What many consider to be the holiest day on the Jewish calendar began at sunset yesterday.
Yom Kippur is the Day of Atonement, where the faithful are to make amends for their sins against God and one another by acknowledging their transgressions and asking for forgiveness.
Happy Yom Kippur.
Wednesday Atonement Open Comments
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Gotta get up pretty early in the morning to beat Super Dave.
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#1 El Gordo, Naw, it’s only 5:56!
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Bob Dole was looking for the outrage out there? We were looking in the wrong places, it was hiding in the NFL fandom.
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Is there ‘posed to be a picture in the big square? If so I can’t see it.
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Rabbi blowing a horn.
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Never to early for a cheap shot. 😉
“Hi. This is Mitt Romney. Is Senator Lieberman in?”
“No, governor. This is Yom Kippur.”
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not even a blank box showin here…………..
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RUTRO – I am NOT liking THIS!
WhiskeyTangoFoxtrot??????
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Picture of Jewish guy playing horn for those who can’t see the lede picture. 😉
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Has Tom Tancredo been in my stash?
I am endorsing Amendment 64 not despite my conservative beliefs, but because of them. Throughout my career in public policy and in public office, I have fought to reform or eliminate wasteful and ineffective government programs. There is no government program or policy I can think of that has failed in such a unique way as marijuana prohibition.
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Our nation is spending tens of billions of dollars annually in an attempt to prohibit adults from using a substance objectively less harmful than alcohol. Yet marijuana is still widely available in our society. We are not preventing its use; we are merely ensuring that all of the profits from the sale of marijuana (outside the medical marijuana system) flow to the criminal underground.Tancredo’s common sense pro-64 article appeared alongside a plea from Colorado Attorney General John Suthers for people to continue to believe the social conservative authoritarian lie that cannabis prohibition is effective and necessary. Yes, I’m biased. I’m also right.
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If we would just end the war on a silly plant, then conservative politicians would suddenly have glitter and rainbows shooting out their a$$es.
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I changed the picture, btw.
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#12 – Yep
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The word “scapegoat” came from the ancient Jewish tradition of ridding themselves of sins. A goat would be selected, a priest would lay hands on the goat and “transfer” the sins of the people onto the goat, and the goat would be driven out into the desert. Whether the goat lived or died was up to God at that point.
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ancient Jewish tradition of ridding themselves of sins.
1) It is not a Jewish tradition per se, it is a commandment from THE CREATOR for all of Israel.
2) There were always two goats, and one was sacrificed with the blood sprinkled and the flesh burned completely, the other was treated as you have stated. -
#15 Boney
I wasn’t splitting hairs. I’m assuming the dead goat would not be the “scapegoat”. And if the commandment was for all of Israel, I’m assuming it included the Jews. -
found on Drudge: 5,500 new galaxies cataloged by Hubble telescope pictures here
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That was an impressive view, wasn’t it? I don’t know whether to feel insignificant or not.
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#18: Consider that right here on Earth is the only intelligent life in existence, the expanse of the cosmos simply demonstrates the incredible EXTRAVAGANCE of THE CREATOR. It gives a slight glimpse into HIS omnipotence and just how big HE really is.
Even if there is other intelligent life out there, in one of the millions of galaxies of which we are aware, HE still put them in place and HE is in control.
It makes me feel very small and insignificant, yet at the same time in absolute awe at the depth of HIS LOVE in the sacrifice that HE chose to make for humanity and that includes me. -
This story is linked on Drudge about a man killed by a government ordered steamroller.. It is an infowars story and appears to be a fake as there is an absurd lack of blood on the scene. Even someone as lacking in computer skills as I am can see that this should not be linked by Drudge. The good news is that the comments section is full of people crying BS and pointing out the obvious inconsistencies of the story.
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Just checked on the FLA Senate race for the first time in months.
It’s not looking good, Hammie.
Does Nelson have coat tails that Obama can use?
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Good morning Hamsters. And a Blessed Yom Kippur to our Jewish friends.
