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"Seth Meyers chimed in: “Also, Centers for Disease Control, you sent the vaccine to Wall Street before schools and hospitals? Really!?! Were you worried the swine flu might spread to the Hamptons and St. Barts? These are the least contagious people in the world. They don’t even touch their own car-door handles."
"The gospel is the counterintuitive, joyous, exuberant news that Jesus has brought the unending, limitless, stunning love of God to even us.”
—Rob Bell, pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church in Grand Rapids."
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Yesterday I reset my default browser from Firefox to Google Chrome. Over the weeks I found myself turning more and more to Chrome, finding it cleaner and faster. While I like the extensibility of Firefox, that extensibility also slows things down a bit, and Firefox still has a tendency to use a lot of memory in operation. Chrome is simpler (dumber, some might say) which means that it runs fast and renders quickly.
There are some things that I miss from Firefox, especially in the right click menu options in the ability to copy different things to the clipboard, but the speed in Chrome finally has made it the browser of choice.
I have been trying for far too many years to find a good integrated solution for organizing my contacts. Every program I’ve found, be it Outlook or Plaxo (my two most commonly used applications) are pretty limited in their offerings, and don’t play well with others. I’ve held our hopes for Google contacts, but it simply isn’t quite there yet. I may be headed back to Outlook because of the integration with Plaxo, but I sure don’t want to.
Thirty states have struck such deals with banks that include Citigroup Inc., Bank of America Corp., JP Morgan Chase and US Bancorp, an Associated Press review of the agreements found. All the programs carry fees, and in several states the unemployed have no choice but to use the debit cards. Some banks even charge overdraft fees of up to $20 — even though they could decline charges for more than what’s on the card. I’m sorry but this is just wrong.
When GOP congressional aides gather Tuesday morning for a meeting of the Conservative Working Group, Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher – more commonly known as Joe the Plumber — will be their featured guest. This group is an organization of conservative Capitol Hill staffers who meet regularly to chart GOP strategy for the week. May I go on the record at how bizarre this is? Someone please tell me what credentials this guy has to advise anyone on anything.
This note came to me from another member of the Nashville for All of Us coalition:
just thought i would share this with all you…while tucking in my 12 year old daughter i whispered in her ear that the english only amendment (of which she has heard me speak about at home) had been defeated…to which she smiled and then said that “now maybe people can start trying to find the good in each other and stop focusing on our differences”…
tonight was truly a good night for nashville
Amen
The hospital’s surgical wards were closed in September. A doctor described the heartbreaking dilemma of having children in his care who he knew would die without surgery. “I have no pain medication,” he said, “some antibiotics, but no nurses … If I don’t operate, the patient will die. But if I do the surgery, the child will die also.”
This chorus came to me today and I will be working on a lyric to match:
God of the Ages, we know you are here.
God of all Wisdom, come whisper in our ears.
For we are broken, and we are weak.
God of the Ages, speak.
(c) 2009 J Voorhees
