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jim wallis on schavio

i ran across the following quote in the lastest (april 6, 2005) issue of sojourner’s sojo mail:

    Personally, I cannot understand why parents willing to take care of their disabled daughter were not allowed to by a husband who had moved on to another life and family. Terri Schiavo was severely mentally disabled but was not dying, and we don’t decide to end the lives of many similarly disabled people, even children, whose mental capacities greatly diminish their quality of life. As my wife, Joy Carroll, put it, “the issue is not their quality of life, but the ethical quality of our society.” And in situations of medical, scientific, or legal complexity, the morally safer course is always to err on the side of life. However, it became painfully clear that for many political partisans the issue wasn’t so much the life of this young woman but other related political issues and agendas. And a leaked Republican memo about firing up the conservative base of the party and even defeating Democratic opponents in Florida were way out of line.

wallis’ point is not exactly about terri schavio, rather he is talking about being consistent across the board. we do not live in a very consistent society. thus our republicans love to protect fetuses and execute criminals while our democrats love to do the exact opposite. neither group can truly claim to be “pro-life.” instead they are “pro” their political party. we really are a screwed up group of people.

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looks like j.t.


my dark side
Originally uploaded by lomokev.

i was talking with j.t. about flickr and while i was talking i ran into this image from lomokev (one of my flickr contacts) which actually looks like j.t. so i decided to post the photo as an example. hey j.t.

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podcasting?

i’m thinking about podcasting the music and messages from the view. before i start learning about how to do this i figured i would ask if anyone would be interested in my doing this. so is anyone interested? podcasting is the audio equivalent of tivo. it allows you to automatically download audio off the internet (such as the recordings of the view) and transfer that audio to the mp3 player of your choice (or simply keep it on your computer).

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second again

i know i predicted this yesterday but i figured i would go ahead and make it official since the game last night … i got second in our “march madness” bracket competition with sparks getting first place by 1 point. here are the results:

    steven sparks – 249 – 38 games correct
    me – 248 – 37 games correct
    eddie hirst – 247 – 36 games correct
    sam jones – 237 – 36 games correct
    stephen ware- 237 – 35 games correct
    stephen miller – 220 – 36 games correct
    t lusk – 219 – 34 games correct
    kevin lee – 189 – 34 games correct
    blake wallace – 168 – 31 games correct
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almost but no cigar

i figured i would calm all of you who have been worried about how i was doing in my march madness bracket. my come back from 7th placed started this past weekend and i have good news and bad news to report. the good news is that i did dramatically pull up in the rankings. the bad news is that i will miss winning the bracket for the first time in three years. no matter who wins tonight (hopefully north carolina will win) sparks will beat me for the lead by ONE POINT. thus i will end in second place. so close yet so far away.

so sparks where do you want to go eat?

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beautiful (pictures) mission trip

beautiful feet 2005
please don’t think that i mean to suggest by my entry title that my pictures are beautiful. instead, i’m playing off the name of the church “beautiful feet”. anyways, i’ve setup a photo pool on flickr so that everyone can share their pictures. i’ve placed 43 of mine thus far. you can view them here.

i’lll summarize the trip when i’m a little less tired (maybe tonight). needless to say it was amazing.

SIDE NOTE – if you are already a member of flickr or would like to join flickr then you can join the beautiful feet photo group and add your own pictures.

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protect your ears

wing is a singer that you have got to hear. i have to warn you though that your life will never be the same again after you hear the melody of her vocal chords.

here are a few samples of her music:

just remember that once you listen to one of the above samples there is no turning back

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my wife is the greatest

pamela ann adkinson terrell is the greatest. she is the greatest for allot of reasons but the reason right now is because she is semi-forcing me to get an ipod. you see i have the habit of being incredibly cheap (a trait i inherited from my father). this is not something that i usually think of as a bad trait but it becomes a royal pain when it involves gift money. i have a habit of not spending money that has been given to me as a gift. i presently still have the money that my parents gave me for my birthday (november) and four gift cards to barnes and noble and best buy that i received for CHRISTmas. it’s not that i don’t want to spend the money and gift cards. it’s just that i will go to the store sure that i’m going to buy one particular thing and then when i get to the store i start to convince myself that i don’t really need the item and it’s simply a waste of money. personally, i usually think that is a good trait but not with gift money. gift money is meant for splurges. that’s the whole point of the money. i don’t think we should splurge much during normal every day life but birthday and gift money is something incredibly different.

so this is where pam comes into the story. she has decided that i am going to spend this built up money on an ipod. i’ve wanted to get one for awhile. i’ve priced them, researched them, figured out what color and model to get. yet every-time i think about it i realize that it is just a waste of money. of course, it is the perfect thing to spend gift money on. that’s what pam says and i believe her. so therefore when i get back from the beautiful feet mission trip i am going to order myself an ipod.

here’s where you get to participate. by ordering the ipod from apple i get two lines of text engraved on the back of it for free. i’m looking for a good 46 character quote. if you have one then help a brother out.

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beautiful feet medical release

if you are going on the beautiful feet mission trip alan has probably called and told you this by now but if not i’ll explain. the forms we passed out for the beautiful feet mission trip had a liability release on them instead of a mecial release. while, i would appreciate the church not getting sued over something i am much more concerned about making sure we can get medical treatment for someone if they are hurt. therefore, here’s the medical release. it is in adobe acorbat format so you will need the free adobe reader in order to view it. you computer must likely already has adobe reader on it.

we are leaving tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. it should be an amzing weekend.