Grace and the News

What was the consolation prize?

2005-05-10T17:04:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Bush Wins Enthusiastic Welcome in Georgia" (AP)

Double jeapoardy apparently doesn't apply to deity

2005-05-10T17:01:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Jesus Christ in legal battle in W.Va." (AP)

Too bad algae can't read the papers

2005-05-10T16:59:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Md. Researchers Predict Bad Year for Algae" (AP)

Noah's covenant revoked

2005-05-10T16:57:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Christians Urged to Adapt to Fluid World" (AP)

I didn't know al-Quaida had a moderate wing

2005-05-10T16:41:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Accused al-Qaida Member Says He's Moderate" (AP)

Beware of Federal Agents with fake badges

2005-05-10T16:40:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Federal Agents Seize 1,000 Fake Badges" (AP)

But not another?

2005-05-10T16:38:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Police Question Father of One Slain Girl" (AP)

I guess they all rate as popular

2005-05-10T16:30:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Consumer Reports Rates Popular Diets" (AP)

And if they don't?

2005-05-10T16:28:00.000-04:00

Headline: "U.N. May Relocate During Renovations" (AP)

Amazing things they find in Egyptian tombs

2005-05-10T16:27:00.000-04:00

Headline: "CT Scans Show What King Tut Looked Like" (AP)

Supporting actors still allowed to be reckless

2005-05-10T16:25:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Study Urges More Care for Lead Exposure" (AP)

Meteorologists frozen out

2005-05-10T16:23:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Investors Debate Climate Change at U.N." (AP)

The unanticipated side effects of the Iraq invasion...

2005-05-05T22:57:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Earth Has Become Brighter, but No One is Sure Why" (New York Times)

Having maximized animal intelligence...

2005-05-05T22:52:00.000-04:00

Headline: "US Moves to Revitalize Human Intelligence" (Voice of America)

Follow-up

2005-05-05T22:50:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Wife of Evangelist Oral Roberts Dies" (AP)

The 80's and 90's? Well that's another matter...

2005-05-05T22:47:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Wash. Mayor Denies Molesting Boys in '70s" (AP)

Just swift...

2005-05-05T22:25:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Runaway Bride Denies Having Cold Feet" (ABC News)

Fast Times at the ALF...

2005-05-04T22:55:00.000-04:00

Headlines: "Volunteers still needed for senior all night party" (Independent Record)

Profound...

2005-05-04T22:50:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Moratorium by county would stop development" (Las Vegas Sun)

KFC playfully takes on PETA and Pamela Anderson

2005-05-04T22:30:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Pamela turns down lunch date with KFC boss" (AZ Central.com)

Pamela Anderson has been criticizing KFC for its treatment of chickens. The chairman and CEO of the company wrote and asked her to lunch to keep her "fully abreast" of the company's ethical practices. "Pamela, the facts are 'Stacked' against you," he wrote.

Subheadline:

"Chickens You Eat May not Always Live Fairly Good Lives"

Prof. Ian Duncan, an animal-welfare expert at the University of Guelph:

"Things are not quite as bad as PETA is making out, but it's certainly not all sweetness and light, it's not a bed of roses, for the chickens. Most consumers assume that the animals that they are eating have fairly good lives and I'm afraid that's not always true."

Question: If they are leading a "fairly good life," what are they doing on my plate? This guy has a pretty low standard for a good day.

Christian T-Shirts

2005-05-04T22:14:00.000-04:00

From The Christian Science Monitor:

"My God can kick your God's butt."

Abreadcrumb & Fish

G.A.P (for God Answers Prayers)

Got Jesus?

"You have the faith. Get the gear."

"Rebel with a cause" (depicts Jesus on the cross)

"Lord's Gym," Jesus strains under the cross, and the shirt reads: "The weight of the world's sins. Bench press this!".

"Who would Jesus bomb?"

'I prayed in school; I'm a real menace to society'

Muslim population on other planets remains unclear

2005-05-04T22:10:00.000-04:00

Arsalan Iftikhar, the national legal director of the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations as quoted here:

"There are over a billion Muslims on Earth."

