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  1. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    o/c pic: LOL!

  2. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    I’m watching Meet the Mormons but stopped at the last 29 minutes of that movie. So far I’ve “met’ and energetic bishop in Atlanta, Georgia passionate about his family roots and brining that to the youth he is in contact with, the head football coach for the US Navy football team who made a conscious decision not to have any meetings on Sundays with his staff, who has personal challenges to overcome like anyone else and how living the gospel of Jesus Christ brings him blessings through his decisions to overcome his personal struggles, a martial arts couple very devout and loving to their family and how putting the principles of the gospel first and foremost in their lives has helped them make good decisions, and a former military pilot who, by the prompting of the Holy Spirit began a candy drop over East Berlin after WWII and Stalin’s decision to cut off East Berlin from the rest of the world. He became known as the Candy Bomber and his act of service was infectious.

    It is thus far an excellent movie. I’m tired right now but I fully plan to finish through it soon. It’s on Netflix if anyone has a subscription.

    http://meetthemormons.com/

  3. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    I was going to go to bed but I got caught up reading this article. It’s about what Judaism could learn from Mormonism. I really enjoyed how the article gives several facts and tidbits regarding the orthodoxies and orthopraxis of both faiths and as far as I can tell, are very accurate.

    http://ejewishphilanthropy.com/what-jews-can-learn-from-mormons-insights-from-the-church-of-jesus-christ-of-latter-day-saints/

  4. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Is that pronounced cheesus?

  5. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Happy 60th Birthday, Shannon !

    Hope it’s a great day for you.

  6. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Notables born on July 10th

    William Blackstone, legal genius
    John Calvin, Protestant religious reformer/theologian
    Adolphus Busch, brewmeister
    Ima Hogg, philanthropist
    Jack “Legs” Diamond, bootlegger
    Bela Fleck, musical genius
    Cindy Sheehan, nutjob for the ages

  7. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Dang, 60 used to be old.

    Happy Birthday Shannon!

  8. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    TGIF!
    Happy Birthday Shannon, you old fart!
    Mornin’ Gang

  9. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Happy Birthday Shannon! Many more to come.
    Hey, these days 60 is just nicely mature. 🙂

  10. Sarge Avatar

    Dang youngsters always causing trouble—–

  11. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    When Shannon was a toddler, he wouldn’t talk. Our mother kept taking him to doctors to find out what was wrong with him. Finally, he started talking when he was nearly three and, of course, he never has stopped talking since.

  12. Dooood Avatar

    Happy birthday to the old guy!

  13. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Happy Birthday Shannon, you are much older than I. :>)

  14. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    11
    Those ‘in the know’ are rolling on the floor at that one. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black .

  15. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Thanks for the birthday wishes, y’all.

  16. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Texpat should be called Katfish II.
    Mouth never stops moving on either one.

  17. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/the-pope/11730371/Pope-calls-for-an-end-to-the-murders-of-Christians-in-the-Middle-East-and-beyond.html
    When this pope calls capitalism dung of the devil and smiles as he views a crucifix on a commie hammer and sickle I like him less and less. I think he is a Marxist at heart.

  18. Katfish Avatar

    Well it’s about TIME you ‘caught up’ Brother geez

    Welcome to decade #6!!!
    (actually decade #7 eh?)

  19. Tedtam Avatar

    Happy birthday, Shannon! And many, many more!

    And don’t let the “talks a lot” comments bother you. It’s when you stop talking that you’ve got problems!

  20. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Bonecrusher
    Did you not read of his negative reaction to the sickle crucifix ?

  21. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Happy birthday, Shannon!

    60 is the new 48.

  22. El Gordo Avatar

    At 60 the fun is just beginning. You can now publicly embarrass your children, sit around mumbling about anything you want to, take a nap every day, be grouchy, hog the bathroom, and do other things you always wanted to get away with. Enjoy.

  23. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    LOIS AND KEVIN: The Wall Street Journal reports emails show former IRS official Lois Lerner and Wisconsin Government Accountability Board director Kevin Kennedy in contact during the brunt of the GAB’s political investigation into conservative targets. Kennedy described Lerner as a longtime “professional friend.”

