May 2013
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Americans Spend $61 Billion on Pets Annually
Americans cut back in some types of disposable spending during the nation’s financial crisis, but spending on Fido held steady and is picking up again.
It turns out even the deepest recession in decades can’t kill off pet spending. A new report from the Labor Department shows that while Americans cut back in some types of disposable spending during the nation’s financial...
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Brewer Magic Hat files federal lawsuit against...
In a battle of beer logos, brewer Magic Hat has filed a federal lawsuit against Lexington’s West Sixth Brewing Co., claiming trademark infringement.
A lawsuit filed May 16 in U.S. District Court charged that West Sixth began selling beer, ale and brewpub services in 2012 using color, trademarks and designs “that closely resemble and are confusingly similar” to the designs used...
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Poll Says Teens Are Migrating from Facebook to...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Twitter is booming as a social media destination for teenagers who complain about too many adults and too much drama on Facebook, according to a new study published Tuesday about online behavior. It said teens are sharing more personal information about themselves even as they try to protect their online reputations.
Teens told researchers there were too many adults on...
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““Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his...”
– Precious Deaths Sermon Delivered February 18th, 1872, by Charles Spurgeon
See full text of Sermon at THIS LINK
April 2013
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““For truly, I say to you, whoever gives you a cup of water to drink...”
– Ray Stedman Sermon, The Child in Our Midst
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President Obama’s Elusive Budgetary Goal of...
By Michael Scherer of Time Magazine
President Obama will release a “fiscally responsible” budget for the country today, his aides say. This is not news. It happened last year. And the year before. And the year before. In Obama’s first year, he was so confident, he called his budget “A New Era of Responsibility.”
Except, it wasn’t. And never really has been. Because the fiscally responsible...
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“The victorious Christian neither exalts nor downgrades himself. His interests...”
– The Dwelling Place of God-A.W. Tozer
Minimal Mac: I Declare April 1st: Digital... →
minimalmac:
As the first day of April has largely come to be the day where nothing but jokes, fake press releases, preposterous rumors (or, at least, more preposterous than they are normally), expensively produced videos for products that will never exist by companies that kill real products to “focus”, and the infinite re-sharing-blogging-tweeting-plussing of such, I think it is high time that...
March 2013
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“The new cross does not slay the sinner, it redirects him. It gears him into a...”
– Man-The Dwelling Place of God-Chapter 10: The Old Cross and the New-by A. W. Tozer
February 2013
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The Most Important Chart in American Politics
From Michael Scherer at Time Magazine
There is a single chart — three colored lines on a grid — that shapes the political reality of this country. During the 2012 campaign, one of President Obama’s senior strategists called it “the North Star” and started his internal PowerPoint presentations with it. When Republican majority leader Eric Cantor speaks on Tuesday about his vision for the future...
My VIVID Memories of the Very First Super...
As an “older guy” getting ready to watch Super Bowl 47 (Yipes; no Roman Numerals), it has occurred to me how vividly I recall watching the very first “Supergame.” It was 1967, I was 12 years old, and my neighbor had just purchased some new technology—a color television set. The neighbor was not a sports fan, but the Supergame represented one of the first ever live sports broadcasts in something...
Calling All Students: Summer 2013 Mission Trip to...
For the past two summers, students and adults from in and around Lexington and Central Kentucky have answered God’s call and traveled thousands of miles to Uganda for work with orphans. And our lives have never been the same. God is calling us back for a third year, and we need your help. Please read the following and begin to dream of what God can do through you this summer. Brenda...
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January 2013
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“(We are) being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in...”
– Romans: St. Andrews Expositional Commentary, R.C. Sproul
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December 2012
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Death takes no holiday at Christmas. A reflection...
A column from Maureen Dowd of the New York Times posted on Christmas Day. Read and reflect.
