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Drex Davis Recent Posts- Just amazing the resiliency of the human baby body
- The Edwards Affair
- Mr. T - “I’ve been pitying fools for 28 years”
- as a follow up to the story/part below, don’t miss the part
- somebody has to make a movie out of this
- When guppies eat their young . . .
- Love and Demands
- What is government doing to your money?
- Robotics - playing fetch has never been weirder
- Scathing, Lucid, Brilliant Dismemberment of the Obamessiah by “the Hammer”
Just amazing the resiliency of the human baby body
premature baby comes back to life
Technorati Tags: miracle
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I just saw my brother in law in an online REI ad (he’s in the catalogs frequently)
check it out!
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Vampire Weekend - Oxford Comma
Great song. Every greater video. Just saw this today, wow.
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Boston Celtics NBA Champs
My brother McKane and I have been closet (and not-so-closeted) Celtics fans since the 80s, when we were big fans of Larry Bird and, therefore, Converse Weapons. What better role model than Larry Legend for a couple of slow kids who wanted to play in the Pros someday.
Anyway, it was great to see the Celtics win it all tonight, playing as a team. The longer I live, the more I root for the teams that have the best chemistry and play the best together, lifting each other up, not tearing each other down or elbowing one another.
Go celts.
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bout time to start bloggin again . . .
been a long time!
where have i been?
and it hurt.
i hope you like the new blog theme. i think it’s pretty sharp, myself…
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Why I am supporting Mitt Romney for President
The following is an email I sent to friends this weekend . . .
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I am supporting Mitt Romney for President. I’m telling you this because I think it’s important I do so.
There’s a personal reason I’m supporting him. I had an experience that I think gave me some personal insight into the caliber of person Mitt Romney is in his family and private life. It’s important to me that we not only have a competent, but a good, President.
I, like many people, have been very impressed with Mitt Romney’s accomplishments in his life. From his business success, to turning around the Olympics, to generating a Massachusetts government surplus while lowering taxes, to being a good family man with a long history of integrity and family and community service. In fact, without his conservative credentials I would not support him (but there are other conservatives who’s credentials I respect, too). To me, he’s clearly the most qualified person to help aright an adrift American ship.
But even that’s not what completely tipped it for me.
When I lived in New Jersey several years ago, I belonged to a congregation where Mitt Romney’s son, Josh, also attended. One day the leader of my congregation called me in the middle of the day. I was at home because I was in the school at the time. This leader informed me that someone had called up the church and said they had a refrigerator to donate if someone from the church could pick it up within the next 4 hours or so. If not, they’d have to junk it because they were moving that afternoon and it had to be out of the apartment.
My church leader asked if I could do my best to find someone who both a) had a vehicle that could transport the refrigerator and b) could drop everything right then and pick it up because there was an indigent member of our congregation who desperately needed a refrigerator and this would be a big blessing in her life. I said I’d do my best.
If I recall correctly, in my mind I went through every member of our congregation and every neighbor I knew, and the only person I could think of who had a vehicle large enough to transport the fridge was Josh. I called Josh while he was at work and explained the situation to him and asked if he wasn’t too busy to help out. Josh said that while he had plenty to do, he understood the need to help out this member of our congregation. He told me that he would wrap things up at work, make some arrangements in his schedule, and meet me at the apartment where the refrigerator was.
We arrived just in time to pick up the refrigerator. Josh pulled up in a nice, new, SUV. When we went inside to get the fridge, we saw that while it was a good refrigerator in good condition, it was filthy, covered with a thick layer of dust and sticky substances. We didn’t have any time to clean it up, so we had to move it as it was. At the same time, a very large storm had started and it was raining hard. We carried the refrigerator out to Josh’s car, the rain turning the filth on the fridge into a muddy sludge. I felt horrible, the filthy refrigerator would mar the inside of his beautiful car. I said, “We don’t have to do this. We can just leave it here.” Josh said, “I don’t care what happens to the car, I have it so that I can do stuff like this.” And we loaded it up, getting the interior very dirty in the process. Josh didn’t seem to care. He seemed very happy to be of service and help out this member of our congregation.
