Question: Was getting my nails done last night and they had the TV on tuned to the news (as always). You can only hear bits and pieces due to the noise and activity going on. They were showing Obama’s “speech” at the memorial service and at the end of the segment, I they showed him saying, “It’s a good thing Michele met me first because she loves Stevie Wonder.” Did he actually say that as part of this service or was that taken from some other speech at some other venue?
someone pointed out it’s a lot easier (or lot less painful, to put it in other words) to read it than to watch it. 🙂 What’s with the lecture-y tone he always cops. Is that just me or is he really always just lecturing us?
Linda, yes, he did say it. It was in response to the Police Chief quoting from a Stevie Wonder song. George W. Bush’s speech was the speech the people of Dallas needed to hear yesterday. It isn’t painful to watch. Even on CNN yesterday a black pastor said he did not agree with Bush politically but went on and on about the speech and how good it was. I did not see it but I heard that when President Bush took Michelle Obama’s hand during the singing of a song that the look on her face would have scorched paint.
I miss him, too (with apologies to Ricky), especially his respect for — and lack of condescension toward — us riffraff commoners sporting dunce hats at times. 🙂
Donna J, Though Little Bush was born in New England to Yankee parents and went to prep school and college in New England, he went to elementary school and Jr. High in Midland, Texas. If he had been a condescending Yankee in the 50s in West Texas, bad things would have happened to him. Even old Trump would have better manners if he had gone to Jr. High in Midland or Odessa.
Reading people’s comments online is an interesting and sometimes troubling study in human nature. And reading comments by professing Christians on Christian sites (as well as other sites) can be a discouraging study in applied theology.
The immediate, shoot-from-the-hip nature of comments on websites and social media is what can often make them minimally helpful or even destructive. Comments can easily be careless. That’s why we must heed Jesus’s warning: “on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak” (Matthew 12:36). This caution makes commenting serious business to God. …
How should we comment?
* Seldom (showing restraint) “When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but whoever restrains his lips is prudent” (Proverbs 10:19). …
* Slowly: “Let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger” (James 1:19). …
* Graciously: “Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person” (Colossians 4:6). …
When should we comment?
(To thank, encourage, clarify or clarify – gently).
And:
Do Not Start Fires
In closing, let us remember this sober word from the apostle James:
The tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell. (James 3:6)
James wrote this warning to Christians. Christians set fires in comment threads. Let us not set fires through careless words for which we will be held accountable. Rather, let us restrain our lips/fingers, and when we do speak, may it only be to give grace to those who hear.
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Of course, we will not adopt his proposed solution. However, I love it when someone will speak the truth, especially when it is a truth no one else will utter.
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Question: Was getting my nails done last night and they had the TV on tuned to the news (as always). You can only hear bits and pieces due to the noise and activity going on. They were showing Obama’s “speech” at the memorial service and at the end of the segment, I they showed him saying, “It’s a good thing Michele met me first because she loves Stevie Wonder.” Did he actually say that as part of this service or was that taken from some other speech at some other venue?
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Here’s the text of the speech: https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/07/12/remarks-president-memorial-service-fallen-dallas-police-officers
someone pointed out it’s a lot easier (or lot less painful, to put it in other words) to read it than to watch it. 🙂 What’s with the lecture-y tone he always cops. Is that just me or is he really always just lecturing us?
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Haven’t you been paying attention?
Dunce cap down south!
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Linda, yes, he did say it. It was in response to the Police Chief quoting from a Stevie Wonder song. George W. Bush’s speech was the speech the people of Dallas needed to hear yesterday. It isn’t painful to watch. Even on CNN yesterday a black pastor said he did not agree with Bush politically but went on and on about the speech and how good it was. I did not see it but I heard that when President Bush took Michelle Obama’s hand during the singing of a song that the look on her face would have scorched paint.
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I miss W.
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You never doubted that he loved his country
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I miss him, too (with apologies to Ricky), especially his respect for — and lack of condescension toward — us riffraff commoners sporting dunce hats at times. 🙂
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My only quarrel with W is that he didn’t use his veto pen.
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Donna J, Though Little Bush was born in New England to Yankee parents and went to prep school and college in New England, he went to elementary school and Jr. High in Midland, Texas. If he had been a condescending Yankee in the 50s in West Texas, bad things would have happened to him. Even old Trump would have better manners if he had gone to Jr. High in Midland or Odessa.
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He was smart then. 🙂 But he also was pretty down to earth, I never felt he was very full of himself, which is refreshing nowadays.
Interesting post on how Christians should behave on social media or online in general:
http://www.desiringgod.org/articles/how-should-christians-comment-online
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Reading people’s comments online is an interesting and sometimes troubling study in human nature. And reading comments by professing Christians on Christian sites (as well as other sites) can be a discouraging study in applied theology.
The immediate, shoot-from-the-hip nature of comments on websites and social media is what can often make them minimally helpful or even destructive. Comments can easily be careless. That’s why we must heed Jesus’s warning: “on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak” (Matthew 12:36). This caution makes commenting serious business to God. …
How should we comment?
* Seldom (showing restraint) “When words are many, transgression is not lacking, but whoever restrains his lips is prudent” (Proverbs 10:19). …
* Slowly: “Let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger” (James 1:19). …
* Graciously: “Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person” (Colossians 4:6). …
When should we comment?
(To thank, encourage, clarify or clarify – gently).
And:
Do Not Start Fires
In closing, let us remember this sober word from the apostle James:
The tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell. (James 3:6)
James wrote this warning to Christians. Christians set fires in comment threads. Let us not set fires through careless words for which we will be held accountable. Rather, let us restrain our lips/fingers, and when we do speak, may it only be to give grace to those who hear.
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For the most honest, intelligent and comprehensive analysis of the BLM/police issue, we can count on John Derbyshire.
http://www.unz.com/jderbyshire/after-dallas-time-to-accept-the-reality-of-race/?highlight=John+Derbyshire
Of course, we will not adopt his proposed solution. However, I love it when someone will speak the truth, especially when it is a truth no one else will utter.
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