Irresistible, no?
Sunday, December 21, 2008
For Now, No Anonymous Comments
The troll continues with the annoying comments, so, for now, I am not allowing Anonymous comments, I'm sorry, IT and NancyP and other innocent Anonymous posters, but until the pest or pests go away, that's how it will be. They will need to register and have a Blogger name.
O Rex Gentium
December 21
O King of the Gentiles, yea, and desire thereof!
O Corner-stone, that makest of two one,
come to save man, whom Thou hast made out of the dust of the earth!
Latin
O Rex Gentium, et desideratus earum,
lapisque angularis, qui facis utraque unum:
veni, et salva hominem, quem de limo formasti.
Isaiah 9:7
His authority shall grow continually,
and there shall be endless peace
for the throne of David and his kingdom.
He will establish and uphold it
with justice and with righteousness
from this time onwards and for evermore.
The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.
Isaiah 2:4
He shall judge between the nations,
and shall arbitrate for many peoples;
they shall beat their swords into ploughshares,
and their spears into pruning-hooks;
nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war any more.
Antiphon sung by the Dominican student brothers at Oxford.
Text from Fish Eaters.
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Because Of The Trolls
Two trolls have left several sick and disgusting comments, therefore I am turning on comment moderation until tomorrow morning.
Recipe For Christmas Cookies
I've decided to take some time to enjoy holiday events like baking Christmas cookies. I'd like to share a recipe that I have really enjoyed this season!
Jose Cuervo Christmas Cookies
Ingredients:
1 cup of water
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup of sugar
1 tsp salt
1 cup or brown sugar
4 large eggs
1 cup nuts
2 cups of dried fruit
1 bottle Jose Cuervo Tequila
Directions:
Sample the Cuervo to check quality. Take a large bowl, check the Cuervo again, to be sure it is of the highest quality, pour one level cup and drink.
Turn on the electric mixer. Beat one cup of butter in a large fluffy bowl.
Add one peastoon of sugar. Beat again. At this point it is best to make sure the Cuervo is still ok, try another cup just in case.
Turn off the mixerer thingy.
Break 2 leggs and add to the bowl and chuck in the cup of dried fruit.
Pick the frigging fruit off the floor.
Mix on the turner.
If the fried druit gets stuck in the beaters just pry it loose with a drewscriver.
Sample the Cuervo to check for tonsisticity.
Next, sift two cups of salt, or something. Who geeves a sheet. Check the Jose Cuervo. Now shift the lemon juice and strain your nuts.
Add one table.
Add a spoon of sugar, or somefink. Whatever you can find.
Greash the oven.
Turn the cake tin 360 degrees and try not to fall over.
Dont forget to beat off the turner.
Finally, throw the bowl through the window, finish the Cose Juervo and make sure to put the stove in the wishdasher.
Cherry Mistmas !
And I didn't even know Doug was baker.
Jose Cuervo Christmas Cookies
Ingredients:
1 cup of water
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup of sugar
1 tsp salt
1 cup or brown sugar
4 large eggs
1 cup nuts
2 cups of dried fruit
1 bottle Jose Cuervo Tequila
Directions:
Sample the Cuervo to check quality. Take a large bowl, check the Cuervo again, to be sure it is of the highest quality, pour one level cup and drink.
Turn on the electric mixer. Beat one cup of butter in a large fluffy bowl.
Add one peastoon of sugar. Beat again. At this point it is best to make sure the Cuervo is still ok, try another cup just in case.
Turn off the mixerer thingy.
Break 2 leggs and add to the bowl and chuck in the cup of dried fruit.
Pick the frigging fruit off the floor.
Mix on the turner.
If the fried druit gets stuck in the beaters just pry it loose with a drewscriver.
Sample the Cuervo to check for tonsisticity.
Next, sift two cups of salt, or something. Who geeves a sheet. Check the Jose Cuervo. Now shift the lemon juice and strain your nuts.
Add one table.
Add a spoon of sugar, or somefink. Whatever you can find.
Greash the oven.
Turn the cake tin 360 degrees and try not to fall over.
Dont forget to beat off the turner.
Finally, throw the bowl through the window, finish the Cose Juervo and make sure to put the stove in the wishdasher.
Cherry Mistmas !
And I didn't even know Doug was baker.
My Three Grandsons
My daughter's boys by a stream in the Great Smokey Mountains.
The family spent an enjoyable Thanksgiving in a cabin in the mountains.
I have two other grandsons and one granddaughter.
Rick Warren - Front And Center
From Susan Russell's open letter to President-elect Barach Obama:
I believe that reaching across the divide to include a strong, evangelical voice in the opening moments of your presidency is not just a good political move, it is a considered policy choice that helps bind up the wounds of a divisive campaign and eight years of polarization, preparing us as a nation to move forward together to solve the many problems that challenge us. This effort to begin your administration by representing differences of opinion in the selection of a pastor whose theological perspectives are different than your own is something I enthusiastically applaud.
The choice of Rick Warren is not. I agree with my Episcopal brother Bishop Gene Robinson, who said yesterday, "I’m all for Rick Warren being at the table, but we’re not talking about a discussion, we’re talking about putting someone up front and center at what will be the most watched inauguration in history."
Leave it to Gene Robinson, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire, to articulate so well my own thoughts on Obama's choice of Rich Warren to give the invocation. The rest of Susan's letter is well worth reading. She explains further her objections to the choice of Rick Warren.
I believe that Obama will not back down from his choice of Warren, because he fears the backlash from the religious right more than that of the religious progressives. He believes that he will bring some of them around by this choice. He has much hard work to do, and he will need the cooperation of many of us of different ideological persuasions. However, I don't think this tactic will work with the hard core religious right. Is Obama channeling the Archbishop of Canterbury?
