Necessary Roughness

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Archive for September, 2005

Where the Holy Spirit DOES His Work
Friday, September 30th, 2005

Bunnie Diehl critiques an Ablaze! website. Rev. Juhl offers his comments in his journal, to which I ask, “Disbelief in the power of the Holy Spirit, ignorance of His duties, or both?” I can’t do too much about disbelief in general, but the second issue can be remedied.

Subject to the Needs of Law Enforcement
Thursday, September 29th, 2005

Warning to a certain Wichita geologist: keep your eyes peeled for the Feds!
A CNet technical blog reports that the Federal Communications Commission released a policy document that states you can run whatever you want on your computer, “subject to the needs of law enforcement” (page 3).
Today it seems that the FBI doesn’t like Voice over [...]

Flightplan Ruffles the Thin-Skinned
Thursday, September 29th, 2005

Reuters reports: “Labor unions representing most of the nation’s 90,000 flight attendants have urged their members to boycott a new Jodie Foster film that portrays a flight attendant and a U.S. air marshal as terrorists.”
The Missus and I saw Flightplan during our last day of vacation. Part of the suspense was wondering if the whole [...]

Lake Erie: 1 Trillion SCF Locked by Government
Wednesday, September 28th, 2005

I didn’t hear about this over the radio until today, but the Cleveland (OH) Plain Dealer reports that in a September 22 Ohio House hearing, Columbia Gas of Ohio estimated that 1,000,000,000,000+ cubic feet (I assume standard cubic feet, since that makes sense for the industry) of natural gas lies under Lake Erie.
But there are [...]

President Bush Has a Carter Moment
Monday, September 26th, 2005

The New York Times reports that “President Bush called on Americans yesterday to conserve gasoline by driving less. He also issued a directive for all federal agencies to cut their own energy use and to encourage employees to use public transportation.”
It would seem that the only President ever to hold a Masters in Business Administration [...]

Made It Home
Sunday, September 25th, 2005

We made it home safely, with a caveat: While we were in Hershey a couple of days ago, someone pointed out that one of our tires looked low, and we filled it. I didn’t see anything, so we carried on. Halfway home today my father-in-law did notice that a nail had punctured the tire, but [...]

Sesame Place - Langhorne, PA
Saturday, September 24th, 2005

The six of us reported to Sesame Place as directed, right as the park opened. There was an all-you-can-eat breakfast buffet which was pretty nice, but the pavilion was crowded and difficult to use with high chairs. It was chilly in the morning but warm in the afternoon.
After breakfast, we traversed the park, which turned [...]

Hershey, PA
Friday, September 23rd, 2005

During our foray into Pennsylvania we diverted to Hershey, home of Hershey’s chocolate. Amazingly enough there didn’t seem to be many restaurants featuring Hershey’s chocolate in the town itself; I’m left to assume it’s all in the Chocolate World theme park. Were we to come back again, we’d do some research first and probably take [...]

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