"Inside every older lady is a younger lady – wondering what the hell happened." — Cora Harvey Armstrong
"Inside me lives a skinny woman crying to get out. But I can usually shut her up with cookies." — unknown
"If you can't be a good example – then you'll just have to be a horrible warning." — Catherine
"I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb – and I'm also not blonde." — Dolly Parton
Thanks Shay
Now here is an idea to keep current in the cel phone era… portable phone booths. I wish they were smaller so that I could hand them out to the cel-phone-shouters of the world. Oh well until then I’ll just have to hold onto my SHHH! (See 12-11-04) cards.
Happy New Year!
A member of the UN has criticized the U.S. for being stingy in it’s relief efforts after the Tsunami. This is in spite of the fact that the United States has already pledged $35 Million to the cause, the largest of any nation. France by comparision has pledged $136,000, but no one seems to be giving them grief.
But the numbers are actually much farther apart than that: The U.S. is spending Millions to quickly airlift in large amounts of food and other aid in ADDITION to the $35M in monetary aid. Also, unlike Norway where the UN critic is from, all charitable contributions do not flow through the government. American Citizens have historically and will again I’m sure give millions of dollars without government direction to aid groups such as the red cross to help the countries and people affected by this natural disaster.
UPDATE: Apparently France noticed that most countries were giving cash amounts with a few more 0s and have now upped their donation to 1.3 Mil.
Ok, I found the song that I had been thinking of earlier. I should have realized that it was older than the work by Rich Mullins but OH WELL… whataya gonna do? So a little late for this year or really early for next year here is my Christmas song pick for the year: The Outlaw by Larry Norman.
Some say he was a poet, that he’d stand upon the hill,
That his voice could calm an angry crowd, or make the waves stand still,
That he spoke in many parables, that few could understand,
But the people sat for hours, just to listen to this man.
Some say he was a sorcerer, a man of mystery.
He could walk upon the water. He could make a blind man see,
That he conjured wine at weddings, and did tricks with fish and bread,
That he talked of being born again, and raised people from the dead.
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