The art of overstatement...

2005-05-04T22:06:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Judicial Filibusters and The Masters of Good and Evil" (AFA Online)

A new trend in Chicago politics...

2005-05-04T22:01:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Chicago Mayor Embarrassed Over Corruption" (AP)

Et tu, 007?

2005-05-04T21:58:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Nichols: Third Man Helped With Bombing" (AP)

"Roger Moore gave the explosives to Timothy McVeigh and provided additional bomb components recently found in Nichols' former Kansas home."

Advocating for home team now unauthorized

2005-05-04T21:52:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Texas House Bans 'Suggestive' Cheerleading" (AP)

Baby dies from treatment?

2005-05-04T21:48:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Texas Baby Dies Before Treatment Withheld" (AP)

Live long and prosper

2005-05-04T21:27:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Oral Roberts' Wife in Coma After Fall" (AP)

It looks like the faith healer and popularizer of "seed faith" is about to lose his beloved wife.

Oral Roberts on meeting his wife, Evelyn:

"On the way back from fishing," he writes, "I stopped my car on a sandbar to talk." He said, "Evelyn, my huge, happy, hilarious heart is throbbing tumultuously, tremendously, triumphantly, in a lasting, long-lived love for you. As I gaze into your beauteous, bounteous, beaming eyes, I am literally lost in a daring, delightful dream in which your fair, felicitous, fancy-filled face is ever present like a colossal, comprehensive constellation. Will you be my sweet, smiling, soulful, satisfied spouse?" To that Miss Evelyn replied, "Listen here, boy! If you're trying to propose to me, talk in the English language." So, he said, "I did it over again, and I was accepted. And we sealed it with a kiss."

Since they don't celebrate Christmas in Israel...

2005-05-04T20:37:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Israel Makes Clear the Holocaust Message" (AP)

Where togo?

2005-05-04T20:33:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Togo Refugees Weigh Not Returning Home" (AP)

I can't wait

2005-05-03T22:09:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Ho-Chunk Nation to share culture" (WiscNews.com)

It seems like that should earn them a high grade

2005-05-03T22:04:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Iowa gets low grade for giving new parents help in workplace" (DesMoines Register)

Police find safer techniques for fighting crime

2005-05-03T21:41:00.000-04:00

Problem: "Phoenix Man Dies After Being Tasered" (AP)

Solution: "Police use chewing tobacco, bubble gum to nab burglars" (WSLS)

"The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe" due out December 9

2005-05-03T21:11:00.000-04:00

Headline: "The wonderful world of 'Narnia'" (USA Today)

Official movie website here.

The grand predictive power of evolutionary theory...

2005-05-03T20:40:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Human evolution at the crossroads" (MSNBC)

"Scientists are fond of running the evolutionary clock backward, using DNA analysis and the fossil record to figure out when our ancestors stood erect and split off from the rest of the primate evolutionary tree. But the clock is running forward as well. So where are humans headed?"

"Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins says it's the question he's most often asked, and 'a question that any prudent evolutionist will evade.'"

We sure are impressed.

Footnote: The Coming Extinction of MSNBC
Headline: "DROPPING THE MS FROM MSNBC?" (New York Post)

How comforting

2005-05-03T20:26:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Despite Finger, Body Parts in Food Rare" (AP)

Ultimately, is there an explanation for his injury?

2005-05-03T20:25:00.000-04:00

Headline: "No Explanation for Firefighter's Recovery" (AP)

Buggies remain stupid

2005-05-03T20:22:00.000-04:00

Headline: "New Computers Make Grocery Carts Smarter" (AP)

On or off?

2005-05-03T18:46:00.000-04:00

Headline: "U.S. Climber Falls to Death on Everest" (AP)

At least they're not pedophiles

2005-05-03T18:44:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Rehabilitated Dolphins Released in Fla." (AP)

Neither am I

2005-05-03T18:43:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Doctors: 67-Year-Old Serbian Not Pregnant" (AP)

What does "meaningless" mean?

