Puritan Books has a PDF download of a book apparently called New Testament Commands that lists 1,050 commands given in the New Testament. I’m not certain who wrote the book, as the site doesn’t include the copyright information (if there was any – many of their books are quite old). I did find the same [...]
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There are all kinds of strange holidays these days. Most of them I’ve never heard of and don’t care to celebrate. One I just learned about and will definitely celebrate is coming up on March 15. It is the fourth annual Eat a Tasty Animal for PETA Day. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, [...]
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Half of all babies [in the United Kingdom] will be born to unmarried mothers by 2012 if present trends continue, says new research that suggests the rapid erosion of moral and religious taboos. Moreover, fewer than half of families will consist of married couples and up to a third could be lone parents, said Dr [...]
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One Soldier’s Story, by Senator Bob Dole. It is a fairly quick read at just shy of 300 pages and is an interesting look back at his growing up in Russell, Kansas, going off to college, enlisting in the Army, training at several places around the country, and finally being shipped off to Italy near [...]
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One of the many things that strikes me as odd about the Toledo area is the way that gasoline prices fluctuate. I’m not talking about prices being, in general, high, as that’s not a local phenomena. What is, or at least appears to be a local thing is the way that gas prices move. It [...]
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brrreeeport Tagged. See his blog for what that means.
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Mike McBride rants justifiably about Eli Publications, who sent him a subscription plea more blatantly disguised as an invoice for a subscription to the magazine Mac Administration than is usually the case. I’ve not seen this one specifically, but I have seen others that are more obvious.
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One other thing I discovered on my trip to Europe – the gentlemen in the United terminal at Detroit’s airport does a truly outstanding job of shining shoes. My dress shoes were looking a bit worn, as I haven’t found a good shoe repair shop in the Toledo area yet. I had time on my [...]
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So here it is, 5 am on the morning after I get back from a few days in Europe, and I’m dog-tired yet wide awake. My flight left Frankfurt, Germany at 8 am local time, which is 2 am in the Eastern time zone. I was up about three hours before that to make sure [...]
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I just got back from a few days in Europe on business. Even all the way across the pond, I learned that when Vice President Dick Cheney means business, he MEANS BUSINESS. Turns out he was hunting Saturday and accidentally shot one of his friends who was hunting with him. Whittington “came up from behind [...]
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