Good morning!
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Oh, and one more thing,
200!
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Things are out of order this morning because it’s a milestone of sorts for us. This is post number 200.
And once again, I thank you all for coming along, and for what you add here. It has been a blessing to be a part of, and I hope we continue it.
Thank You All,
Allen
Wandering Views 
Good morning. QotD: If you had this week to do over again, what would you do differently?
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QoD: go to the doctor a day or two sooner (I went on Wednesday, so it couldn’t have been much sooner and still be this week)
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Call my son on the phone instead of sending him an email asking him to check in. Maybe I’ll do that now and save the week!
Ah, I should have sent my aunt a condolence letter. I spoke with her the day before my uncle died, but not since. That’s the biggest mistake.
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Grats on 200!
Pauline — Been following your medical tribulations, I hope you continue to feel better.
Qotd — Strangely, this week, not a thing.
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Nothing.
It’s Friday. You know what that means?
Not much for me. Paul Speranza, our local weather guru is going to tell the Lions how the winter is going to be. He missed it last year. He forecast a difficult January, but the entire winter was mild. He was correct, except for the mid-January.
We came home from Pigeon Forge yesterday. It.s a two hour drive, but it took us three because we stopped for breakfast and Elvera needed to stop by a grocery store for milk. I have learned over the years, that “just a jiff” has no meaning when she goes into a store.
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QoD; It hasn’t been a great week but I can’t think of anything I could have done to make it better.
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QoD: Fantastic conference with believers from eight different nations. Flying to Orlando tomorrow for another conference with believers from 120 nations. So it is an exceptional week. Wouldn’t change a thing,
Especially since I get to top it off by coaching my third grandchild into the world!
Adios
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What an exciting week, Adios!
QoD: I wouldn’t have stayed secretly upset with my husband for 48 hours, waiting until Tuesday morning to tell him about something that happened Sunday morning that really bothered me. 😦
But a lot of beautiful things have happened in our relationship since we had that good heart-to-heart Tuesday morning. I’m very thankful for the peace and blessings that God has been faithful to grant to us.
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Good to hear, 6 Arrows.
Along with Pauline’s travails (I seem to be thinking now of the titles of one of those old silent films, “Perils of Pauline”), KBells also is having lots of headaches which are no fun.
It’s Friday and that’s always good. Trash is out for pickup but now it’s off to the veterinarian with Cowboy who has some sort of dental issue going on. I’ll just head in to work after that as I’m thinking he may be staying there for the day if they can fix what needs to be fixed.
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Did you see where two Iranian jets fired on one of our drones?
They couldn’t bring it down.
If I were a fighter pilot and couldn’t bring a drone down, I wouldn’t return to base.
😆
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Random,
I responded to you on yesterday’s thread about the books, but I thought of something else afterwards. As I mentioned, one of the books you agreed to read is C.S. Lewis’s That Hideous Strength, but an alternative if you’d rather would be Lewis’s The Abolition of Man. That one should also be in the library.
Also, I said something about Barry propagating the usual stereotypes of Calvinist theology in the Roger Williams book, but it occurred to me after I posted that, that I should also acknowledge that the Roman Catholic, G.K. Chesterton, whom I asked you to read, does the same thing. In fact, I recall one place in The Everlasting Man in which he refers to “the vinegar of Calvinism. In fact, there are very few non-Calvinists, whether Christian or not, who fairly represent Calvinism (or Calvin or the Puritans). C.S. Lewis is a rare exception. I think, perhaps, his deep knowledge of Calvinist literature, such as the poetry of Donne, Herbert, and Milton might account for that.
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Chas,
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Glad to hear Random was not too disturbed by the storm. Now to hear from NJL. Concerned and would like to hear if she is okay or if she needs something or if she wants to just fly out of the area for a while until they can straighten things out.
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QOD: I definitely should have gone with the candidate I wanted to rather than the candidate I did. Virgil Goode was who I thought I should but then I second guessed myself. That is why we are in the predicament we are in, in my opinion. Too much compromise, not enough voting for somebody of character.
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Thank you for your transparency, Mumsee.
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I see on Drudge that Petraeus has resigned from the CIA.
Yesterday afternoon, I went to the White House and asked the President to be allowed, for personal reasons, to resign from my position as D/CIA. After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair. Such behavior is unacceptable, both as a husband and as the leader of an organization such as ours. This afternoon, the President graciously accepted my resignation.
Something strange about this. From what I’ve seen, there’s no evidence that someone outed him. Nobody is suing him for paternity. His wife isn’t divorcing him. It just occurs to him that since he had an affair, the right thing to do would be to resign. And the President graciously accepted.
Just like that.
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OK Folks. I haven’t really been with you for a while. Several things to share.
1. I met a man who LISTENS. I said quite a while back that for Christmas I wanted tickets to Cirque du Soleil Saltimbocca. The other day the ad came back on TV and I made a comment. Mr. P. said don’t worry. I already bought the tickets. We went last night. It was as good as I remember Allegria being. BG and Mr. P both enjoyed MY Christmas present!
2. I married a man who cannot give good directions. We decided to meet somewhere in Pensacola (since he works over there) and park one vehicle and take the other to the Bayfront Auditorium, also saving on parking. He told me to come in on Hwy 98, go past the Naval Hospital and at the second light turn left and I would see a gas station and he would meet me there. What he should have said is “At the second light you will see First Navy Bank and directly behind that is PennAir Federal Credit Union. Go past those and go through the gate and I will meet you in the parking lot of the Navy Exchange. That gas station? It was a couple of gas pumps off to the side.