    The Wall Street Journal opinion piece published Thursday and headlined “Wisconsin’s friend at the IRS” reveals that Lerner and Wisconsin Government Accountability Board’s Kennedy were in contact between 2011 and 2013 — when the GAB assisted partisan prosecutors in investigating scores of conservatives and in raiding several of their homes.

    H/T Adee

  24. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #22 El Gordo has the right idea. 😉

  25. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #24 Tedtam

    LOL

  26. Sarge Avatar

    Shannon says:
    JULY 10, 2015 AT 9:03 AM
    Bonecrusher
    Did you not read of his negative reaction to the sickle crucifix ?

    Yahbut something showed up in his email box that said the Pope smiled——-

  27. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #27: I was looking at the picture in the linked article that clearly shows him smiling and looking at the object.

    Jerk!

  28. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    Argentina and Greece have some commonality.

  29. CFree Avatar
    CFree

    Another happy B-day Shannon!

  30. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    When your host presents you a gift, chances are you will be smiling before you realize it is inappropriate. Good grief.

  31. Sarge Avatar

    Bonecrusher says:
    JULY 10, 2015 AT 9:50 AM
    #27: I was looking at the picture in the linked article that clearly shows him smiling and looking at the object.

    Jerk!

    Dude.

    You gotta read the words.

    La Paz, Bolivia, Jul 9, 2015 / 10:45 am (CNA/EWTN News).- When leftist Bolivian president Evo Morales on Thursday presented Pope Francis with a “communist crucifix” – a carving of Christ crucified on the hammer of a hammer and sickle – the Pope appeared to say, “This is not ok,” while shaking his head.

  32. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #31: How long do you think it would take you to realize that was inappropriate, half a second, maybe? Did they just happen to snap that pic in that half second?

  33. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Did they just happen to snap that pic in that half second?

    Yes, they did.

  34. Sarge Avatar

    Bonesy.

    Are we looking at the same picture?

    Here it is, straight from the linked article (which is the link in my #32).

    You gotta look at the pictures, too.

  35. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    There’s plenty of reasons to disagree with this Pope without going bat sht crazy about it.

  36. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Numerous reports have him reacting negatively.
    What more do you want?

  37. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #39: That is hilarious. Try and imagine a cat even attempting something like that. That is one smart dog and it likes to play.

  38. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Happy Birthday Shannon

  39. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Happy Birthday, Shannon!!!

  40. Katfish Avatar

    #39 – Geeeez that soooooooooooooooooo looks like my ole bud Midnite!! (lil guy rode E V E R Y W H E R E w/ me and rode with me on bulldozers and front end loaders)

  41. Katfish Avatar

    #41 – fireproof frosting eh?? ROFLMAO 🙂

  42. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Hillary Clinton’s push on gun control marks a shift in presidential politics.

    But in a sign that the political environment on guns has shifted in the wake of recent mass shootings — and of Clinton’s determination to stake out liberal ground in her primary race against insurgent Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) — Clinton is not only initiating a debate about gun control but also vowing to fight the National Rifle Association.

    “I’m going to speak out against the uncontrollable use of guns in our country because I believe we can do better,” Clinton said Tuesday in Iowa City.
    Clinton’s comments could stoke millions of politically active gun owners, and Wayne LaPierre, the NRA’s executive vice president, argued that the move was fraught with peril for her.

    “We’ve been down this road before with the Clintons,” ­La­Pierre said through a spokesman. “She needs to read her husband’s book.”

    In his memoir, “My Life,” former president Bill Clinton suggested that his vice president, Al Gore, lost the 2000 presidential election in part because of backlash in states such as Arkansas and Tennessee over the Clinton administration’s 1995 ban on assault weapons, which has since expired. Many Democratic lawmakers also lost their elections after gun-control votes.

    The Republican 2016 presidential candidates, in keeping with GOP orthodoxy, have spoken out loudly against gun control. Many gave speeches at the NRA’s spring convention and tout their high ratings from the group

  43. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    The pic in Bones’ #17 link does depict a faint smile on pope’s face. Perhaps a quizzical smile, before he realizes what he is looking at. Other pix e.g. #36 are definitely showing displeasure.

  44. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #41 Has the Bellville fire department been notified? Is Bellville big enough to have a fire department?

