Audio; Christmas Day: Sermon: St. Paul's Church: Fr. Kevin Dooley: 12/25/2009
Friday, December 25, 2009
Thursday, December 24, 2009
"Why We Remember"----the Controversy: Reflection
Recently my spouse posted some pictures of our earlier years and the kids on a website and my kids were somewhat shocked by it---one daughter said to me: "Dad, I forget that you were young once." Relax. I just smiled and replied. "Yes.....I had forgotten too."
Our family has just been through a whirlwind of visiting and remembering and celebrating---and going over pictures and stuff. And in the discussion of these memories, I always wonder----do we seniors go over the oldies but goodies to be role models to the youngins????-----the more I think of this role modeling stuff the less I think so---I go over the pictures so that I CAN REMEMBER the BATTLES and that YES, I was YOUNG ONCE".
Sometimes when you get through the battles of life, one can forget what it was all about---and the pictures bring it all back.
Our family has just been through a whirlwind of visiting and remembering and celebrating---and going over pictures and stuff. And in the discussion of these memories, I always wonder----do we seniors go over the oldies but goodies to be role models to the youngins????-----the more I think of this role modeling stuff the less I think so---I go over the pictures so that I CAN REMEMBER the BATTLES and that YES, I was YOUNG ONCE".
Sometimes when you get through the battles of life, one can forget what it was all about---and the pictures bring it all back.
When things don't Add up: When the Facts don't Matter: Reflection
Recently while watching a football game, I noticed that the audio track from a certain popular channel just did not match the video---boy did that ruin the game for me. Nothing like being a little delayed to rattle the enjoyment. When things just do not match up...there is a real sense of things being wrong somehow....things need to mesh to make sense in our lives.
Recently, in the political arena, something similar has occured.
There was a theft from a local school district that was discovered in July. Revealed to the public in November. Always need a little delay to model Edward Kennedy and Tiger Woods I presume. The theft was not revealed to local law enforcement it seems, no need to follow proper procedure, but sent directly to the DA, where it seems that the person confessed to $100,000 of theft, while in the alternative pleading "not guilty." We never really plead these days, but plead in the multiple alternative. Right at that point of the story, I hear the sound track going off the road.
But relax...it gets better. The person involved supposedly had a gambling addiction and a $200,000 gambling debt---but not one person, even the DA it seems, worried in the least of where the other $100,000 was. The school that had been stolen from reviewed two years of accounting and then declined to go further in history. They presumably felt so bad about the incident that they did not want to really know the facts...and well,....maybe the DA feels so bad that he does not want to know either.
And that is where we are today---in a place where the FACTS and the LAW do not matter....just the POLITICS and how we FEEL seems to be important.
As I see it there are two phases---determination of facts---as in the old Dragnet movie, the "facts and nothing but the facts" and then in a separate judicial section, the clemency or sentencing. The facts come before the sentencing...at least that is the way the texts teach it.
To do otherwise is to run the car off the tracks, or run the TV with the audio track off kilter---we have run amuck. That is how I see it.
Recently, in the political arena, something similar has occured.
There was a theft from a local school district that was discovered in July. Revealed to the public in November. Always need a little delay to model Edward Kennedy and Tiger Woods I presume. The theft was not revealed to local law enforcement it seems, no need to follow proper procedure, but sent directly to the DA, where it seems that the person confessed to $100,000 of theft, while in the alternative pleading "not guilty." We never really plead these days, but plead in the multiple alternative. Right at that point of the story, I hear the sound track going off the road.
But relax...it gets better. The person involved supposedly had a gambling addiction and a $200,000 gambling debt---but not one person, even the DA it seems, worried in the least of where the other $100,000 was. The school that had been stolen from reviewed two years of accounting and then declined to go further in history. They presumably felt so bad about the incident that they did not want to really know the facts...and well,....maybe the DA feels so bad that he does not want to know either.
And that is where we are today---in a place where the FACTS and the LAW do not matter....just the POLITICS and how we FEEL seems to be important.
As I see it there are two phases---determination of facts---as in the old Dragnet movie, the "facts and nothing but the facts" and then in a separate judicial section, the clemency or sentencing. The facts come before the sentencing...at least that is the way the texts teach it.
To do otherwise is to run the car off the tracks, or run the TV with the audio track off kilter---we have run amuck. That is how I see it.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Video; Observer salutes Alyce on 85th Birthday
Video: Short cameo look at the birthday party of Alyce on her 85th birthday---celebrated recently at the Lafayette Country Club in Minneapolis...Such a joy to celebrate during the Christmas season.
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Video: "This Little Bride and Groom"--ee commings
Video: 40th Wedding Anniversary of Sue and Ed---Minneapolis, Mn. ; Sunday December 20, 2009. Reading and comments by Richard Woulfe
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Audio: Sermon of the Week; 12/6/2009
Audio; Sermon of the Week: Fr. Kevin Dooley: St. Paul's Church: Evansville, Wi----"Straighten the Road"
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