3. The economy has obviously effected Santa Clause or he has gone Green or something. This morning I was stopped at a traffic light. I glanced in the rear view mirror and there was a man with white hair and a white beard. I thought he sort of looked like Santa. I glanced back again and lo and behold he was wearing a red fur suit with white cuffs and collar. As we turned left and I glanced in my side mirror he was driving a red Prius!!!!
That was my chatty stuff. Now for the Gloom and Doom I can’t voice anywhere else. The Election is having DISASTEROUS results. I have received quite a few emails from people who were coming to look at property saying they are afraid to spend any money. I have had a large farmer explain to me why food prices are going to sky rocket in the Spring. I talked to one lady who works in the medical field in PA. Wednesday her company laid off 100 people. She narrowly missed it. Her husband is in public safety and is going to have to look at early retirement to protect his pension. She said they are in their early 50’s. She was nothing but gloom and doom and was very upset over the election results. Remember she lives in PA!!!! She said she didn’t know anyone who voted for Obummer. Just about everyone I have spoke with in the last 2 or 3 days have had a hopeless outlook.
Stocks are about to get dumped to avoid the higher tax rate and to take advantage of being able to claim a loss this year or break even. Just the little corner I am seeing is grinding to a halt.
In other news, there isn’t much I can do about it except paste a smile on my face and pretend everything is going to be OK.
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I thought the same thing Chas
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So Chas,
What do you think it was? The big story is he won’t be attending his scheduled testimony before the House investigating Benghazi. It’s all just too coincidental. I see 2 options.
1. He was pressured to resign, with the affair used as a threat, to remove him and keep him from testifying to Congress.
2. He didn’t want to testify and lie like the rest, so this was his out.
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Jennifer Griffith on FoxNews reports that it had nothing to do with the Benghazi incident. Nothing at all.
But he will not be testifying.
But Congress has authority to supena private citizens.
Sometimes it happens that way.
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Kim, tell those people who e-mail you that this is just the time to get locked in to low cost loans for real property that has intrinsic value. If the government keeps printing money, they will be able to pay off their property with cheap dollars.
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Such a patient bunch. It’s been almost 10 hours since Chas said “It’s Friday. You know what that means?” Now I am finally here to say, “Yes I do!
Kim- Oh thou bearer of ill tidings! We are trying to sell a 120 year old house in a rural town and you insinuate another down turn in housing sales. I guess we’ll have a harder time!
Mumsee- I think you should have voted for Goode for all the good it did voting for Romney. I am all for keeping our indirect voting, but think it is time to reform the Electoral College. When I see how red the map looks, I wonder how many areas of the blue states went for Romney.? Perhaps it is time to make each state’s electoral vote proportional in some way like in Maine (and I think Nebraska).
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Chas, you are part of the reason there is wisdom in the elders! What a GREAT way to present it.
Peter, there is the answer to your real estate dilemma. Someone will be able to OWN a piece of HISTORY for less in real dollars than you did. Rates have never been lower. Do you have your home listed with a real estate agent. There is a new marketing trend where you schedule deductions every week or so in hundred or two hundred dollar increments. It puts your house back on the “hot sheet” every week. Email me if you still have my email and I will send you the plan. There are lots of ways to get it sold.
Also consider that when you sell lower you are also buying lower.
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Peter,
Everyone talks about reforming the Electoral College when the election doesn’t go their way (the Democrats were complaining about it during the two Bush elections), but I don’t really see that changing anything. At this point, the country seems to be split about 50/50, each side being the polar opposite of the opposing side philosophically and ideologically. And if things continue the course they’re on, the socialist, atheistic left will only get larger and the traditional, free market, Judeo-Christian right will get smaller. I think the only hope for the nation is a work of God prompted by repentance, reformation, and revival in the church.
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Kim- We are with a realtor (the busiest around, supposedly) and have the price set low enough so we can sell but still get a few $. We might break even if we get our bottom price. (I never had you email that I recall.)
Ree- agreed.
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Following up on Kim’s post (of 4:12), I was talking with my veterinarian today — who is, essentially, the owner of a small business — and he has an equally discouraging outlook following this election. Small businesses have not had it good — the future looks even more burdensome.
And his son recently graduated med school with top-of-his-class honors — but he’s now also re-thinking his previous path to becoming a practicing physician with government health care now on track to take over.
Housing has just begun to (somewhat) come back where I live. But it’s tenuous. I’m worried that this administration won’t change course and we’ll be in for a “double-dip” recession.
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Ree:
I stopped at my library today. The following books have shipped: That hideous strength and Heretics/Orthodoxy (two books included in one volume). When they arrive (assuming they do), I will start reading them. Assuming I am still alive and a terrible earthquake tsunami does not strike Whidbey Island in the meantime.
I presume that if I read enough Christian books, eventually (the Bible alone having failed to do the job) I will be converted? Or perhaps I am disobedient and have closed my heart and have declared myself “over God,” or some such?
You said, Barry propagating the usual stereotypes of Calvinist theology in the Roger Williams book and In fact, there are very few non-Calvinists, whether Christian or not, who fairly represent Calvinism (or Calvin or the Puritans).
I confess that I do not understand Calvinism. If very few Christians understand Calvinism, does that mean that very few Christians will be saved? If “yes,” Christianity is a very dour religious belief indeed. If “no,” than I fail to see the point of Calvinism and the point of fretting about understanding it or not
My stereotype of Calvinism (keeping in mind that I do not understand it) is that we (humans) have no free will), so if I am damned by not being a Christian, that was God’s purpose and intention all along. He apparently created me all along for the purpose of seeing me suffer in Hell. Groovy God!
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