  45. Hamous Avatar

    When you’re a Democrat and you’ve lost Slate you’ve lost the argument:

    In the meantime, you shouldn’t need a political consultant to tell you why consumers paying hundreds of dollars—or even more than $1,000 a month—for health insurance they are required to buy and often can’t afford to use might well get angry. Once you name something the Affordable Care Act, people oddly expect the product on offer to be affordable. Who’d have thunk it?

    Of course, I’m sure their solution is complete government takeover of healthcare, which was most likely SCOTUSRobertsCare’s goal from the beginning.

  46. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Bellville Fire Department

    I guess they have about a dozen trucks. One main station and two rural ones. Department is at least a hundred years old. All volunteer and well run.

  47. Sarge Avatar

    Hillary Clinton’s push on gun control marks a shift in presidential politics.

    No it doesn’t.

    It means she can feel Bernie Sanders breathing on her knickers and Gun Control is one of the few issues she can get to the left of him on and doesn’t want the humiliation of losing other states after she loses Iowa and NH

  48. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Took me all day to remember Ken Stabler’s nickname.
    Must be getting old.

    Remembering “The Snake”

  49. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Dr Zhivago has assumed tundra temperature.

    Do you play the balalaika?

  50. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Modern Drunkard Magazine

    For Stabler and the rest of the team, the parties started on the first day of training camp. Among veterans, camp has a rote, eat-your-spinich quality, and Stabler, already uncomfortable with schedules and rules, felt it more acutely than most. But rather than letting it sour their moods, Stabler and his cronies decided that, since their presence was mandatory, they might as well kick out the jams. As Stabler put it: “The monotony of camp was so oppressive that without the diversions of whiskey and women, those of us who were wired for activity on no more than six hours sleep a night might have gone berserk.”

    Shortly after arriving in Oakland, Snake hooked up with four like-minded players, forming a hedonistic club he called the “Santa Rosa Five.” In addition to himself, there was halfback Pete Banaszak, receiver Fred Biletnikoff, defensive end Tony Cline and linebacker Dan Conners. They lived in a two-room suite at the El Rancho Motel in Santa Rosa and it quickly became party-central for Raiders in need of a good time. The Five bought three refurbished refrigerators and lined them up side by side in the suite’s main room. One was for snacks, the other two were exclusively for beer. Properly packed, they could hold 20 cases.

  51. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #52:

    Do you play the balalaika?

    you mean like this?

  52. Hamous Avatar

    When I first moved to Houston, during the height of the “Urban Cowboy” craze, Stabler had a drugstore cowboy club on 290 called Diamondback. I always heard it referred to as “The Snakepit”.

  53. Tedtam Avatar

    Hubby just asked me to go out for dinner tonight

    😯

  54. Tedtam Avatar

    More on doughnut licking – from Shapiro.

    In reality, Grande’s act was probably just a juvenile act of narcissistic nastiness from a juvenile, narcissistic, nasty person. But she knew enough to know that if she cloaked her hijinks in the holiness of a leftist cause, she’d draw support. And so she shall. No act is too low for those seeking to harm dastardly Americans who disagree with the politically correct cause of the day — and no heaven is too high for these saints so far as the left is concerned.

    Included is an admission from the Bully Dan Savage about his disgusting and sophomoric antics – licking doorknobs.

    These people are gross and so immature as to make me request they repeat their grade school years in an attempt to force maturation upon them.

  55. Hamous Avatar

    I was watching a story on CNN about the VA hospital boondoggle in Colorado and saw this banner:

    Excuse me, I’ve got some Brawndo for my garden and I need to irrigate. It’s what plants crave.

  56. Hamous Avatar

    The next story was about the pope in South America and his speech on “unbriddled” capitalism.

  57. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Is it just my addled brain, or does that banner make no sense ?

  58. gtotracker Avatar
    gtotracker

    I don’t know who this Grande gal is but I am tired of the constant coverage of it. Like the blow by blow of the SC flag coming down. All day. Maybe if they dropped the flag pole on Grande’s head bringing both stories to an end it might have been worth it.

  59. gtotracker Avatar
    gtotracker

    Oh, and Happy Birthday to the newest geezer.

  60. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Thank you.

    Takes an old goat to know one.

