Today Halliburton had their Annual Chili Cookoff (last year’s pictures).
The chili entries weren’t as good this year, but our department’s mild version was still pretty good. We had competitions for “hot” and “mild.” A lot of the hot receipes had too much habanero in them. I can handle heat, but habanero makes chili taste weird. [...]
The New York Times has an interesting article about hospitals that are providing free basic health care to uninsured patients. Their incentive is primarily financial:
In one 18-month period, Ms. Dodd, 38, was rushed almost monthly to the emergency room, spent weeks in the intensive care unit and accumulated more than $191,000 in unpaid bills.
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With patients [...]
Pastor Weedon of Hamel, IL, posted his sermon for the celebration of the Reformation. Usually I don’t see sermons on blogs until closer to the day they are given; Weedon seems to be quite industrious.
The homily focuses on the role of the Word in our lives. It is a must read.
Thanks, Pastor Weedon, [...]
HT: Newsbusters
After the Michael J. Fox ad Sunday night endorsed Claire McCaskill and implicitly supported Missouri’s Amendment 2, another ad will run Wednesday featuring Kurt Warner (former St. Louis Rams quarterback), Jeff Suppan (St. Louis Cardinals pitcher), Mike Sweeney (Kansas City Royals first baseman), Patricia Heaton, and Jim Caviezel speaking out against Amendment 2.
U.S. Newswire reports that a lawsuit has been brought against Motorola in U.S. District Court by a California man. His complaint? There were no warnings in the packaging of Motorola’s Bluetooth headsets that they could cause hearing loss.
“The American Speech-Hearing-Language Association recently included the Motorola’s H700 Bluetooth in a safety test, comparing it [...]
The Houston Chronicle has an article that focuses Muslim women who left Roman Catholicism for Islam.
They told a visitor of their reasons for converting: they were attracted by the simplicity of Islam; the fact that they could pray directly to God without an intermediary (something they could do under Catholicism as well); Islam’s focus on [...]
Monergon has posted the thirty-fifth edition of the Lutheran Carnival on her and her husband’s blog, Theomony. The Divine Mrs. M. is proof that if you want something done, give it to the busy person. If you need another reason to check out their blog, take a look at the header graphic that was used [...]
All right, you’re a diplomat in the employment of the United States. Things, honestly, aren’t going well. Your job is to reduce tensions between Shia, Sunni, and Kurdish people in Iraq. You are an agent of change.
Is this something you’d say to help everyone get along with each other and the U.S.:
“We tried to do [...]
