Good morning, all! My morning happiness today is me feeling good about taking care of my wife. She’s super sick for her first day of med school. I blame Jesus. Here I am up late last night making overnight apple chunk oatmeal so she’d have something in the morning she could swallow with her super sore throat: It actually turned out ok. 🙂 I’m getting better at this whole cooking thing. Thankfully, in the meantime, I have a wife who... Read more
Bernie Sanders on Sunday went on CNN to respond to the 20,000 leaked DNC emails, some of which suggested the DNC planned to attack him for supposedly being an atheist to sway some Christian voters in southern states during the primary. In an email sent in early May of 2016, DNC Chief Financial Officer Brad Marshall said that it might “make several points difference to my [Southern Baptist peeps]” in West Virginia and Kentucky if they could “get someone to ask”... Read more
A leaked email among some of the Democratic Party’s higher-ups show them considering a plan to expose Sen. Bernie Sanders as an atheist, saying it may “make several points difference” to Christian voters in vital southern states during the 2016 Democratic Presidential Primary. In its latest barrage of leaked material surrounding the former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, WikiLeaks released nearly 20,000 emails from the DNC. Some of those emails include an exchange between the DNC’s Chief Financial Officer Brad Marshall and Chief... Read more
Today is the wife’s white coat ceremony. She gets that fancy white coat, we get to sit in a swampy auditorium for a few hours, then we all get to pile in front of the TV and be happy. The mother-in-law just arrived so I get to go play host. I’m so proud of my wife. That’s my happiness for today. 🙂 Read more
Well this is cool: The NBA has pulled the 2017 All-Star Game from Charlotte after North Carolina lawmakers failed to repeal or repair an anti-LGBT law passed in spring, according totop NBA reporter Adrian Wojnarowski at Yahoo Sports. The All-Star Weekend events, scheduled to take place February 17-19, will likely be moved to New Orleans, Wojnarowski reports. Attention turned to the NBA and the All-Star Game shortly after North Carolina quickly passed HB2 in March. The law removes anti-discrimination protections... Read more
Well, this was interesting: Now to be clear, Cruz’s speech still had your standard right wing fare. I mean, at 13:30 Cruz says, “Hillary Clinton believes that the government should dictate every choice in your life: education, healthcare, marriage, speech, all dictated out of Washington.” Of course, the crowd at the RNC (which looks like every white Jerry Springer guest in history holding a reunion) ate it up without thinking to themselves, “Huh, isn’t it the GOP trying to tell... Read more
No morning happiness today because I have to head down the road to do some paperwork, then I’m staying overnight to teach voice lessons tomorrow. Ok, so if you follow my twitter you’re aware that I thought the RNC yesterday was a clown show. I mean, there was the young guy they trotted out to say that the GOP was the party of youth, then you looked at the audience listening to him. This dude just said “We are the... Read more
I’m watching the RNC be up in arms about the anti-Trump delegates calling for a roll call vote. In a moment I’ll have to start getting ready for dinner tonight. The wife is dining tonight with her med school house (kinda like Hogwarts, to my understanding) and I’m her plus one. So here’s what else happened today: In Pennsacola, FL on Thursday a member of the Satanic Temple gave the opening prayer for the city council. A bunch of people... Read more
Ok, let’s talk about Donald Trump and Mike Pence. First, Mike Pence. What does his nomination mean? Well, polls indicate that Trump is predictably struggling with women voters and racial minorities. His VP pick was a chance for him to forge an inroad with those demographics. Instead, we got Mike Pence. Pence gives Trump zero help with young voters, women, and racial minorities. If anything, Pence is an attempt motivate the #NeverTrump crowd to come to his side. He wants... Read more
Today Pew published a study showing that compared to 15 years ago far fewer Americans think churches contribute to solving social problems: Americans appear to be growing more skeptical of how much of a difference churches and other houses of worship make in tackling social concerns. A majority of U.S. adults still say religious institutions contribute either “a great deal” (19%) or “some” (38%) to solving important social problems. But the combined figure of 58% has fallen significantly in recent... Read more
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