Mark's Views, Perhaps — from behind my eyeballs
Today Alphabet/Google gently broke the tether that bound many a soul to its wanna-be-better-than-Facebook social media platform: Google Plus. Read it all
Federal Judge Gary Miller in Texas ruled on Friday that a military draft as the US has used it in the past is unconstitutional.
Before you start cheering, be aware that the focus isn’t on the draft but on its male-only nature. In other words, this is about making the military draft constitutional by drafting women as well. Judge Miller proclaimed that “the time has passed” to be debating whether or not women belong in the US military.
Though the US has no military draft at the present (and hasn’t had any since the last millennium), it does require young men to register for the draft with the Selective Service System. (Young men, it is your duty under God to comply. If you’re 18 or older, get yourself to a Post Office and do it.) Read it all
I am to speak on that subject at our congregation this coming Sunday evening. I intend my presentation to be practical help for Sunday School teachers and Vacation Bible School teachers, for school teachers, and for other public speakers at church events. I hope it has its inspirational moments for the other listeners as well. 🙂
I don’t know if I have 20 minutes or 40 — I think I’ll find out Sunday morning. That gives me the afternoon to adjust my notes accordingly.
Monday evening I started jotting down random notes, here’s what I have so far: Read it all
The Case of the Misaligned Government Arrow
Out there. Low in the west. Somewhere. The blue moon. The supermoon. The eclipsed moon during totality.
I believe that fully. Though I cannot see it at all. Weird, huh?
I see this morning that yesterday’s health tax ballot here in Oregon passed handily.
I don’t know if the yea voters did so in a fit of largesse at the public trough. Or if they poked the Yes key (is there such a thing?) out of consistency with their well-practiced personal pocketbook expressions of compassion for the needy.
Whatever the motivator, they approved a pile of new tax dollars for hospitals: Read it all