54 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 10-8-15”

  2. Morning Chas. I am realizing that I have to be up early tomorrow to head for market. Anyone have any ideas of what I should do for Christmas? It can be the question of the day. I don’t have enough friends here to stay for the five week break. There are two weeks when nothing is open, not even the store. Too much stress right now, so I need a plan.

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  3. Come home Jo.
    Come home.
    Williamsburg would be a nice place to visit during the Christmas season.
    They have lots of Christmas shows at Pigeon Forge, Tenn.
    The National Christmas Tree in Washington is always pretty
    Several Baptists churches will present “The Messiah”.
    FBCH used to present The Messiah every year.. I learned last Sunday night that George Beverly Shea used to sneak in and sit down front after it started.

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  6. Everyone must be afraid they will be pounced upon by the mouse up there….the glowing eyes are a bit telling 😛
    It is a beautiful morning in the forest…calm and quiet
    Jo you should come home for Christmas break…any chance that could happen? Snow could be a good possibility if you come to Colorado….

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  9. You could stay here for five weeks. I certainly understand the need for solitude and we have a car for you to take shopping or you could sit in the back yard and watch the breeze blow. Or read to little folk. Or let little folk read to you. Or watch young adults be strange. Or stay a week and go to one of the other places. The place is open to you for a rest and time of refreshment.

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  10. Jo, I vote for your going to Idaho. From what I hear, no one there does anything more strenuous than raising a hand to put a bon bon in their mouth. It would be a great break!

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  11. Well, Jo, if you came here, you would have to put up with the cold, but we would be delighted. Now, I should warn you that for about a week and a half over Christmas, the hordes descend upon the house, and mayhem ensues; but there is always room for one more 🙂

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  12. Jo, your question needs a little more to work with. Do you have funds for travel to the states or to areas closer to you? Would you be interested in taking a course, either online or on site? Or does a cruise or two appeal? Or seeing a country by rail? Do you want someone to travel with or do you enjoy the luxury or doing things on your own schedule? We have a week at Hilton Head during that time of the year. Sometimes our son invites friends. My husband does not feel like getting out much. It would be nice to have a friend there to go out and about with, however, if my son does not have friends with him then I usually end up going some places with him. The unit we have works well for son’s friends who are sleeping bag on the floor/sleeper sofa and three guys sharing the bathroom types. But if you had a nearby place to stay, H8lton Head is a neat place to see at Christmas time. But with husband’s health difficulties this fall I am not sure we will even get to Hilton Head this year.

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  14. I see on Yahoo where a grandmother and grandson were swept away in their car. in SC. They were saved by clinging to a large red cross for five hours. I would have brought the link over, but there isn’t much to see. But it was an interesting item.

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  18. The celery is growing. I cut off the end of a store celery, planted it in water until roots grew and leaves started, and now it is in dirt. I should have celery for my breakfast again in short order, and if this works, husband need never buy celery again.

    Also, sprouting some grain somebody gave us. If that works according to plan, it should supplement the rabbit and chick food, saving substantially there as well. And I can grind some up and make some wheat grass drink for husband.

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  25. Now, now, Cheryl, the bears sleep in the winter. And the canvas tent has a stove to keep it toasty warm inside. And we have enough shovels, people can shovel their way to the house. Though we are not supposed to be getting much snow this winter, with El Nino, it should be balmy.

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  28. Hi Misten!

    Stealing this from Tammy who posted it on FB:

    From Nancy Pearcy’s post: Young People Today are Less Tolerant than their Parents
    “Indeed, people are more accepting of alternative lifestyles, minorities, women’s rights, etc. than at any time in the past. But political tolerance is a measure of how we handle disagreement. Tolerant people allow those they consider dangerous to society to speak and participate in the democratic process. Allowing one’s friends and political allies to speak is not a sign of tolerance. Young people may like more people, but they are especially intolerant of disagreement….

    It has always been the case, until recently, that younger people were the most tolerant….The fact that this trend has now reversed has significant implications. If it continues, we will grow less and less tolerant over time.

    Young people are now articulating a New Left philosophy about free speech and academic freedom….Those under 40 who have a “social justice” orientation are generally more intolerant than those who do not. Again, this relationship is not present for those over 40. Those over 40 tend to articulate classical liberal philosophies, which emphasize the right to expression, even for our political foes.

    Yes, the kids are intolerant. That is, they are intolerant if we define tolerance as researchers have for the past six decades, as a measure of willingness to extend basic democratic rights to those one finds most objectionable.”

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  36. Interesting study on government vs. private sector pay. My parents were right. 😉

    http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/10/study_finds_fed_workers_earn_78_more_than_private_sector_workers_on_average.html

    Federal workers earn 78% more than private sector on average

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    Factoring both salary and benefits, Edwards pointed to BEA data showing the average federal employee earns about $119,000 annually, compared to the private sector worker who earns $67,000 per year. When comparing just salaries, feds collect 50 percent bigger paychecks, Edwards said.

