Archives for December, 2002
The dance continues
Jerry Jones knows all about Bill Parcells’ history of walking away from deals. So the Dallas Cowboys’ owner wants to announce an agreement as soon as he can. As of Tuesday, he was still waiting. And he probably will be until at least Thursday, despite reports that Parcells already has agreed to a four-year contract to coach the team. Maybe nothing more than logistics and the New Year’s holiday are in the way. Still, Parcells’ track record raises some doubt about whether the coach known for turning around woeful teams will try doing so with the Cowboys. Parcells jilted Tampa Bay twice and Atlanta once. Last year, he got so close with the Buccaneers that he signed a contract, and now Tampa Bay wants compensation from any team that hires him. The Bucs will present their case to the commissioner’s office Thursday.
This should be a great working relationship, two total control freaks working together. I don’t see any problems.
I was making fun of the University of Illinois Football team today in front of Tim Gonyou. To be honest, I haven’t followed the Fightin’ Illini since Jason Verduzco (who is now a Kansas City assistant coach) left. Anyways, for the record, Notre Dame was 10-2 when they faced and beat Florida in the 1992 Sugar Bowl.
New song from the David Crowder Band
Un-named demo but it sounds good.
Using Tax Dollars for Churches
The New York Times doesn’t like the idea of faith-based initiatives,
The faith-based initiative is also unconstitutional, and fundamentally unfair, because it allows tax dollars to be used in programs that discriminate in hiring. Churches will be able to hire only Christians for jobs paid for with federal funds, and synagogues and mosques could similarly refuse to hire nonbelievers. And taxpayer-financed religious programs can, by citing their religious beliefs, refuse to hire gay men and lesbians. We are already starting to see the troubling ways in which faith-based initiatives allow tax dollars to be used. In Georgia, a Jewish man is suing the United Methodist Children’s Home, which receives significant federal financing, for refusing to hire him as a therapist because of his religion. In Wisconsin, a federal judge earlier this year ordered a prison program to stop using direct government funds for a drug and alcohol addiction program that used Christian spirituality as part of its treatment.
Any comments from those who know this issue better than I do?
Vatican to release Nazi files
The Vatican is to open up its archives documenting relations with Nazi Germany, potentially lifting the lid on a controversial and secretive era in the Church’s history. Announcing plans to declassify the archives, officials said they hoped the move would end speculation that the Roman Catholic Church failed to speak out against the Holocaust. Pope Pius XII’s role in the Holocaust has proved controversial The archive contains documents relating to the years leading up to World War II. During that period, the Vatican’s ambassador to Berlin was the man who later went on to be pope during the war. Pope Pius XII, who led the Church from 1939 to 1958, has long been accused by Jewish groups of turning a blind eye as many Jews were marched off to concentration camps.
Rutgers, UNC-Chapel Hill Join Attack Against InterVarsity
This boggles the mind… I am not a huge fan of InterVarsity by any means but to say that you are discriminating against people because you have to be a Christian to lead a Christian organization is absurd. Mark Stern, attorney for the American Jewish Congress, says Rutgers’ actions are clearly illegal. “The notion, for example, that I [as a Jew] would have a right to be the head of a Christian group is absurd,” he said. “After the Boy Scout decision, this is a total no-brainer.”
We came, we saw, we had some great soup…
Hmm, sweet wonderful spicy soup. It wasn’t your usual pilgrimage to the hot soup. First of all, fellow blogger, Tim Gonyou was back from Toronto for a couple of days. Tim is not without his prejudices. He doesn’t like people from Indiana. Apparently people from Indiana are hicks. Even people living in Indianapolis. Of course, Tim is from Illinois. Tim is the only person I know of that has been dunked on by Kendall Gill. CORRECTION Tim Gonyou has posted a clarification statement in my comments. “I don’t hate people from Indiana. I’ve met some fine people from Indiana. Sure many of them were quite hick like, but what’s so wrong with that anyway. Some would describe it as “country charm”.” Sorry for any confusion.
Kelly and Brooke Graham are back from the Dominican Republic. Kelly is the chaplain for a private school there. For some reason the entire grade one class calls Kelly, “Anna Kournakova”. He doesn’t know why either.
It was a big day for Brooke, she had the soup today and was inducted into the Spicy Soup Hall of Fame. Congratulations! Brooke and Kelly are up for another week and then it is back to the Dominican Republic for another five months and then back to Saskatoon for a while (we hope). Brooke is tutoring kids down there while Kelly does some teaching and handles the chapels for the kids. I guess that means that she is Mrs. Anna Kournakova. If I had some blogging advice to give to Kelly, never post on your blog that your nickname is Anna Kounikova. Either way, it was good to see Kelly and Brooke. They looked a lot better than the rest of us who haven’t had the opportunity to lay on a beach all winter. Whatever people say to you Brooke, they can’t take away your place in the Soup Hall of Fame.
