forgiveness is like the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it." ~Mark Twain

This is quite possibly Samuel Clements' greatest work, certainly a legacy in itself.
"An author, philosopher, or statesman can have no greater tribute than to be quoted while he is still lives, and no greater legacy than to be quoted after his death." Therefore I quote myself.

The Week's Best Link(s)

The problem I am having in getting links to work is that I am such a slow learner. It is the html code that is the hangup and I am not that bright when it comes to writing code. I have one I would love to post. If you haven't seen it, "when the wife don't listen" is an absolute must. Copy and paste will work if you are a friend on facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/ronald.allan.richardson?ref=profile#/posted.php?id=1746422807&share_id=172012840539&comments=1#s172012840539

The Friday Quiz

Deciding how long to make the quiz is one thing I have not set in stone. I want to keep it short, but not too short. Your comments would be appreciated. This week is is entitled, "native North American species". Can you identify them? This week I will try to make each one its own posting, or at least a separate one following this.

The First Day of the Rest Our Lives

Quotable and the Not So Quotable Quotes

What strange dreams we people, then awake and cannot remember.



A Thought to Share

Someone objected that "all the carnivores God created could not mean that there was no death in the days before Adam sinned" in one of the discussion groups.

Since we have no eyewitness record of all the animals that lived before the flood, we cannot look up what the animals were in that era. Genesis only records the lives (and deaths) of humans in those early years. Is it safe to assume just because an animal is alive today it was also alive then?

Fossils of carnivores of the mammalian varieties are not found in early strata. All early reptiles have legs, (no snakes until later). This suggests a later creation of animals as we know them today after the animals Noah released from the ark had a chance to establish themselves without predators.

I cannot recall seeing teeth in the jaws of fossil dinosaurs, except in drawings as the artist's concept. Has anyone reading this seen them? I have heard it said that they only ate plants, but cannot speak to this. One upright reptile yielded possession of its body to the devil to tempt Eve. Can we assume it ate some of the fruit to prove to Eve that she would not die?

Contents in the stomachs of the frozen mammals (from the so called Ice Age) has only turned up plants.

There is so much in the way of missing records, both in the fossil record and in the Bible that we probably should not assume one way or the other. However, predators just perhaps did not exist until after the Flood.

Humor

Courtroom on Record - Actual records of court proceedings

Attorney: And what terminated your marriage?

Witness: Death.

Attorney: Will you please specify whose death?

Witness: The death of my husband.
________________________

Attorney: How many children do you have?

Witness: Nine.

Attorney: How many girls?

Witness: Nine

Attorney: How many boys?

Witness: Huh?

Attorney: I said how many boys do you have?

Witness: I done told you I had nine girls, that don't leave no room for no boys.
________________________

It's News to Me

The EPA is now concerning itself with small quantity chemicals entering the environment, "nanoformulations" such as sunscreen, that may or may not cause problems over the next few hundred years. The zinc oxide is sited as having an unknown effect on the environment. Research on the nanoforms is going to cost millions of dollars per year over the next decade, and already the National Institute of Science says EPA is not doing enough.

Zinc oxide? The Food and Drug Administration approved that ages ago for human consumption in supplements. If it could be harmful to the environment in nano quantities, what am I doing taking it in larger doses? Seems like they should stop checking the water at bathing beaches and start checking the effluent from our sewage treatment plants. Or perhaps supplements should be banned. Better yet, disband the EPA into nano particles.

Something New Has Been Added

In the time that I been on leave from posting I have been giving some thought as to what new format I can establish when I begin posting again. I would like to produce something that has something for everyone, some type of thing for every taste. So tonight I am giving a run-down on every topic I expect to write on a regular basis.

Quotable and the Not So Quotable Quotes

An author, philosopher, or statesman can have no greater tribute than to be quoted while he is still lives, and no greater legacy than to be quoted after his death.

The more you forget, the more life becomes filled with surprises.

A Thought to Share

Usually this will be something I have posted in a discussion group such as this from Tuesday:

In John chapter 3, Jesus addresses a Jewish leader, a member of their highest ruling authority, the Sanhedrin. Nicodemus came to Jesus by night, probably in secret, probably to find out if Jesus was the Messiah. He never got as far as asking his first question. Jesus made a statement about being born again that occupied the rest of their conversation. The rebirth to which Jesus was referring was the rebirth of the spirit.

Unless a person comes to the place of spiritual rebirth he will never enter into the kingdom of heaven. The spirit of a newborn baby is spiritually dead. Like a dead body, a dead spirit can do nothing on its own.