The Rev. Susan Russell is Senior Associate at All Saints Church, Pasadena, president of Integrity USA, convener of "Claiming the Blessing" and a member of the HRC Religion Council.
H/T to Mark Harris at Preludium.
I believe that reaching across the divide to include a strong, evangelical voice in the opening moments of your presidency is not just a good political move, it is a considered policy choice that helps bind up the wounds of a divisive campaign and eight years of polarization, preparing us as a nation to move forward together to solve the many problems that challenge us. This effort to begin your administration by representing differences of opinion in the selection of a pastor whose theological perspectives are different than your own is something I enthusiastically applaud.
The choice of Rick Warren is not. I agree with my Episcopal brother Bishop Gene Robinson, who said yesterday, "I’m all for Rick Warren being at the table, but we’re not talking about a discussion, we’re talking about putting someone up front and center at what will be the most watched inauguration in history."
Leave it to Gene Robinson, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire, to articulate so well my own thoughts on Obama's choice of Rich Warren to give the invocation. The rest of Susan's letter is well worth reading. She explains further her objections to the choice of Rick Warren.
I believe that Obama will not back down from his choice of Warren, because he fears the backlash from the religious right more than that of the religious progressives. He believes that he will bring some of them around by this choice. He has much hard work to do, and he will need the cooperation of many of us of different ideological persuasions. However, I don't think this tactic will work with the hard core religious right. Is Obama channeling the Archbishop of Canterbury?
The Rev. Susan Russell is Senior Associate at All Saints Church, Pasadena, president of Integrity USA, convener of "Claiming the Blessing" and a member of the HRC Religion Council.
H/T to Mark Harris at Preludium.
Message From The Archbishop Of Catterbury
The Cat's Carol
Poem: Canon Eddie Hughes - Once vicar of All Saints' Church, Oystermouth (Mumbles), Swansea in Wales. Rowan Williams' vicar when he was young.
Tune: Once in Royal David's City
Come you cats of ev'ry colour,
Kittens too of ev'ry size;
See the Lord who made the tiger,
Low within the manger lies.
Praise him all his little tigers
Let your joyful purring rise.
Siamese and stately Persians,
Homely black and tabby gay,
Leave your cushions and your saucers
Make your peace with mice today.
Swift and silent, velvet-footed,
Hasten now down Bethlehem way.
See, He smiles to see you coming,
Mary welcomes you within,
Joseph with a friendly finger
Gently rubs a furry chin;
Ox and ass will kneel beside you,
Sheep and camel peering in.
We, and angels, sing His praises
In our varied sharps and flats.
Join the chorus, cats and kittens;
Praise him just by being cats:
Join the chorus, cats and kittens,
Praise Him just by being cats!
Thanks to Ann.
Poem: Canon Eddie Hughes - Once vicar of All Saints' Church, Oystermouth (Mumbles), Swansea in Wales. Rowan Williams' vicar when he was young.
Tune: Once in Royal David's City
Come you cats of ev'ry colour,
Kittens too of ev'ry size;
See the Lord who made the tiger,
Low within the manger lies.
Praise him all his little tigers
Let your joyful purring rise.
Siamese and stately Persians,
Homely black and tabby gay,
Leave your cushions and your saucers
Make your peace with mice today.
Swift and silent, velvet-footed,
Hasten now down Bethlehem way.
See, He smiles to see you coming,
Mary welcomes you within,
Joseph with a friendly finger
Gently rubs a furry chin;
Ox and ass will kneel beside you,
Sheep and camel peering in.
We, and angels, sing His praises
In our varied sharps and flats.
Join the chorus, cats and kittens;
Praise him just by being cats:
Join the chorus, cats and kittens,
Praise Him just by being cats!
Thanks to Ann.
Bold Solution To The Housing Crisis
OKLAHOMA CITY—In a year that saw a record number of mortgage defaults and home foreclosures, part-time landscaper Ben Foster, 34, was publicly vindicated in his bold decision, made back in the spring of 1996, to continue living with his parents.
Hmmm. I hope my children don't read this.
From the The Onion.
Hmmm. I hope my children don't read this.
From the The Onion.
Friday, December 19, 2008
Suirprise From Jerry Brown On Prop 8
From the L. A. Times:
In a surprise move, state Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown asked the California Supreme Court on Friday to invalidate Proposition 8. He said the November ballot measure that banned gay marriage "deprives people of the right to marry, an aspect of liberty that the Supreme Court has concluded is guaranteed by the California Constitution."
It is the attorney general's duty to defend the state's laws, and after gay rights activists filed legal challenges to Proposition 8, which amended the Constitution to ban same-sex marriage, Brown said he planned to defend the proposition as enacted by the people of California.
But after studying the matter, Brown concluded that "Proposition 8 must be invalidated because the amendment process cannot be used to extinguish fundamental constitutional rights without compelling justification."
Read the entire article. Sounds about right to me.
Thanks to Susan S.
In a surprise move, state Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown asked the California Supreme Court on Friday to invalidate Proposition 8. He said the November ballot measure that banned gay marriage "deprives people of the right to marry, an aspect of liberty that the Supreme Court has concluded is guaranteed by the California Constitution."
It is the attorney general's duty to defend the state's laws, and after gay rights activists filed legal challenges to Proposition 8, which amended the Constitution to ban same-sex marriage, Brown said he planned to defend the proposition as enacted by the people of California.
But after studying the matter, Brown concluded that "Proposition 8 must be invalidated because the amendment process cannot be used to extinguish fundamental constitutional rights without compelling justification."
Read the entire article. Sounds about right to me.
Thanks to Susan S.
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