2005-05-03T09:36:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Film ratings for violence labeled as meaningless" (Washington Times)

Joyce Meyer income...Yikes!

2005-05-03T09:28:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Meyer received millions, records show" (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

"The ministry's board of trustees, which is headed by Joyce Meyer, agreed to pay her a $900,000 annual salary in 2002 and 2003. "

"The board agreed to give her husband, Dave Meyer, the board's vice president, an annual salary of $450,000 in each of those same two years."

"The board agreed to provide the couple with free personal use of a corporate jet and luxury cars, a $2 million home where all bills are paid by the ministry and a separate $50,000-a-year housing allowance. The ministry paid $1.475 million to buy three houses for the three Meyer children."

"The board authorized Joyce and Dave Meyer to control a $790,000 fund to be used at their discretion for bonuses to 'executive management.' "

But whatever you do, don't set the church on fire...

2005-05-03T09:21:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Midnight Oil group fires up young people about religion" (Clarksburg Exponent Telegram)

Revival illegal!

2005-05-03T09:17:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Pastor arrested for allegedly setting fire to own church" (ABC13)

Yikes!

2005-05-03T09:13:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Motion to sever denied in English case " (The Valdosta Daily Times)

And to think they drive public policy...

2005-05-03T09:05:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Congress May Require Closer Scrutiny to Get a Driver's License" (New York Times)

But will it be to each other?

2005-05-03T09:02:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Groom Hopes They'll Still Marry" (CBS News)

And what did he ever do for us?

2005-05-03T08:57:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Allies Recover Letter for Al-Zarqawi" (AP)

It's high time...

2005-05-03T08:55:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Palestinians Begin Anti-Corruption Effort" (AP)

Students prefer boarding school

2005-05-02T12:26:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Students: School should be turned into housing" (Daily News Tribune)

Has anyone notified their parents?

2005-05-02T12:10:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Pupils play doctor for a day" (The Baltimore Sun)

This tends to happen when you are in the sun

2005-05-02T12:07:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Teens Tan Despite Knowing Risks" (CBS News)

No good deed goes unpunished

2005-05-02T12:04:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Police Look for Two Men Who They say Stopped a Rape" (WDTN)

It's when they get out of the car that you have to worry

2005-05-02T11:49:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Study Confirms: Kids Safest in Back Seat" (AP)

follow-up: "Man gambles while kids are left in car sleeping" (WDEL.com)

Star Trek producers relieved

2005-05-02T11:17:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Ind. Heart Patient Dies After Bike Trek" (AP)

How do you propel space?

2005-05-01T22:12:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Ohio Lab Tests Space Propulsion System" (AP)

Around Blogdom...

2005-04-30T22:36:00.000-04:00

Rebecca at Rebecca Writes has an interesting piece on theology and women.

Amy Scott at Amy's Humble Musings tells us about Proverbs 31 and garage sales.

Parableman gives us a thoughtful piece on the subject of exposure of our children to the gay culture in schools by analogizing our reaction to the exposure of our children to the divorce culture in the schools.

Choir returned to its proper owner

2005-04-30T22:14:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Woman jailed in choir theft" (Las Cruces Sun-News)

Its employees hold a different opinion

2005-04-30T22:06:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Bank of America insists it can't find slave profits in its past" (Chicago Sun-Times)

The Scream, for example...

2005-04-30T22:03:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Youngsters learn about art by imitating it" (The Telegraph)

Can't agree on suitable solvent

2005-04-30T21:55:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Church members consider dissolving " (The Telegraph)

Was it an electric car?

2005-04-30T21:54:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Man found sleeping in stolen car charged" (West Hawaii Today)

Such a rare occurrence, it merits headline attention...

2005-04-30T21:52:00.000-04:00

Headline: "A bad idea is rejected" (The Maui News)

They are actually a brave and composed fish...

2005-04-30T21:50:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Tuna fears exaggerated" (Honolulu Star Bulletin)

Pharmacies start offering meth to the public?

