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The future of the mall

In most areas, there are generally plenty of malls and old retail space that are completely unused. And it looks like it’s going to get worse. Some of this retail space is already kind of hopeless, as the economic damage to the surrounding area is already too severe to easily recover. But this is an [...]

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You need to be on Facebook

Alot of my web efforts lately have gone there. I’m going to port some of the content over for posterity’s sake, but you really should join in the fun.

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Famous Daughter Quote #155:

“I think that hot chocolate deleted some of my tastebuds!”

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Silly visitor, Church is for tithers.

Interesting…in Germany they want to (by law) give routine churchgoers/tithers preference in Christmas services attendance. Apparently, those churches can get pretty crowded and it’s pretty inconvenient. This is like one of those worksheets my kids get at restaurants. “How many things can you find wrong with this picture?” Where do you start? Of course what’s [...]

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Surely the government knows what they’re doing?

I know…stop calling you Shirley. December 16th, Paulson says they won’t need the additional $350 billion in bailout funds. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said he doesn’t plan to ask Congress for the rest of the $700 billion Wall Street bailout fund before leaving office next month, but indicated that could change if there is an [...]

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Another nail in the coffin of the federal balance sheet

So aside from announcing free borrowing (in theory), the Fed also announced “quantitative easing”. There is clearly no capitalism or socialism or any controlling economic theory anymore. This is purely utilitarian one-month-at-a-time planning now. They’re doing everything they can to try and avoid collapse. What this means to you and me is that the flow [...]

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Presidential shoe dodging

Say what you like about our president, he’s got great reflexes:

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KB Toys: Gone

This is a sad one. KB Toys is going bankrupt and will be liquidated (go away). We grew up with KB stores, of course. and ever since our kids were born, trips through those cramped mall-based KB toy stores have been a staple. I know my daughter will take this pretty hard…probably harder than the [...]

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On birds suddenly appearing.

I put this in my FB status, but this is actually a cool thought. We all know the song: why do birds, suddenly appear….every time…..you are near Just like me…they long to be…close to yooooou… Now think about this for a second. What if birds suddenly appeared everytime you were near. If it were robins [...]

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Literally worshiping the SUV

While not as jaw dropping as people praying around the wall street bull, this is pretty troubling. That’s right, they drove SUV’s up to the altar to pray over. Now, I have no doubt that these families are facing some real trouble. But in this case God is being set up the idol. Where does [...]

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On the repetition in praise tunes

Yesterday in church we did a tune where the chorus was simply: Glory to God Glory to God Glory to God in the highest At the end, the offertory consisted of a very free-form version of the song….which started with that chorus over and over. We eventually got to the verses, but we must have [...]

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Citing the world

I always find it interesting when the more fundamentalist minded folks cite the world in support of their argument. For instance “even the world knows that rock music is of the devil!” and then they quote that “rock and roll has always been the devils music” line. The latest has to do with sermons on [...]

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