Surely no accident that the evil ImmaDinnerjacket of Iran will be speaking today to the UN General Assembly. 🙁 -
#8 Katfish
Saw that astounding article. But we must remember that Planet California is really in one of the galaxies the Hubble discovered in deep ancient space. What we see on the west coast is merely a very sophisticated holo-suite production. 🙂 -
Shannon says:
September 26, 2012 at 9:12 am
Just checked on the FLA Senate race for the first time in months.
It’s not looking good, Hammie.
Does Nelson have coat tails that Obama can use?
(Scroll down to the Race Analysis for some interesting FLA history.)It gets worse.
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#17 Bonecrusher
Keep in mind that all of the visible objects in that picture are galaxies, each one containing billions of stars.
Now multiply that by 5,500 (the number in that particular region of space).
Now multiply that by about 75,000,000 (the number of squares of about 150″ of arc on a side in a sphere)
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G’Morning All
Obama’s not drawing the crowds he did four years ago. Back then the motto was Hope and Change,
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One should not give up, neglect, or forget for a moment his inner life,
but he must learn to work in it, with it, and out of it, so that the unity
of his soul may break out in all his activities.
–Meister EckhartWhat is a “spiritual experience”? To me it is something that brings about a personality change.
This change is not necessarily in the nature of a sudden and spectacular upheaval.
We do not need to acquire an immediate and overwhelming God-consciousness followed at once by a vast change in feeling and outlook.
For me, the change was gradual. Today, I see a gradual and continuing change in myself. Today I am living in the moment, instead of living for a moment. -
As of this writing, if Krugman accepts Murphy’s debate invitation, more than $73,000 will go to the Fresh Food Program of FoodBankNYC.org, a non-profit organization Krugman’s the New York Times says “delivers food to nearly all of the city’s food pantries and soup kitchens.”
If Krugman does not accept the debate, the food bank will receive no funds, and none of the people who have pledged money will be charged. More than $77,000 has been pledged so far.
According to blogger Brian LaSorsa, this situation is a win-win for Austrian School of economics:There are only two possible outcomes: (1) Krugman approves and Murphy gets the chance to engage in an open and honest debate about economic policy while delivering a huge bag of money to a food bank’s doorstep, or (2) Krugman disapproves and we reveal a redistributionist as hypocritical.
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#27 OLT
Sometimes God enters your heart by flinging open the door and announcing “I AM HERE!”
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Sometimes he’s just sitting there waiting on you to show up.
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The more I study the Senate races the more I want to slap around Todd Akin.
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Andy Williams has died
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That makes me sad. He was one of those with the beautiful voices.
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#32 – Years ago I’d have changed the station – ah reckon my ears got older and more tasteful in what sounds enjoyable eh?
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“Don’t like [Obama] at all. I think he wants to create a socialist country. The people he associates with are very Left-wing. One is registered as a Communist.” -Andy Williams
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Any of you people know of a store in town that sells scientific glassware? I’m looking for Pyrex petri dishes right now, but I’m also interested in some more elaborate glassware in the future.
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#18 Pyro-perv:
A report on the subject has gone viral on Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter. A website is offering the device on sale for $2,800, saying “it can give patients very comfortable feeling“.
I think they might be understating the effect. Seeing as how there is a wimmins shortage in China, there could be a very lucrative secondary market for the machine, including rentals.
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They should just meet with one of Sarge’s acquaintances outside the main gate at Fort whatever. It’ll only cost them $20.
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#37 Designer Drug Burner, the EPO near NASA has a wide selection of glassware on hand.
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This just dropped in my inbox and I would hope that every Christian or Jewish run business would follow suit.
Christian companies can’t bow to sinful mandate
By David Green
When my family and I started our company 40 years ago, we were working out of a garage on a $600 bank loan, assembling miniature picture frames. Our first retail store wasn’t much bigger than most people’s living rooms, but we had faith that we would succeed if we lived and worked according to God’s word. From there, Hobby Lobby has become one of the nation’s largest arts and crafts retailers, with more than 500 locations in 41 states. Our children grew up into fine business leaders, and today we run Hobby Lobby together, as a family.