2005-04-30T21:43:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Local pharmacies doing their part to reduce meth labs" (The New Bern Sun Journal)

Because the "little guy" always gets left out...

2005-04-30T21:38:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Romney eyes tougher enforcement of littler laws" (WPRI)

While self-serving, one's heart is warmed nevertheless

2005-04-30T21:35:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Judge praises justice system in America" (The Newport Daily News)

Muslims optimistic that new pope will convert to Islam

2005-04-30T21:26:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Muslims are hopeful despite new pope's past writings" (STLToday.com)

We're done for when state taxes can vote too

2005-04-30T21:21:00.000-04:00

Headline: "State Parks Tax Will Go to Vote" (KRCG)

Solution for a heart gone cold...

2005-04-30T21:19:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Campaign to restore church's organ gets started" (Southeast Missourian)

More to the point, Two Armed Women Fire on Cairo Tour Bus

2005-04-30T21:13:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Two Veiled Women Fire on Cairo Tour Bus" (AP)

They had never done this before?

2005-04-30T21:08:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Vatican to Evaluate American Seminaries" (AP)

Anglican Church unanware that Civil War is over

2005-04-29T22:46:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Rebel bishops reconsider same-sex blessings" (Times Religion)

Only 134,000 to go

2005-04-29T22:31:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Messianic Jews in Israel claim 10,000" (Jerusalem Post)

Dobson's creeping scale of rhetoric...

2005-04-29T22:22:00.000-04:00

On Senator Salazar's claim that Focus on the Family is the anti-christ.

James Dobson on April 25, 2005: "His response in an effort to change the subject is to attack us personally," Dobson said. "There's been no such rhetoric from here." (The Denver Post)

James Dobson on April 11, 2005: "I heard a minister the other day talking about the great injustice and evil of the men in white robes, the Ku Klux Klan, that roamed the country in the South, and they did great wrong to civil rights and to morality. And now we have black-robed men, and that's what you're talking about." (Hat Tip to Dignan's 75 Year Plan)

How to dig a hole...

2005-04-29T22:18:00.000-04:00

The Denver Post records Senator Salazar's apology for calling Focus on te Family" antichrist:

"I spoke about Jim Dobson and his efforts and used the term 'the anti-Christ,"' Salazar said in a written statement from his office. "I regret having used that term. I meant to say this approach was un-Christian, meaning self-serving and selfish."

So apparently Dobson isn't really the anti-christ, he just acts like him...

Denver Post believes the term "anti-christ" comes from a 1970s movie

2005-04-29T22:14:00.000-04:00

The Denver Post, discussing Senator Salazar's retraction of his statement that Focus on the Family is the antichrist wrote:

"Salazar uttered the theological term, popularized in the 1970s movie "The Omen," in an interview ...."

Dancers already attending

2005-04-29T22:11:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Alabama billboard points patrons of topless dance club to church" (Associated Baptist Press News)

Churches now named after alien subcultures

2005-04-29T22:06:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Carolina Cowboy Church to Open Next Thursday" (Christian Communication Network)

Now Dobson knows how all those popes felt

2005-04-29T22:04:00.000-04:00

Headline: "U.S. Senator Ken Salazar from Colorado Calls Focus on the Family 'The Antichrist'" (Religion Journal)

Adult male arrested for wanting to camp out at kindergarten all day

2005-04-29T21:51:00.000-04:00

Headline: "Father Arrested for Trying to 'Opt-Out' Son from Gay Propaganda at Kindergarten" (ReligionJournal.com)

The father refused to leave the school unless his requests (that his son be excluded from amy teaching advocating homosexuality) were granted. Parker's requests had reportedly been denied by the principal, the director of education, and the superintendent. The police were summoned, who informed the father he would be arrested if he did not leave the school. When he did not, school officials had Parker arrested for trespassing.

The astute journalists at Religion Journal apparently feel comfortable characterizing this as an arrest for trying to opt his son out of gay propagandizing.