Mark's Views, Perhaps β from behind my eyeballs
I certainly could use more, but this isn’t my problem:
| Can’t get the sandman to stop by? Quit calling the guy. According to reports from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, talking on a cell phone before heading to bed can prevent a person from getting a good night’s sleep. |
The more I learn about cellphones, the less I like them. π―
But I still like mine enough to keep it. π³
Steven Stark has an interesting perspective over at RealClearPolitics :
| The Republican race is coming into focus. Well, sort of. If John McCain can win the Florida primary on January 29, he’ll be the clear front-runner heading into Super Tuesday a week later.
But Florida is hardly a sure thing for McCain. Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, and Mitt Romney are contesting the state heartily. Plus, Florida is a closed primary, meaning Independents can’t participate — and McCain polls far worse in contests where only Republicans can vote. If McCain loses in Florida, the Republicans may well be headed to a deadlocked race and convention. And history teaches us that the likeliest candidate to emerge in that scenario is someone like Warren G. Harding: the prototypical, less-than-stellar candidate to which conventions turn when the going gets rough. This year’s Harding? Believe it or not (are you sitting down?), despite the fact that he’s withdrawn from the race, is Fred Thompson. |
That could be interesting, no? π
Meanwhile, down at the ranch American Prospect, Spencer Ackerman writes:
| Indeed, Petraeus can basically write his next round of orders. But wherever he goes, his next important campaign probably won’t be on any battlefield. It’ll be political. For the past year, the GOP has laid the groundwork to enlist Petraeus as its standard-bearer in the fairly likely event that the party loses in November to Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. You read it here first. Plant your lawn signs now. Petraeus 2012: Surging to the White House. |
But maybe you actually read it here first, eh? π
If the Petraeus thing were to happen, Hillary could trot out her famous “willing suspension of disbelief” line. π
I thought he would have made the race much more interesting.
And maybe he did.
But now we won’t know for sure.
Because Fred Thompson dropped out. (No, I’m not linking to any blogs or news stories about the matter.)
Too bad he left, I think.
On the other hand, it’s surely part of God doing part what the Ancient of Days does — setting up and taking down rulers.
I rest in that.
And I look forward to learning more of what He is up to in the US Presidential election.
Oh, and here’s the requisite statement on the subject: Maybe Fred’s departure is another signal to me to start making public the planks of the platform of my own Presidential campaign. (I suppose you still think I’m joking, eh?)
We were in Mexico City 26 years ago.
These buses were needed then. I’m sure they’re even more needed now.
| Mexico City starts grope-free buses for women
Mexico City has started a women-only bus service to protect female passengers from groping and verbal abuse common on the city’s packed public transportation system. Millions of people cram into subway trains and buses in the Mexican capital, one of the world’s largest cities, and women have long complained of abuse from men taking advantage of overcrowding to sneak in an inappropriate grab. |
I just read this via WordlMagBlog:
| Pakistani Christian Murdered in Peshawar
A Pakistani Christian working for the relief and development agency Shelter Now has been murdered in Peshawar. 29-year old Sajeed Williams was on his way home January 17, when a masked man opened fire and killed him. The gunman is at large ; his motives are unknown, as the director of the German Shelter Now branch, Udo Stolte, told the evangelical news agency Γ’β¬ΕideaΓ’β¬Β. Williams was married ; the couple has an 18-month old daughter. He was office manager for Shelter Now in Peshawar. The organization runs two projects in the country Γ’β¬β a fish farm and a building project for 105 schools, which were ruined during the earthquake that shook Pakistan in 2005. |
He has his reward. May God bless and comfort and shield and hold near his wife and daughter.
Here he is:
That’s from a cellphone picture I took 20-25 minutes after he was born late, late, late on 12/21/07.
Here he is the evening of 1/14/08:
The top picture I emailed to a few people . . . and forgot to put it here right away. π
Trenton is Luke and LaVay Mullet’s child.
And our third grandchild!
I saw this in the Molalla (Oregon) Safeway parking lot in the 11:00 o’clock hour this morning:
Is that a global warming statement?
Is it a message for bears or for Al Gore?
Maybe you ought to call that number and ask.
π