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 We all need some humor today - November 8, 2006!
 

Enjoy!

My young grandson called the other day to wish me Happy Birthday. He asked me how old I was, and I told him, "62." He was quiet for a moment, and then he asked, "Did you start at one?"
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After putting her grandchildren to bed, a grandmother changed into old slacks and a droopy sweatshirt and proceeded to wash her hair. As she heard the children getting more and more rambunctious, her patience grew thin. At last she threw a towel around her head and stormed into their room, putting them back to bed with stern warnings. As she left the room, she heard the three-year-old say with a trembling voice, "Who was THAT?"
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A grandmother was telling her little granddaughter what her own childhood was like: "We used to skate outside on a pond. I had a swing made from a tire; it hung from a tree in our front yard. We rode our pony. We picked wild raspberries in the woods." The little girl was wide-eyed, taking this in. At last she said, "I sure wish I'd gotten to know you sooner!"
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My grandson was visiting one day when he asked, "Grandma, do you know how you and God are alike?" I mentally polished my halo while I asked, "No, how are we alike?" "You're both old," he replied.
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A little girl was diligently pounding away on her grandfather's word processor. She told him she was writing a story. "What's it about?" he asked. "I don't know," she replied. "I can't read."
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I didn't know if my granddaughter had learned her colors yet, so I decided to test her. I would point out something and ask what color it was. She would tell me, and always she was correct. But it was fun for me, so I continued. At last she headed for the door, saying sagely, "Grandma, I think you should try to figure some of these out yourself!"
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When my grandson Billy and I entered our vacation cabin, we kept the lights off until we were inside to keep from attracting pesky insects. Still, a few fireflies followed us in. Noticing them before I did, Billy whispered, "It's no use, Grandpa. The mosquitoes are coming after us with flashlights."
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When my grandson asked me how old I was, I teasingly replied, "I'm not sure." "Look in your underwear, Grandma," he advised. "Mine says I'm four to six."
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A second grader came home from school and said to her grandmother, “Grandma, guess what? We learned how to make babies today." The grandmother, more than a little surprised, tried to keep her cool. "That's interesting," she said cautiously, "How do you make babies?" "It's simple," replied the girl. "You just change 'y' to 'i' and add 'es'"
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Children's Logic: "Give me a sentence about a public servant,” said a teacher. The small boy wrote: "The fireman came down the ladder pregnant."
The teacher took the lad aside to correct him. "Don't you know what pregnant means?" she asked. Sure," said the young boy confidently. "It means carrying a child."
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A nursery school teacher was delivering a station wagon full of kids home one day when a fire truck zoomed past. Sitting in the front seat of the fire truck was a Dalmatian dog. The children started discussing the dog's duties. They use him to keep crowds back," said one youngster. "No, said another, "he's just for good luck." A third child brought the argument to a close. "They use the dogs", she said firmly, "to find the fire hydrant."

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 One viewpoint on 2006 Federal Election
 

Here are the "lessons" from the wins of Casey, Strickland, and Brown, byJim Wallis:

When Democrats can run authentically as persons of faith, they can beat back the idolatrous claims of the Religious Right that God is only on their side. And when Democrats take a more morally sensible and centrist position on issues like abortion, they do better than liberal Democrats have done. These results are bad news for the “religious fundamentalists" who have far too much influence in the Republican Party, AND for the “secular fundamentalists” who have far too much influence in the Democratic Party. But it is good news for the majority of Americans who are alienated by the political extremes of right and left and are hungry for a new “moral center” for our public life."
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 VOTE!!! VOTE!!!! VOTE!!!
 

Where I am it is Monday, Nov. 6th - for some of you it is closer to Nov 7th! Election Day! Please vote - it is our civic duty! You have no right to complain on Nov 8 if you didn't vote on Nov. 7!!!!

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 Frustrations
 

For two weekends in a row, I have been working on a blog and then either my computer shuts down or it mysteriously erases.

I find this very frustrating because the things I find myself writing are issues that I believe many people are dealing with - the next thing I know I have a dead computor or a blank screen!!

What gives???
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 Lessons from a Trip to Germany, 2006 - Don't Mix Church and State
 

One of the wierd experiences, at least for this American, is to walk into the big cathedrals in Germany and see the grave stones of the princes and lords buried in the altar of the church. Even stranger is to see all kinds of statues in honor of the king, the emperor, and other royalty and maybe one statue of Jesus.

Remember you are walking into what is supposed to be a church - a building built to honor God.

However, the cathedrals were built by the local Lord as a testimony to his power, affluence and honor. By the way, they were built with slave labor who didn't have the technology we have today to move 1,000 pound stones 50 feet into the air. Some of the cathedrals separated the state and church part of the building by building a separate section where the emperor or the Lord would sit for coronation or special services.

We can blame all of this on Constantine the Great and the Edict of Milan in 313 C.E. Constantine became a Christian and decided that the whole Roman empire should be christian. So everybody was now a Christian!

What is even more striking in these cathedrals in Germany is how they changed from being Roman Catholic cathedrals into Lutheran cathedrals. This is the story. When the local Lord decided that he was a follower of Martin Luther instead of Rome (one argument being - he didn't have to share his taxes with the Pope) then the cathedral became a Lutheran Cathedral. Now this is what also happened, if your feudal lord decided one day he was Lutheran, you became a Lutheran too! You didn't become a Lutheran because you had some spiritual revelation - you became a Lutheran because your Lord said so!

All of this was the experience of the founders of our country when they wrote: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion."

So how are we doing? Are we still maintaining the separation of church and state?

I wonder about this when I walk into churches as I did this week and see American flags prominently displayed in the sanctuaries.
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