When my friend Robin was dying, she asked me if I knew a priest she could talk to who would not be, as she put it, “too judgmental.” I knew the perfect man, a friend of our family, a priest conjured up out of an old black-and-white movie, the type who seemed not to exist anymore in a Catholic Church...
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The story of the three wise men got me wondering:...
From the web site What If with its tag-line: Answering your hypothetical questions with physics, every Tuesday. Check out the site HERE. This article is written with good humor and is a great smash up of the Bible and Physics. Just more confirmation of the majesty and mystery of the Christmas Story—enjoy.
If the wise men leave Jerusalem and walk toward the star Sirius, day and night,...
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Amazing MRI Imagery of Fruits and Vegetables
kqedscience:
Andy Ellison is an “MRI technologist at Boston University Medical School and has been posting these images on his blog, Inside Insides, he manually acquires from a research Philips 3 Tesla MRI he runs.”
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Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon are at each...
From The Economist, full story HERE.
IT IS an epic story of warring factions in a strange and changing landscape, a tale of incursions and sieges, of plots and betrayals, of battlefield brilliance and of cunning with coin.
The sequence of doorstop fantasy novels that George R.R. Martin began with “A Game of Thrones”, and which HBO has now turned into a hit television show, provides the sort...
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“The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in...”
– Abraham Lincoln, Meditation on Divine Will, reflecting on God’s Will as it related to the Civil War, September 30, 1862
November 2012
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“I’ve made no truce with the way the world is. I resent everything that dishonors...”
– Hard to Believe: The High Cost and Infinite Value of Following Jesus. John MacArthur
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How to solve the fiscal cliff: The Obamney tax...
PRESIDENTS choose their words carefully. So when Barack Obama talked of “tax reform” but not “tax rates” in his acceptance speech early Wednesday, he was presumably sending a signal. And it was similarly significant that later that day John Boehner repeatedly stated his opposition to higher tax “rates” rather than tax revenue.
Within those two statements lies the nucleus of a deal: raising tax...
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The single best graph on what’s driving our...
The full WonkBlog HERE.
From the Congressional Budget Office’s hot new white paper, “Options for Deficit Reduction“:
That’s all of the federal government’s spending in three graphs. The top graph is health care, including Medicare, Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act. The middle graph is Social Security. And then there’s literally everything else: Defense, education, infrastructure, food...
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The Fiscal Cliff--In Pictures and Notes For a...
Handy reference tools to help explain the fiscal cliff—click on the images to get a larger image of the graphics.
What is the fiscal cliff? The combination of tax increases and spending cuts, that are scheduled to go into effect January 2013.
Which taxes are going up? The Bush-era tax cuts are set to expire, which will bring the tax system back to 2001 levels; President Obama’s 2...
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State of Denial: The real blow to Republicans may...
From The Economist, HERE.
FOR conservatives casting about for comfort, there are plenty of plausible reasons to dismiss talk of a crisis. Mitt Romney could have run a better campaign. He reacted slowly when Barack Obama defined him as a heartless plutocrat, and flip-flopped on policies so frequently that even campaign allies struggled to keep up. This was an election that maintained the balance...
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Fifteen year old cyberbullied Amanda Todd leaves...
The mother of a teenager who committed suicide wants her daughter’s anti-cyber-bullying video to be used to help other young people.
Fifteen-year-old Amanda Todd was found dead in a Port Coquitlam home at 6 p.m. in early October, five weeks after she posted a heartbreaking video on YouTube detailing how she was harassed online and bullied.
“I think the video should be shared and used as an...
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“If there is a secret, a carefully guarded secret, to human happiness, it is that...”
– R. C. Sproul, Knowing Scripture
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The left’s gone left and the right’s gone right:...
It isn’t your imagination: Political polarization has risen sharply in recent years. The Pew Research Center confirmed it in a recent poll.
Interestingly, Pew’s survey shows no similar rise in polarization along racial, gender, or religious lines — only political affiliation. What seems to have happened is not a change in value systems but a sorting of those value systems into...
October 2012
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