We’re Christians, and we run our business on Christian principles. I’ve always said that the first two goals of our business are (1) to run our business in harmony with God’s laws, and (2) to focus on people more than money. And that’s what we’ve tried to do. We close early so our employees can see their families at night. We keep our stores closed on Sundays, one of the week’s biggest shopping days, so that our workers and their families can enjoy a day of rest. We believe that it is by God’s grace that Hobby Lobby has endured, and he has blessed us and our employees. We’ve not only added jobs in a weak economy, we’ve raised wages for the past four years in a row. Our full-time employees start at 80% above minimum wage.
But now, our government threatens to change all of that. A new government healthcare mandate says that our family business must provide what I believe are abortion-causing drugs as part of our health insurance. Being Christians, we don’t pay for drugs that might cause abortions. Which means that we don’t cover emergency contraception, the morning-after pill or the week-after pill. We believe doing so might end a life after the moment of conception, something that is contrary to our most important beliefs. It goes against the Biblical principles on which we have run this company since day one. If we refuse to comply, we could face $1.3 million per day in government fines.
Our government threatens to fine job creators in a bad economy. Our government threatens to fine a company that’s raised wages four years running. Our government threatens to fine a family for running its business according to its beliefs. It’s not right.
I know people will say we ought to follow the rules; that it’s the same for everybody. But that’s not true. The government has exempted thousands of companies from this mandate, for reasons of convenience or cost. But it won’t exempt them for reasons of religious belief. So, Hobby Lobby — and my family — are forced to make a choice. With great reluctance, we filed a lawsuit today, represented by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, asking a federal court to stop this mandate before it hurts our business. We don’t like to go running into court, but we no longer have a choice. We believe people are more important than the bottom line and that honoring God is more important than turning a profit.
My family has lived the American dream. We want to continue growing our company and providing great jobs for thousands of employees, but the government is going to make that much more difficult. The government is forcing us to choose between following our faith and following the law. I say that’s a choice no American — and no American business — should have to make.
David Green is the CEO and founder of Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.HEY ZERO! They built that without governmental help or interference.
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Now this is a surprise,…..NOT; 55 percent of small business owners would not start company today, blame Obama.
Fifty-five percent of small business owners and manufacturers would not have started their businesses in today’s economy, according to a new poll that also reports 69 percent say President Obama’s regulatory policies have hurt their businesses.
“There is far too much uncertainty, too many burdensome regulations and too few policymakers willing to put aside their egos and fulfill their responsibilities to the American people,” said Jay Thomas, president of the National Association of Manufacturers, which commissioned the poll along with the National Federation of Independent Businesses. “To fix this problem, we need immediate action on pro-growth tax and regulatory policies that put manufacturers in the United States in a position to compete and succeed in an ever-more competitive global economy.” -
#36 Pyro: I wonder if that machine is like one of these?
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Paradoxical Quote of The Day
From Ben Stein: “Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured…
But not everyone must prove they are a citizen.”
Now add this, “Many of those who refuse, or are unable, to prove they are citizens will receive free insurancepaid for by those who are forced to buy insurance because they are citizens.”
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Good for Hobby Lobby. May they experience the support of the Chick-fil-A effect and the Empty Chair effect.
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further to my #42 above: I seem to recall that the mooslimes were exempt from the Ocare law because, according to mooslime doctrine, insurance = gambling and gambling is prohibited. So the bastiges who jammed the healthcare law down our throats were willing to make an exemption for one group (mooslimes) based on religious grounds but refused that same consideration to others (Christians, Catholics, Baptists, etc) because . . . . . why? This is one issue that every business owner who is opposed to the abortion, abortifascient, contraceptive mandate contained in the OCare law, should file an individual suit and name every member of the House and Senate (who voted in favor of the law) plus the Prez, plus the HHS secretary and the US Gvt as a whole in the suit, make them all jointly and severally liable. The avalanche of law suits will clog the courts and bring it all to a standstill. This is not a case where class action is acceptable. How can govt mandate how or if a private business chooses to insure its employees?
