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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008Rats! If the national Republican race goes anything like Florida’s primary then in November we’ll have a choice between a liberal and a socialist.
Rats! If the national Republican race goes anything like Florida’s primary then in November we’ll have a choice between a liberal and a socialist.
From the “Campus Ministry Update 2008″ published by the Ivy Jungle:
Religious People Give More: Religious Americans give more money and time to charitable causes than their non-religious neighbors. A new book by Arthur Brooks, Who Really Cares, analyzed ten data sets, concluding that religiosity is one of the best predictors of charitable giving. Religious citizens give 3.5 times more money, volunteer with organizations twice as often, are 57% more likely to help the homeless, and 66% more likely to donate blood than those who are not religious. The findings also paint an unexpected political picture as those who are more religious also tend to be more conservative in social and political issues. In fact, of the 25 states with above average charitable giving, 24 voted for George Bush in the last election. In Arkansas, citizens donate an average of 3.9% of their income, while in Massachusetts it is only 1.8%. Good news for religion, however, among religious people, the data showed nothing distinctive about those who consider themselves evangelicals. (Books and Culture January/February 2008 p. 11)
I did upgrade to Wordpress 2.3.2 (the latest version of the software that publishes this blog) today. The transition went smoothly with no problems.
I perceived by my earlier post that I get the most comments when I publish stuff that’s incomprehensible to most of my readers. So in an effort to generate more comments I respectfully submit the following:
Electile Dysfunction : the inability to become aroused over any of the choices for president put forth by either party in the 2008 election year.
Today I made some code changes to the template that displays this site. That little guitar that displays below each post is now part of the background code instead of code in each post. The advantage is that (1) I don’t have to cut code from a text editor and paste it into each post and (2) if I want to change the icon, I can just change it on the server by uploading a graphic with the name post_bullet.png. The disadvantage is that if I change the template, I have to make code changes to a few files in the new template.
Tomorrow we upgrade to Wordpress 2.3 (If I have time).
I got two more today: you know, those fancy labels sent from charitable organizations as a “free” gift to entice you to give a donation. Here are some of the address label contributors:
“I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it.”
Here are the tag rules:Link to the person that tagged you: Tasty (my sweet Dau)!Post the rules for the me-it’s-all-me on your blog. And here they are:Share 7 random and/or weird facts about yourself on your blog, tag 7 random people at the end of your post and include links to their blogs. Let each person know that they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.
So there, I’ve killed two birds with one post. The following folks are tagged: Mandy, Scoop, Vicki, and BLB. (I know it’s only four. I don’t have that many friends.)OK. I’m done with these tagington thingys.
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