Random Thoughts

What's this about suing McDonald's to remove the toys from Happy meals? Please....get a life.

Has anyone noticed, besides me, that Murphy's Law is in full force in our country? Even the Anointed One in DC is having a hard time keeping his halo shiny.

People can play games with words all day long, but "illegal" still means "ILLEGAL".

Maybe it's time we pull our resources out of foreign conflicts and the domestic "war on drugs" and start defending our borders.

I am tired of politicians playing games and using disasters, such as the Gulf oil spill, to advance their agenda and seek to gain more control over the American people(that would be us).

Just Wondering

The Presbyterian Church in America is the largest conservative Presbyterian denomination in the U.S If true, then why are there two Evangelical Presbyterian churches and one Orthodox Presbyterian church in Wilmington, NC but there is not one PCA church?

***UPDATE***

As of 2011, there is a PCA mission in the Port City now...Christ the King Church.

A Time Which Tries Men's Souls

"There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, as it were an error proceeding from the ruler: folly is set in many high places, and the rich sit in a low place. I have seen slaves on horses, and princes walking on the ground like slaves." --Ecclesiastes 10:5-7

This country has been totally turned upside down.

Pray for America!

Coincidence?

Has anyone ever noticed how much Keith Olbermann and Andy Dick look alike? Separated at birth? Coincidence? Hmmmmmm..........

True History

The supposedly great "literary giant" George Bernard Shaw, a progressive, was a proponent of genocide. He believed people should report to the government every five to seven years and justify their continued existence by proving their contribution to society was greater than what they took from society. If one failed to meet this criteria, they were to be exterminated. He is on film verifying this. Great literary giant my a**. If I had know this when my high school and college teachers were requiring me to read his books, I would have thrown the books back in their faces.

Yeah, I said it.

Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Live free or die!

Trivial Stuff

Call it "trivial", a "pet peeve", or whatever....I have two items related to the calendar on my mind today:

First.....everyone talks about the "new decade" we are entering. Sorry...wrong answer. The decade will begin next year with 2011. Correspondingly, 2000 was not the first year of the millennium, 2001 was.

Second.....for the past 9 years the majority of people have pronounced the years, for example, "Two-thousand nine", or "two-thousand one". It would be more uniform to say "Twenty-o-nine". You never called 1909 "one-thousand, nine-hundred nine" did you? Now that we have reached double-digits, maybe we can get it right. Welcome "TWENTY TEN"!

Reflections

I must preface these thoughts with the affirmation that I believe in a personal God who knows my paths and directs them. I might not completely understand now but I am where God wants me to be at this point in my life and it was His will for me to experience everything and everybody that has brought me to where I am today.

With that said, I believe I am not alone when I wonder aloud what it would be like to enter a time machine and go back to the key times of life with the knowledge and wisdom I now (presumably) possess. The idea of rethinking or changing decisions regarding education, career, interpersonal relationships, etc. fascinates me. But, of course, "you can't turn back the clock", "hind sight's 20/20", yadda-yadda and blah-blah. I know the score, but I still cannot help but speculate during reflective times.