  61. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Seen on local church sign.

    A Closed Mouth Gathers No Feet

  62. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    #54 bone
    They look like a hockey team.

  63. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Brawndo has electrolytes.

  64. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Powerthirst harnesses the power of 400 babies.

    http://youtu.be/qRuNxHqwazs

  65. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I spent a few moments trying to find out what Brawndo is.

    Not much luck.

    Ignorance is bliss.

  66. Hamous Avatar

    I spent a few moments trying to find out what Brawndo is.

    It comes from the post-apocalyptic comedy called Idiocracy and, increasingly, a mirror held up to modern society.

  67. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    The balalaika has very much the same tone as an ukelele when both are played by experts.

  68. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    But, hey, at least I know who Ariana Grande is.

  69. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    And I found out today that William Barrett Travis was a ginger.

  70. phil Avatar
    phil

    Cheeshovah Witness mice.

    Wonder if the mouse in the hole got the knock early Saturday AM too?

    Dang sleep wreckers.

  71. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    John McClain telling Kenny Stabler stories on AM610 this afternoon, freaking hilarious. What awesome times. Everyone’s hammering him to write a book entitled “Stories I Can’t Tell on the Air”.

    Think his column today on the Chron’s dead tree version has a lot of them as well.

  72. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Allofasudden pouring down rain here.

  73. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Even the Cheesehovahs can’t find Howard’s RV & Trailer Park Extravaganza.

  74. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #49 Shannon

    All volunteer and well run.

    Do they do a BFD calendar every year to raise funds?

  75. Sarge Avatar

    So—

    Arianna Grande isn’t that stuff I bought at the hipster coffee place?

  76. gtotracker Avatar
    gtotracker

    Saw this Ariana live at Warehouse Live. Freaking wow.

  77. phil Avatar
    phil

    Happy B-day Shannon and before dementia sets in always remember this.

  78. gtotracker Avatar
    gtotracker

    How things come back around. For Hamous.

  79. gtotracker Avatar
    gtotracker

    Hamous, this used be hard to find.

  80. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    No calendar. But a helluva BBQ, auction, and dance. They have been known to sell beer there.

  81. Hamous Avatar

    #83, 84 – Just recently, I saw a Michael Been tribute concert (probably on Palladia) with the original Call members and his son singing.

    I forgot Garth Hudson played keyboards on the early stuff, but you can recognize his sound immediately in The Walls Came Down.

  82. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #51

    Rememberimg “The Snake”

    In that highlite reel they show the “Holy Roller” play causing the no forward fumble rule.

  83. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Much cooler than deflating footballs.

  84. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    The real estate market is just unbelievable. Sweetie just made an offer that was just listed today, they got four offers already and are asking for “highest and best” by Monday. This is happening constantly now, she has clients making offers sight unseen because they get snapped up so fast. Offers so high the appraisals aren’t being approved (another story).

  85. Hamous Avatar

    Happy Birthday, Shannon.

  86. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Tim — Do these desperate home buyers speak with foreign accents, like the Bronx or Boston? A new wave of yankee invasion into Texas…

  87. Hamous Avatar

    And the Number One song on the day Shannon was born:

  88. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    93 Hamous

    Truth be told.

  89. Hamous Avatar

    Bill Haley would have turned 90 last Monday.

  90. Katfish Avatar

    #95 Hammy you inspired me to check on mine (#1 on my birthday that is)

    not a bad slow swing tune!

    The McGuire Sisters – Sincerely

  91. Katfish Avatar

    #93 – AaaaMEN Hammy!

  92. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    93
    🙂

  93. Tedtam Avatar

    The solar system gif is really, really cool. I’m so used to seeing the static version, I never thought of the forward movement.

  94. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Tim — Do these desperate home buyers speak with foreign accents, like the Bronx or Boston? A new wave of yankee invasion into Texas…

    All of her current clients are local except one couple from Tennessee that moved here a couple months ago. This activity is across the board – rentals, buyers from the one hundreds to mid threes. Just her sample, she doesn’t have a feel for other buyers but around her office it seems the same.

  95. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    102
    So you know that to be forward?
    Not sideways? Backwards?

  96. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I see Hammy’s test, but will mine work?

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