To demonstrate His grace, God, out of His love for us, sent His only son Jesus to die that our dead spirits may live. It is only through accepting God's gift, His Son Jesus, that our spirits receive life, and that life will never end.

Read about the encounter in Jesus own words in John 3.

Humor

A couple times a week I will post something I have read or heard. Rarely will I belabor you with a joke I have written.

A Midweek Guide

On Wednesday or Thursday something to inspire or encourage. This week I have nothing prepared.

The Poet's Corner

Once a week I will find or write a piece of doggerel for those who like poems. I will try to make this a Saturday thing.

The Sunday Sermonettte

I have often wondered what it would be like to preach a sermon. Maybe once a month, if you will allow, I would like to try some short expose`.

It's News to Me

Items that may be of interest in the news. Often I am the last to know, but if I pick up on something that everyone may not have heard, I will pass it on here.

The Week's Best Link(s)

This has to be good. I won't post one every week unless it is.

The Friday Puzzle or Quiz

I won't promise to make it easy, but I'll try not to make it super hard either.

So that ought to be enough to keep me hopping and I'll do my best to hop to it every day. Do come back.

There will be no post tonight. Sorry. 8-)

A Potpourri

STOP Universal Healthcare in the US...

"(2) Look at the DMV. Do you want government-run service in the ER? Your hospital WILL be affected, whether you're on a private or public plan.
"(3) Americans may wait months to receive care. Some patient's conditions will get worse."*

The Veterans Administration is a shining example of how our government handles patients needing healthcare. The VA Hospital I am most familiar is the Malcom Randall Medical Center in Gainesville, Florida. They operate no E.R. --too many people would die. Scheduled appointments are with your own assigned primary care provider once or twice a year, depending on the seriousness of any diagnosed condition. Notice they do not even refer to them as doctors. Many are physicians assistants.

These primary care "physicians" are in clinics scattered throughout the North Florida, South Georgia district, but you cannot get walk-in service if you get sick. You must drive to Gainesville, sign in at the Urgent Care desk and sit down and wait. Sometimes it is a two or three hour wait. If it is something that can be taken care of by prescription you go the the pharmacy and wait another hour or two. You are one of the lucky ones.

If you need to see a specialist, you go home and wait for a letter telling you when your appointment will be. This can be expected to be set for anywhere from two to six months down the road. How long do you suppose will be the wait when all citizens are in the program?

*from http://apps.facebook.com/causes/315632?m=a85d67ed

Stop sexual abuse towards children

While on the subject of righting wrongs and stopping that which should not have started in the first place... Child abuse should top the list. One deterrent is Amber Alert. Did you get an Amber Alert on your cell phone last night about 11PM? I didn't because my cell phone company doesn't offer it to people who do not have the internet on their phone. The larger cell phone companies are in the business of making money, not saving children. A friend of a friend got this message last night, "AMBER ALERT IN OSHAWA, FL - 3 YEAR OLD GIRL TAKEN BY MAN DRIVING NEWER SILVER TRUCK Ontario PLATE # 72B 381." I don't know where Oshawa is, but if I had been in that area I would still have been one of millions of Americans that did not get the message because cell phone companies are to cheap to install the necessary equipment to facilitate the use of Amber Alert for everyone. You can get online notification here: http://toolbar.inbox.com/lp/lp.aspx?tbid=80116&c=News&k=Amber%20Alerts&b=GGL_XT_ppc15_80116_05_02D_00_*GeoUSCA*_-Search-__amber%20alerts&s=awppc15&gclid=CM_cosC9s5wCFZZa2godsGXOnA

While posting links I have another one, since most of my readers come from facebook. This one speaks for itself. I will have to study html codes a little more to get links that work.

The 12 most annoying types of Facebookers

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/08/20/annoying.facebook.updaters/index.html

I found myself in the list in a couple of places. I will take up my causes in my blog not on facebook. I will continue to read all the status, posts, and comments as I have. I am not a "Lurker". People write them to be read, and they can filter who sees what.

Now for Some FUN

What color is a fresh blueberry on the inside?

Why does picking blackberries get a larger amount of stain on the hands than picking blueberries, yet eating blueberry pie will color the tongue more than blackberry pie?

Do you have your answers ready? Okay, lock them in and here we go!

Ripe, juicy blackberries do make a mess of the fingers that pick them. That is because the color that stains the fingers is in the juice. Not so with the blueberry. The blue color is almost entirely in the skin, locked within thick walled cells. In the process of cooking the color is released, staining everything it comes in contact with. This is also when the inside of the berry becomes blue. What color is it before it is cooked? A nondescript shade of light gray tinted slightly blue around the edges turning off white, then a very light beige as it approaches the center. The fresh juice is colorless.