For those of you who don’t know, I worked with both Kelly and Brooke at Lakeview. Kelly is the one that introduced us to the soup. He is kind of a mix between the patron saint of the soup and the soup Godfather.
The Soup Calleth
Am off for coffee with my good friend Kelly Graham (El Pastoro) who is back from the Dominican Republic and then we go and attack the soup. Will post some pics of the soup and Kelly later. I have some great Kelly stories I’ll post later as well.
My grandmother would be proud
I just gave Wendy a Christmas gift (actually a stocking stuffer) I had hidden yet forgotten to give out. My mom said it used to happen every year. She (my grandmother) would say to my mom, “Marion, how did you like that [gift]” which mom would have no idea of what she was talking about so my grandmother would run to a closet or something and go and find some hidden and generally unwrapped gift. Yeah. I am a loser.
The End of Globalization?
Something to think about… from Urban Onramps
PLEIN SUD, the southern journey
2 Canadians discover the Americas in 13 different documentry episodes all available online.
Chile’s hole in the sky
“When the light is red, I don’t let my kids go out to play at all,” Liliana Navarro Torres said, referring to Kimberley, 6, and Jonathan, 4. “They don’t like it much, and sometimes it drives me crazy to have them running around the house, but that’s the way it has to be when you live here.”
“It’s a new way of living,” said Lidia Amarales Osorno, the regional director of Chile’s Health Ministry in Punta Arenas. “You’ll see the solar stoplight posted in supermarkets, offices and schools, and we even have an ozone brigade to raise consciousness about this problem.”
New York experiences renaissance
Young, educated New Yorkers are pouring into mainline churches and synagogues in such numbers that some ministers believe they are witnessing an awakening. “It is an awakening, it’s a revitalization,” exclaimed the Rev. Amandus J. Derr, senior pastor of St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Manhattan. His congregation has grown from 220 to 560 members in the past five years; 100 have joined in the year since September 11, 2001.
Foreign Governments Behind 9/11?
On 11 December 2002, the Senate and House Intelligence Committees released portions of their joint report on intelligence failures regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks. The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, on PBS, reported on the release that day. This is from the transcripts and is an interview with guest host Gwen Ifill and head of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Senator Bob Graham
GWEN IFILL: Senator Graham, are there elements in this report, which are classified that Americans should know about but can’t?SEN. BOB GRAHAM: Yes, going back to your question about what was the greatest surprise. I agree with what Senator Shelby said the degree to which agencies were not communicating was certainly a surprise but also I was surprised at the evidence that there were foreign governments involved in facilitating the activities of at least some of the terrorists in the United States.
I am stunned that we have not done a better job of pursuing that to determine if other terrorists received similar support and, even more important, if the infrastructure of a foreign government assisting terrorists still exists for the current generation of terrorists who are here planning the next plots.
To me that is an extremely significant issue and most of that information is classified, I think overly-classified. I believe the American people should know the extent of the challenge that we face in terms of foreign government involvement. That would motivate the government to take action.GWEN IFILL: Are you suggesting that you are convinced that there was a state sponsor behind 9/11?
SEN. BOB GRAHAM: I think there is very compelling evidence that at least some of the terrorists were assisted not just in financing — although that was part of it — by a sovereign foreign government and that we have been derelict in our duty to track that down, make the further case, or find the evidence that would indicate that that is not true and we can look for other reasons why the terrorists were able to function so effectively in the United States.
GWEN IFILL: Do you think that will ever become public, which countries you’re talking about?
SEN. BOB GRAHAM: It will become public at some point when it’s turned over to the archives, but that’s 20 or 30 years from now. And, we need to have this information now because it’s relevant to the threat that the people of the United States are facing today.
That is a lot different spin on things than I have been hearing.
Steinbrenner: Blah, blah, blah
Only George Steinbrenner comes down on his coaching staff after they got an aging Yankee team to the playoffs after battling injuries to a pitching staff all season long. My favorite comments came after the Yanks lost to the Angels and he could not comprehend how baseball would survive without the Yankees in the World Series.
Our Cabin Weblog- Recently listened to music
- David Gray – Be Mine October 19, 2008
- David Gray – December October 19, 2008
- David Gray – Knowhere October 19, 2008
- David Gray – Real Love October 19, 2008
- David Gray – Last Boat To America October 19, 2008
- Recently additions to my library
- Messy Faith: Daring to Live by Grace by A. J. Gregory October 28, 2008
- Rediscovering Church: The Story and Vision of Willow Creek Community Church by Lynne Hybels October 26, 2008
- The Teeth of the Tiger, A Novel by Tom Clancy October 26, 2008
- The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You by John C. Maxwell October 26, 2008
- The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy October 26, 2008
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