December 29, 2018

Jesus doesn't believe in walls

Sharing here for the benefit of those who must contend with Trumpangelicals...

A friend of mine recently said, "My problem with those who take the Bible literally is that they don't take the Bible literally."

I know many who hold to a six-day creation, a global flood, a talking donkey and yet dismiss immediately what the Bible says about the treatment of immigrants.

In the literature arguing for a wall, I have not heard a single verse from the Bible used by my Evangelical kin in support — and there is a clear reason why: Displaced people are the heroes of the Bible; displaced people are the authors of the Bible. Abram was pushed into Egypt during a great famine. Jacob escaped from his brother in Haran, David twice fled and was cared for in foreign lands, and Joseph moved his family in a caravan to Egypt to avoid starvation. The heroes of the Bible are routinely those who embrace immigrants with mercy: Naomi adopted Ruth, Jethro embraced Moses, and the Widow of Zaraphath created a home for Elijah in the land of the Philistines' when he hid from Ahab...

https://www.greeleytribune.com/news/jeff-cook-jesus-doesnt-believe-in-walls/
(entire article text is in the comment section)

December 26, 2018

Oh, the irony . . .

On the front page of the paper, a story about a drunk driver crashing the car into the wall of a head shop. I don't recall any news stories about weed causing a driver to crash through a liquor store, maybe I just haven't been paying attention for the last fifty years?

https://www.greeleytribune.com/news/aurora-woman-arrested-after-truck-crashes-into-greeley-business-on-10th-street-early-tuesday-morning/

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December 24, 2018

For everyone at DU

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December 22, 2018

This is what

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December 21, 2018

What the ...

So my Toshiba laptop is being weird. Most of the time it behaves just fine, but lately it's started a very annoying thing. I'll be typing along, and all of a sudden the punctuation keys won't work; same for the right shift key. Most annoying is that the "enter" key stops working. Just now I had to go back and add the apostrophes. Any ideas what might be causing this? Big thanks in advance!


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December 18, 2018

Dear Santa

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December 17, 2018

Forward thinking

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December 15, 2018

Seasons Greetings, from Republicans

to seniors and disabled citizens:

The mailman brings the letter from Social Security, announcing a modest cost of living adjustment. Two days later the mailman brings a letter from the county, announcing a matching cut in SNAP benefits.


Ho frigging ho.


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December 14, 2018

NOT that kind of party!

We have a fundraiser coming up next month and I was asked to prep the invitation. The committee chair used her phone to send the text for the invite. Her phone's auto-correct did its thing, but just to be on the safe side I called to clarify that what she intended to send was "$100 per person" and not "$100 perversion." Methinks we both needed the giggle.


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December 12, 2018

turnabout

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