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#49 Pyro: While it is tragic that he died, at least he died doing what he loved.
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Drummers hang out with bass players and are exposed to all that bad influence.
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Some of y’all may be aware that I do not follow the Hillel calendar when reckoning the feast days outlined in The Torah. Below is a very good explanation for that:
Bereshit (Genesis) 1:14 states that he gave us the luminaries in the firmament to
separate day and night, moadiym which is the appointments or also known
as seasons and feast days. A day begins in the evening which is
darkness and the month begins also in darkness and the year as well.
The beginning of each month or the number of days that the moon is dark
varies from month to month. Father brings people from death to life by
his Ruach (Spirit) that is from darkness to light (mans teachings to
Gods teachings). The first light seen on the moon represents from
darkness to light a death/burial,separation and finally resurrection.
It usually occurs on the third day from the moon going dark but that is
not always the case. That third day is not really the third day of the
month but it can be. The lunar month has 30 days assigned to it with an
average of 29.5 days of light. God adds the darkness as extra days
since he knows who is spiritually dead and he brings to life. most
people kill themselves trying to figure out the 30 day month riddle.
Always the brightest part or 100 % illumination occurs on the
fifteenth. Now there can be several days of 100% illumination but the
15th always falls at the peak of the lunar graph. In other words when
one plots out consecutive months than it becomes evident that there are
30 days in a lunar cycle separated by one or more days with darkness
covering all or part of a day. Counting forward and backwards gives us
confirmation. But before the NASA lunar charts were not available to
man no man knew the day or hour when the moon would go dark and for how
long!
The hillel calendar and the video you saw do not take this into
account. Everything begins in a dead state(Darkness) including our
souls. We must be born again. Not by only his TORAH but also by the
spirit John 3.If you have ever wondered why we have a moon, that answer is above as well.
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I wonder why my comment is in the moderation box?
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Maybe HAL is hatin’ on the Tribe?
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I guess HAL doesn’t read HEBREW or the English transliteration thereof.
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#51 – I resemble dat remark! 🙂
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I guess HAL doesn’t read HEBREW or the English transliteration thereof.
Just a guess, but it looks like HAL read the first word in the blockquote and thought it was something done in the woods.
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#48 I’ve heard things from all over the spectrum on the Muslim exemption question.
Whether Muslims would qualify for an exemption from the health insurance requirements is more difficult to define, as Islam is a much larger religion with practices that vary according to sect and region. Although Islam does have a tradition of barring conventional insurance products because they “involve an element of uncertainty, gambling and the charging of interest, which are prohibited by the Koran,” some Muslim groups make exceptions for insurance which is required by law (such as automobile insurance), and some Muslim groups do not have objections to medical insurance. Most likely, though, Muslims would not qualify for an exemption from U.S. health insurance requirements because U.S. Muslims do not have a tradition of spurning Social Security (which is viewed more as a form of caring for those who are unable to meet their own needs than as something which involves elements of uncertainty, gambling, and interest payments), and no Muslim group has ever qualified for an exemption under the guidelines which define which religious groups would be exempt from the health care law.
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A tale of a bird and a bee. A large bluejay took over the fountain on the patio and has been leisurely bathing in the upper basin for a few minutes, announcing to one and all that it is his territory for now and everybody else stay out. A tiny honey bee has also been there taking a drink, staying on the opposite side of the upper basin and minding its own business, and of course the jay is annoyed. He has fluffed himself up twice normal size and looks really nasty, charging at the bee, who flies out of reach and circles above for a few rounds and then returns when the jay is facing the other way. This kabuki dance continues for a few minutes, with the jay’s complaints getting louder and the bee not giving up his drink. Finally he finishes his bath and leaves after a final scold.
