Governor Corzine seriously injured

Apr 13th, 2007 Posted in General | one comment »

Wow – I couldn’t believe that the NJ Governor was in a car crash on the way to the Imus/Rutgers meeting. Kinda makes you wonder if they had just had a meeting between the team and Imus in NYC and left Sharpton and all that out of it, would the meeting have ended up at the Governor’s mansion?

However, it’s being reported now that Corzine wasn’t wearing a seatbelt and some people are already looking forward to the Governor getting a ticket.

NJ Governor Gravely Injured

I hope they find that red truck and give whoever was driving that vehicle a ticket too.

As for the Imus/Rutgers meeting, sorry I have nothing to say. I saw the team on Oprah yesterday. Oprah asked them leading questions, something like – did Imus steal your moment of glory. What moment of glory? They lost the game, didn’t they. They weren’t coming home to any victory celebration, ya know. The coach said it was never her or the team that called for Imus firing but because people are speaking up, it shows “moral fiber.” So — I’m like done with this topic.

I think real moral fiber would have been to say it was not a racial slur.

The Keep It Real Don Imus Poll

Apr 10th, 2007 Posted in General | 5 comments »



The Keep It Real Don Imus Poll

I really think

Don Imus’ remarks were stupid and inappropriate, but not meant to be degrading.
it was a deliberate racial attack meant to be demeaning.
it was meant as comedy, but it wasn’t funny
it was meant as comedy and it was funny.
it was offensive because I never talk that way.
it was offensive because he’s white.
it was wrong because he didn’t know the people he was talking about.
it’s degrading to women.
he went too far, but I love Imus anyway
it wasn’t offensive but I hate Imus anyway.
he should just resign.
he should be fired.
he should be forgiven.
he should be persecuted til the day he dies.
Other

Ancient Mariner and Pandaemonium

Apr 4th, 2007 Posted in Literature | 3 comments »

The Ancient Mariner is on the site, with an audio reading courtesy of Librivox.

There’s a movie I want to get from Amazon called Pandaemonium, which stars Linus Roache as STC and explores his friendship with the Wordsworths. Here is a movie that was listed as one of the top 10 films of 2000 but wasn’t widely distributed in the USA because of a bad review. Samantha Morton, who played Jane Eyre in the A&E miniseries (she was a great Jane), plays Sara Coleridge.

So, “I gots to see this,” even though I saw another review that claimed it was a little absurd that they go around spouting poetry. I do that myself at odd moments, courtesy of STC and other poets of great fame, of course. “Unhand me, greybeard loon.” You don’t even need a greybeard to get me to say that one.

Reely

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Favorite Bible Verse

Apr 1st, 2007 Posted in General | 3 comments »

Today, we brought in our favorite bible verses to bible class. Here’s mine:

Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but exhort him as if he were your father. Treat younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity. ~ 1 Timothy 5:1-2 (NIV)

I wasn’t asked why it was a favorite although I did want to get to say something about it, particularly since a lack of respect and concern for each other and God is one of the most common complaints these days.

I think that verses 1-2 of Paul’s letter to Timothy are really good and if people realized that, they would be changing the world little by little, day-by-day. Treat everyone with the concern you would have for your own family.

Paul does go on to qualify his teachings, some of which just is strange to me and he loses me, though I don’t think it detracts from the way I see the first two verses.

I think Victor Hugo got it in Les Miserables. The Bishop, M. Myriel, doesn’t get Jean Valjean arrested for stealing the silver, despite Madame Magloire’s distress over the theft. Myriel doesn’t think the silver belonged to him in the first place. Its purpose was to help a poor man, and Myriel uses the opportunity to ransom Jean Valjean’s soul. And — the Bishop gives Jean Valjean the silver candlesticks too.

He says: “Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to evil, but to good.”

He treated Jean Valjean as a brother, and it turned Valjean’s life around.

Yeah, I know it doesn’t always work out that way, but I still think when we focus on the times it doesn’t, instead of the times it does, we get lost.

The real purpose of 1 Timothy 5 is to give instruction on how to treat widows and elders. He says: “If anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.” But his purpose in saying so seems to be so less people end up on the needy list. Then he goes on to disqualify sinners outright and try to marry off young widows.

I don’t know if I’m right but to me, the Bishop’s actions sure seemed a lot more like what Jesus would do and want us to do.

Paul goes on in 1 Timothy 6 to give us a lot more advice which has entered into our common vocabulary as these famous expressions:

6:7 For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it.

6:10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil.

6:12 Fight the good fight of the faith.

It was a nice Palm Sunday service today. Hope yours was too.

Reely

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