Saturday, February 18, 2012
Offline & Whitney
My DSL modem is down & I don't know what exactly the problem is. Nor is my service provider likely to identify it, what with phone service reps of unknown nationality, sounding like they're at home taking care of the kids at the same time, reading exactly the same troubleshooting tips as on my DSL disk, none of which suggest the modem itself might fail after several years & offering a way to test that possibility. I'm at Gina's. One benefit of being offline is last night I dropped by to check e mail & actually had a drink & socialized with Gina for a few hours. We watched some horse racing & wrestling.
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Well yeah. a lot of rich people would be broke if God were the kind of God who reached into bank accounts & investment portfolios & miraculously transferred the contents to the Elizabeth Coalition for the Homeless, leaving a message: I hoped you'd give some of this away, & you didn't, so I took it all.
They don't preach a "prosperity" gospel at New Hope Baptist in Newark like Creedo Dollar on television. There is a free class on managing finances. In Newark there's lots of ways to become prosperous, most of them illegal & evil & very tempting for poor people.
Much complaining about NJ Gov. Christie lowering flags to half staff for Whitney Houston. Complaints generally include one of both of these rationales: She was an out-of-control dope addict. The flag doesn't get lowered for "real" heroes, cops, firefighters, military who die in the line of duty.
There's no adequate response to this. Flags do get lowered locally for military & first-responders. If you think they should be lowered at all government facilities, take it up with Christie. I think they should have been lowered on 9/12/01 & left there, as two presidents tried to distract us from the daily carnage of two wars. Go shopping.
What was it Whitney did to hurt you personally? I didn't catch that part. She gave you a lot of music. You didn't have to pay attention to her personal problems. Really. I rarely did. Whitney is from musical royalty in this state; her mother Cissy, her aunts Dionne & the late Dee Dee Warwick. At the least those flags are lowered to show respect for Cissy Houston & New Hope for nurturing Whitney's talent.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
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"Would someone here tell me who God would want to be broke?"
Rev. Marvin Winans on "Prosperity Gospel" at Whitney Houston funeral.You needed to think on this one a bit more, Pastor Winans, Nobody comes to mind? Not an international arms dealer or Mexican drug cartel boss or heartless Wall Street business buster? How about the pimps?
Well yeah. a lot of rich people would be broke if God were the kind of God who reached into bank accounts & investment portfolios & miraculously transferred the contents to the Elizabeth Coalition for the Homeless, leaving a message: I hoped you'd give some of this away, & you didn't, so I took it all.
They don't preach a "prosperity" gospel at New Hope Baptist in Newark like Creedo Dollar on television. There is a free class on managing finances. In Newark there's lots of ways to become prosperous, most of them illegal & evil & very tempting for poor people.
Much complaining about NJ Gov. Christie lowering flags to half staff for Whitney Houston. Complaints generally include one of both of these rationales: She was an out-of-control dope addict. The flag doesn't get lowered for "real" heroes, cops, firefighters, military who die in the line of duty.
There's no adequate response to this. Flags do get lowered locally for military & first-responders. If you think they should be lowered at all government facilities, take it up with Christie. I think they should have been lowered on 9/12/01 & left there, as two presidents tried to distract us from the daily carnage of two wars. Go shopping.
What was it Whitney did to hurt you personally? I didn't catch that part. She gave you a lot of music. You didn't have to pay attention to her personal problems. Really. I rarely did. Whitney is from musical royalty in this state; her mother Cissy, her aunts Dionne & the late Dee Dee Warwick. At the least those flags are lowered to show respect for Cissy Houston & New Hope for nurturing Whitney's talent.
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