Nice Logic: Jane Spahr and Performing Marriages

So if the constitution says you cannot do something but you do it, there's nothing that can be done to you because you cannot do it so there's no penalty. I wonder how well our society would do with the same logic.

Hamas leader offers truce if Israel withdraws from 1967 lands

DAMASCUS, Syria - The leader of Hamas says his Palestinian militant group is offering Israel a 10-year truce if it withdraws from all lands it seized in the 1967 war.
Khaled Mashaal says he made the offer to former President Carter in talks on Saturday.

Mashaal says Hamas would accept a Palestinian state limited to the lands Israel seized in 1967 — an implicit acceptance that Israel would exist alongside that state.

But Mashaal says the group would never outright formally recognize Israel.

Wow! Ten whole years to give them everything they lost for attacking Israel! What a deal! Give us the land and we'll leave you alone for TEN WHOLE years.

Today's Sermon

Today, my pastor made a comment during the sermon that I swear was being directed at the lynching of Presbyman by certain commenters at Ben's blog. He said, that perception is all that matters in some Conservative circles rather than Truth. If you mispeak one little bit, it doesn't matter what your intent was, the mob dives in and attacks. He connected it to the Pharisees' intent in asking Jesus which is the greatest commandment. And also to the current political atmosphere.

As I left church today, I told him about the Presbyman affair and the whole Anti-Christ and Pope and Westminster discussion. And he just shook his head and agreed with me. I'm glad I'm not the only one besides Presbyman that thinks its getting ridiculous.

But I wonder what it was that he was referring to. He's doing a D-Min and I wonder if it had anything to do with his experience with that.

WordSearch 8

I have used Quickverse since around 1996 and its been an ok program. They sorta broke it in 2005 and I never upgraded again. In fact I kept using the older Quickverse 7 because 2005 just never worked right. Well I decided I was sick of Quickverse 7 and was going to upgrade to 2008. Well one thing that quickly annoys me is charging me more for shipping then it would cost to ship it to me. Lets see it would cost about .60 to send the cd in the mail and they wanted to charge me $10. I closed the browser and never went back.

Instead I began looking at WordSearch. And I ended up buying it. I like it a lot. Their Strong's actually works instead of the disaster that was Quickverse 2005. When I click on a link in WordSearch, it actually OPENS the link unlike Quickverse 2005 where I sit there trying to look at a map and it never opens and you have to switch to Quickverse 7. I was able to convert many of the Quickverse books into the WordSearch format rather cheaply. I only converted the ones I use so that's why it was cheap.

The only thing lacking in WordSearch that Quickverse was better on was Smarttags in Word. Other than that, I am quite happy with WordSearch. Presently, you can get WordSearch with a limited number of books by purchasing the one I did WordSearch 8 Thomas Chain Reference Library for $34.95. If the price is 49.95 goto the main page and click the Spring Sales and ad and the price will be adjusted. But that price certainly beats the $80 it would have cost to upgrade to 2008 of Quickverse Deluxe. It cost another $30 to upgrade the books I had in Quickverse that I wanted converted. To convert them all would have cost $255. I decided that if I really want to use one of those books, I'll open up Quickverse which remains on the computer.

Moral of the Story: Don't overcharge on shipping because it just makes me mad.

Whining Obama

Yeah 45 minutes... Why would it matter to the American people who he surrounds himself with? Why would it matter that his wife was never proud of America before her husband ran for president or feels that she will always be second class in the eyes of the majority of the people living in the country? Why does it matter that his pastor doesn't like the majority of the people living in the United States? Or the fact he sat in the pew for 20 years listening to it and never noticed? Why does it matter that he's friends with a 60s radical? Why does it matter that he won't wear a United States flag? Those are all irrelevant and tell us nothing about him. No. The people he spends time with says nothing about him.

Poor poor pitiful Obama. Sold down the river by the evil media for daring to question his decisions.

Previously thought Extinct Turtle Discovered in Vietnam

Researchers from the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo have discovered a rare giant turtle in northern Vietnam — a find that carries great scientific and cultural significance. Swinhoe's soft-shell turtle was previously thought to be extinct in the wild. Three other turtles of the species are in captivity, said experts from the Zoo's Asian turtle program.