    The wage gap between the federal and private sectors has grown since the 1990s, Cato’s director of tax policy studies found. The divide has doubled since 1990, when it was just 39 percent. The growth, he said, came from not just raising pay levels and offering more generous benefits, but also a more “top-heavy” bureaucracy that routinely moves employees into higher salary brackets and redefines jobs as higher earning positions.
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  37. Guess who, kinda nice when your earnings don’t have to have any correlation with what your company produces in revenue, huh? The sky is the limit if you can use any money you want, no connection with earned revenue or even with tax revenue.

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  38. By the way- The MLB post season has begun, and a certain team from New York lost Monday night, so they are out. However, the Cubs won last night, and there are two teams from Missouri in the playoffs. One of them will be my new Gravatar in a little while.

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  40. Forgot to rell Kevin that my husband quit smoking last Oct. when he was in the hospital for a week with Mersa and they put a patch on him. He was treated for his Mersa by the team treating the Ebola patient at Emory. Another exciting time with a good outcome. 🙂

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  41. Kevin (If you’re around tonight) – To answer your question from last night – R has been on much better behavior for the past several months, seeming to be really trying to turn his life around. He has been going to AA meetings, & he has even apologized to Lee & me about his past behavior. One time he mentioned that he had “found God”, but I don’t know how real that was. (Lee & I both pray for him as if he were our son.)

    He has been very good about having time for Forrest, too, taking him every Saturday, & sometimes for a couple hours during the week. We believe that God is doing something in R’s life, & are grateful. We pray for Him to do great things in R’s life.

    Something I don’t know if I’ve mentioned here, but R did start a new job a few weeks ago, & is back to paying some child support. So far, so good.

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  42. Oh, yeah, Kevin. Grandchild #4 was born last October, #5 is due in April, and there is other news I’m not allowed to share on social media. I just don’t know why that is.

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  43. I see on TV that Putin played hockey. His team won and Putin scored seven goals.
    It reminds me of the time Chairman Mao swam ten miles up the Yangtze River. Stopping only once to teach someone to swim.

    😉

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  45. Peter, when I was in Chicago, companies sometimes had extremely clever advertising on the backs of CTA buses. This would have been in the mid-1990s. Well, one day one of them had a person who said, “Remember the Bulls of ’93?” Someone else said, “Yeah, and the (local team) of (year).” The third one said, “And the Cubs of ’08?”

    The Cubs have been a Chicago joke for so long I don’t know if anybody will know what to do if they win. But my husband did stay up late to watch the game. (He was watching it on his laptop or I might have watched with him.) But I hope they win the series.

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  53. Mumsee, I meant to respond further to one comment you made a couple of weeks ago, namely that some of your children have juvenile sexual maturity. I believe that sexual temptation is extremely different from repeated indulgence in sexual perversion.

    There is often discussion, when people say that people with homosexual attractions can refuse to indulge those attractions, on whether one would be willing to marry such a former homosexual. And to that I would say, a wife had sure better know exactly what she is getting into; she needs to be sure and doubly sure about her choice. (I don’t think lesbian attraction is necessarily the same sort of attraction as male homosexuality. Lesbian attraction often seems to be “opportunistic,” that is, a girl who has been attracted to boys in the past “falls in love” with her college roommate. If she later repents of her sexual sin, I wouldn’t see her necessarily as poorly equipped for marriage, any more than anyone with sexual sin in their past is poorly equipped for marriage. In other words, a ten-year streak of promiscuity is going to be extremely damaging for anyone, more so than one act of sexual sin.)

    But I think there is a difference, say, between (1) a man with homosexual desires who has never acted on them, comes to see even the desires as disordered, and after years of walking in holiness he seeks marriage to a woman he loves and desires and (2) a man who engaged in promiscuous sex with multiple other men over ten or twelve years, contracted HIV, and after repentance he decides that perhaps marriage will keep him from sinful sexual urges and so he decides to marry.

    Likewise, there is a difference between a juvenile with sinful sexual desires (possibly even those who have been acted out with other children close to his own age) and an adult who has knowingly sexually abused more than a dozen children under age seven. I think that the sexual desires should be taken very seriously indeed, but they are not criminal offenses that must keep such a person from ever having contact with a child. (Would I put such young people in babysitting situations as hormonal teenagers, no. But would I bar them from ever marrying and having children, no, not if they were ready for marriage.)

    Anyway, we aren’t necessarily big fans of the Bayly Brothers, but I think this blog post does a good job of showing how huge the problem is: http://baylyblog.com/blog/2015/09/pastoral-care-men-and-women-who-are-sexual-predators-against-children (Oh, by the way, elsewhere someone asks him why he made the distinction of child prey “not being related by blood or marriage” to the predator, and he clarifies that such opportunistic crimes as an older sibling hurting a younger sibling don’t necessarily correlate with ongoing pedophilia, statistically. I would imagine it might be more akin to men in prison with only men around being more likely to act out in homosexual ways, that being their only opportunity, but they aren’t necessarily “homosexuals” by innate urge.)

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  54. It is a huge problem. Much bigger than we know. And the fact that we are letting people out after such a short time does not help. Yes, the death penalty, actually done, puts an end to it with that individual. Of course, with all of the lies and corruption going on, it is actually difficult to find truth in the fiction, so the risk of putting to death somebody erroneously is there.

    Again, I don’t think we have enough information to make the call. And, perhaps, each of us would have handled it differently. But it is a problem and it is before us and we ought to be considering how we would handle it.

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