Later that year Josh and I volunteered to take some boys in our congregation on a church-sponsored campout. It was a fathers-and-sons outing, but most of these boys either did not have fathers or their fathers were not involved in their lives. Josh’s SUV was the only one that would fit us and the 6 boys. Josh again volunteered his vehicle and his time. The boys had a great time camping and getting as dirty as possible. Of course, when we got it in the car the next day to come home, the interior got filthy. On the drive home, I said to Josh (seemed like deja vu), “I’m really sorry about your car, it’s very kind of you to volunteer it.”
He said to me, “My dad taught me that if I’ve been blessed with things, then I’m supposed to use them to help other people. I’m more than happy to do what I can to give what I have to help these boys have a memorable experience.” I asked him questions about his father, and then he told me other stories about his Dad, and how his Dad raised him and his brothers. I was very impressed with the caliber of person his father is, and how he was able to transmit those virtues to his children.
Later that year, Josh organized a trip for all the youth in our congregation to go to Massachusetts and spend the day with Mitt, learning about government and what a governor does. That night they spent the night at the governer’s house. I was not present for this event, I had since moved to Arizona, but one of those youth later wrote me and told me that that trip was, so far, the highlight of his life.
I admire Mitt Romney’s business and political accomplishments. I believe that they demonstrate that he is eminently qualified and competent to serve as President of the United States. But, more importantly, I admire what Mitt Romney has accomplished with his family, and the virtues and service-mindedness that he has embraced his whole life. I believe that a man who is not intrinsically good would not have children who revere him and seek to emulate him through anonymous service.
No one is perfect.
But I think Mitt Romney is the real deal. In an age where so many politicians have recently let us down with their deceptive and immoral behavior, it would be very refreshing to have a good person at the front of our government. And that’s why I’m supporting him.
If you also support Mitt Romney, please consider donating either your time or your financial resources to his campaign.
I am a young father with lots of bills to pay, a mortgage, and student loans to pay off. I don’t have much (if any!) disposable income. I’ve managed to dig through the seat cushions on the couch and the drink-tray in my car to drum up a paltry amount to donate to the campaign. If enough of us do the same, every donation, no matter how small, will help Mitt Romney get his message out. When people get to know him, see him up close, they like what they see. I believe that as American citizens start to pay more attention to the race, they will like what they see in Mitt and the goodness and hope he brings to the race. But in this age of character assassination and mud-slinging, a candidate also has to have funds to get his or her message out and overcome the blackballing.
I am not affiliated with the Romney campaign in any way. For those who have known me for a while, you’ll know I was a card carrying member of the Libertarian party for a while and while I usually vote Republican I consider myself an Independent. Please don’t feel any pressure to donate and I hope you do not feel offended by my sending you this email. I just felt like doing it! But if you feel strongly, as I do, that Mitt is the right person for the job, then please consider doing what you can to support him.
You can make a quick credit card donation to Mitt’s campaign at this site:
https://www.mittromney.com/contribution/form
Please feel free to forward this email onto anyone you think might benefit from this long-winded yarn of mine. I apologize for its length. I feel a little like Mark Twain who said “I am sorry this is such a long letter, but I did not have the time to write a short one.”
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september 14 cool stuff
Mauboussin on Counterfactuals - great appendix on living life forward . . . and if you’re going to look at past decision processes, make sure you only look at information available at the time the decision was made.
Jim Melcher epitomized Heads I win BIG, Tails I don’t lose very much (see sections at bottom . . . Pros and Cons, Less Risk More Return)
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he’s dead, what does he need it for?
the thing about irony is that it’s so, well, ironic.
when i saw this story i (inappropriately, but yet appropriately) laughed. you reap what you sow, eh? (even if it doesn’t catch up to you till you’re dead.)
I wonder if they stole the signature headscarf, too.
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But I thought Israel was responsible for all the Palestinian Problems!
The international movement to “blame” Israel for all of Palestine’s problems is a farce.
Palestinians have caused the Palestinian problems.
Give them everything they want - money, democracy, the settlements, international peacekeeping and aid . . .
does no good. Fatah and Hamas in a civil war. Locusts eating their own?
Could it be that Palestine has been the problem, all along?
UPDATE: Well, that didn’t take long! Saudi Arabs to echo my sentiment!
Key Graph:
“It’s futile to bet on Palestinian unity,” Saudi journalist Dawood al-Shirian told The Associated Press. “By fighting among themselves, the Palestinians are making Israeli aggression against them appear marginal.“