Category Archives: Thursday posts

Leadership, Patton and Jesus

January 7, 2021Bible, Get on your feet, Thursday posts2 Kings 5:1, Embodiment, George S. Patton, Honesty, Integrity, Jesus, Leadership, Luke 23:47, Luke 4:27, Luke 7, Naaman the Syrian, Reincarnation, The Homeless BloggerWilliam Tell

From a 03/31/08 e-mail to my supervisor at the dollar store. This was a young man who had never had a paying job before, and thus certainly no experience in supervision; and I had a mind to give him some pointers on the nature of leadership. Previous conversations had already established that he regarded himself as a devout Christian.

If you’ve never seen it before, I’d urge you to see the movie Patton (link to Wikipedia). Actually, I’d urge you to buy a copy (link to Amazon).

Luke 7:

²A centurion there had a slave whom he valued highly, and who was ill and close to death. Continue reading Leadership, Patton and Jesus →

She actually said that?

December 31, 2020National media, National news, Poverty, Thursday posts, World NewsAlex Malarkey, Celebrities, Child abuse, Domestic violence, Hermaphrodites, Marriage, N.D.E., Names, Public schools, ThailandWilliam Tell

Bookmarks:
She actually said that? • “Third gender” in Thailand • Recent child abuse cases • Majority of public school children are now poor • The boy who didn’t come back from heaven • Judge Vetoes Parents’ Baby Name

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About Heather Cook

December 24, 2020Clippings, Local media, Local news, Thursday postsAlcoholism, Heather Cook, Human nature, PriestsWilliam Tell

TRANSCRIPT:

Heather Cook, an Episcopalian suffragan bishop in Maryland, has been in the news lately. A few weeks ago, she was involved in a vehicular homicide, and currently faces charges including vehicular manslaughter, driving while intoxicated, texting while driving, and leaving the scene of an accident.

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Franklin Graham, Charlie Hebdo and the “heckler’s veto”

December 17, 2020National media, Thursday posts, World media, World NewsCharlie Hebdo, Duke University, Franklin Graham, Pope Francis, Terrorism, Terrorists, The heckler's veto, The Homeless BloggerWilliam Tell

The most recent terrorist threats we’ve seen have come not from Muslims overseas or Muslims in this country, but from Christians in this country.

On January 14, Duke University announced its plan to broadcast the Muslim call to prayer from the tower of its chapel every Friday. Franklin Graham posted on Facebook, requesting that donors withhold donations to the university it reversed that decision. A firestorm of controversy followed.

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Learning curve

December 10, 2020Get on your feet, Homelessness, Squalor, The Way of Peace, Thursday postsChoosing feelings, Cornel West, Harmony, Treatment-resistantWilliam Tell

Cornel West channels Martin Luther King Jr. to criticize Obama

Friday 2014-12-26

Learning happiness can take you out of your comfort zone.

So, there can be a learning curve as one comes to tolerate and manage greater degrees of happiness and prosperity than one has been accustomed to.

Some time ago, this short, very thin Korean immigrant with shoulder-length gray hair began coming to the shelter. When he first came here, he was in bad shape; he appeared to have no resources at all.

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‘Sasquatch Family’ Prank Leaves Arizona Officials Laughing

December 3, 2020Homelessness, National news, National politics, National sports, Poverty, Thursday posts, World NewsBigfoot, Crop circles, Football, Hoaxes, HuffPost, Lord's Resistance Army, Porn, RwandaWilliam Tell

Bookmarks:
Sasquatch • Forgotten terrorists in Africa • 9 Things You Should Have Done By The Time You’re 50 • Why did HuffPost run this? • Football or porn?

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Doubts about Brown v. Board

November 26, 2020Clippings, National news, Poverty, Thursday postsBriggs v. Elliott, Brown v. Board, Charles Lane, NAACP, Public schools, Race, Richard Rothstein, Supreme Court, The Homeless Blogger, Thurgood Marshall, Valerie StraussWilliam Tell

In the January 13, 2015 Washington Post, Valerie Strauss calls attention to an obscure Supreme Court case that she says may have a greater impact on the educational achievement of black children than any other case since the 1954 Brown v. Board decision.

She republishes a lengthy analysis of the situation by Richard Rothstein. She often republishes Richard Rothstein’s articles. As usual, Rothstein has assembled a mountain of data in support of his position; however, unfortunately, a mountain of data matters little if one’s premises are wrong.

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Scientists Discover Ancient ‘Magical’ Amulet With Odd Two-Way Inscription

November 19, 2020Bible, Homelessness, National news, Science, Thursday postsAndrae Crouch, Christianity, Genetics, Marriage, Mental illness, Old Testament, Public schools, Schools, Syncretism, Vanita SundaramWilliam Tell

Bookmarks:
Amulet • R.I.P. Andre Crouch • Schools should teach against date rape? • Individualization in the classroom • The One Universal Secret To A Lasting Marriage • When a loved one has mental illness • A genetic predictor of breast cancer

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“We desperately need a war on Christmas lies.”

November 12, 2020Audition files, Bible, Clippings, Homelessness, National media, National news, Poverty, Thursday postsAtheists, Bill O'Reilly, Christmas, David Fitzgerald, Jeffrey Tayler, Salon.com, SaturnaliaWilliam Tell

My second audition file. The sound quality isn’t perfect, but I adjudged not bad enough to prevent posting here.

TRANSCRIPT

December 2014 saw a splash of anti-Christian pieces in the media.

There was Kurt Eichenwald’s January 2 Newsweek cover story, which I need not respond to; an adequate response has already been made by Albert Mohler, M-O-H-L-E-R.

There is Steve Siebold’s December 24 HuffPost article, entitled, “Don’t Just Question the 10 Commandments; Question the Entire Bible.” I may respond to that at a later date.

And then there was Jeffrey Tayler’s December 22 Salon.com piece, entitled, “Let’s Make Bill O’Reilly’s Head Explode: We Desperately Need a War on Christmas Lies;” to which I will respond now.

Continue reading “We desperately need a war on Christmas lies.” →

Bring back Saturnalia?

November 5, 2020Thursday postsChristmas, Jeffrey Tayler, Salon.com, SaturnaliaWilliam Tell

Saturday, I mean to publish a response to a recent Salon.com piece by Jeffrey Tayler disparaging Christmas.

In preparing that, I had to research Saturnalia, the ancient pagan festival that Christmas was meant to replace.

From my reading of the Wikipedia article, there’s a lot to be said for it.

Maybe we should bring it back!

Originally posted 2015-01-14.