The bee gets his drink and lazily flies away, and the fountain is left in peace. But five minutes later the jay–or a jay–is back on the upper basin, scolding and looking around, and making one pass at splashing himself, but that’s all. Since nobody’s nearby, he shouts something defiant and glares in all directions, then flits off. No sign of the bee or any of its friends. Wonder what goes on at the fountain overnight that we miss. 🙂 -
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I had a longish day at the office and I’m still a bit dingy from a 2-hr staff meeting. Now I’m almost afraid to open Drudge and see what the Dims have been up to today while I was makin’ a livin’.
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Looked at the weather first. That 60% chance of rain for my zip code on Saturday looks good.
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Oh crap. Drudge is covered with pix of squinting Dims! Well, mebbe some of ’em are winking. Sebelius isn’t squinted up, but she looks like she has applied for a job in the Star Trek officers corps.
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#63 mharper42
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Am I killing da blog? Oh well, here’s a 6 min video medley with highlights & signature gaffe lines from the Obama Years. My favorite is at 0:47 with Barbara “Call Me Senator” Boxer chewing out a Brigadier General for calling her Ma’am. He replies, “Yes, sir.”
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#59 Adee 😀 The only thing better would be a Mockingbird, they get real P.O.ed and squwak loud if they don’t get their way. Nothing like a a Mocker dive bombing a house cat. 😉
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#65 mharper42 I remember that exchange and that the IDIOT Boxer had no idea that Military Protocol requires him to address her as Ma’am. 🙁
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I guess Hugh Hewitt has been disssecting the latest polls. If you want to see a pure smackdown of a punk J School journalist by a serious professional, you gotta read this interview. A small sample- oh, the subject matter is good too:
SS: The second thing I would say is that if for a poll to achieve that, I think that there would be something else at work here, where the poll wasn’t properly weighted to match the actual demographic characteristics of the electorate. So you’d probably see something off when it comes to race, or something off when it comes to age, whether it has too many seniors, or an electorate that skews too young, or an electorate that is maybe 55% male when it probably should be 48-49% male.
HH: But don’t you have to massage, again, I’m coming back to basic polling methodology, and I’ve been doing this since 1976 as an undergrad with Gary Oren and Bill Schneider, and I know this stuff, though I must just be, what did you call me? A radio jock? Is that what you called me in your story?
SS: I believe it was radio talk show host on first mention.
HH: That the radio jock, I’m quoting here. That’s derogatory, isn’t it?
SS: I didn’t think…it was not intended to be derogative.
HH: Just questioning a little bit there, because you are, you’re a graduate of the George Washington University, right?
SS: I am indeed.
HH: 2004?
SS: That’s correct.
HH: Makes you 28?
SS: 29.
HH: 29. Okay, just checking, because I’m dealing with an expert here. So I want to know, from your expert available advice, if you’re measuring and you’re weighting some demographics, what is the argument from the science as to why you wouldn’t weight the self-described demographic of party affiliation, but you would weight all the other ones, which are also, by the way, self-described?Read the transcript here. It was sweet.
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As wagonburner would say, it’s time to play “name that state”
Drunk man on horseback leads cops on chase through Bunnell, authorities say.
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#68 Tim
I heard that exchange on the air. Hewitt’s show is rerun late at night on 1070 AM. No 29-yr-old brat is going to make much headway arguing with Hugh Hewitt. Hugh rubbed “radio jock” in the kid’s face a number of times. -
Hey Mia Love is on Scar-face’s show! 😀
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I just got back from teaching my second class of the year. I got the ultimate compliment. One student is attending the local Catholic high school, and I told her she didn’t have to come to my class, though she’ll have to come to class next year. “Unless, of course, you just WANT to come,” I said, “I’m always up for more students!” She said that she really liked the class and wanted to keep coming.
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Don’t get the big head over it.
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GoodJob Ms TT !
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#73 – *too LATE!*
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#73
It’s always a good feeling to know you’re appreciated. And when I hear stuff like this, I know I’m doing what God wants me to do, and that’s a good feeling, too. -
Didn’t say it wasn’t a good thing.
Just don’t get the big head over it. 😉
Humility in all things.
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