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Review: "Pastors in the Classics"
Pastors in the Classics: Timeless Lessons on Life and Ministry from World Literature
Leland Ryken, Philip Ryken & Todd Wilson
Baker Books, 2012, 192pp., paperback, $16.99
This is an odd book. It is not a bad book, but it is hard to categorise. Divided into two parts, the first consists of twelve fairly detailed considerations of literary representations of pastoral ministry, drawn from a reasonably wide sweep. The second contains 58 précis of other such representations. It is difficult to gauge for whom and for what this book exists: from the blurb and endorsements one is clearly meant to come to the book as a pastor and here find prompts to profound self-awareness together with penetrating insights into the pastoral calling. Frankly, this was not my experience. For Christians (not least pastors) with a literary bent it might provide an interesting reading list or a stimulus for study and discussion. However, as a means of getting to grips with the challenges, demands and struggles of pastoral ministry, I think that there are far better lessons to be drawn from life than art: this is one area where reality trumps realism. I am not suggesting that this is a worthless book, but I think it will sit more readily in the literary theory than the pastoral theology section of the library.
The seraphic Pearce to the seminarian
Always good to see Samuel Pearce getting a nod. Here is a summary of his counsels to a man attending a ministerial academy:
1. Cultivate Personal Spiritual Disciplines
2. Submit to Your Professors
3. Practice Self-Control
4. Be Wise with Your Time
5. Pursue Excellence
6. Stay Focused
I know it sounds obvious, and it might apply to the ongoing life of ministry in Christ's church, but still worth worth reading.
The unbearable lightness of preaching
The therapeutic concerns of the culture too often set the agenda for evangelical preaching. Issues of the self predominate, and the congregation expects to hear simple answers to complex problems. Furthermore, postmodernism claims intellectual primacy in the culture, and even if they do not surrender entirely to doctrinal relativism, the average congregant expects to make his or her own final decisions about all important issues of life, from worldview to lifestyle.
Authentic Christian preaching carries a note of authority and a demand for decisions not found elsewhere in society. The solid truth of Christianity stands in stark contrast to the flimsy pretensions of postmodernity. Unfortunately, the appetite for serious preaching has virtually disappeared among many Christians who are content to have their fascinations with themselves encouraged from the pulpit.
Al Mohler delivers the second in a series of broadsides at the modern pulpit. Good stuff!
The preacher's vocal hygiene
The voice is the preacher's primary tool, and we need to keep it in good condition. Reminded of and freshly and uncomfortably impressed with some of the elements of vocal hygiene, and being very willing to help other preachers keep their voices healthy, and equally to spare anyone the experience of a doctor inserting what looks and feels like a car aerial into your nasal cavities, or worse, herewith some counsels (garnered over many years) on vocal hygiene tailored to the preacher, arranged topically, some or all of which may be helpful to some. A lot of it is sanctified common-sense, and I should imagine that most preachers do most of it almost naturally.
Read the counsels at Reformation21.
Your baby's ugly
. . . if someone has a burning calling, a teachable spirit, a passionate heart, and a reckless abandon to pay the price to preach well, then not even the limitation of their own background, personality, or natural talents will keep them from preaching the Word of God with power.
A very insightful article on learning to preach better here.
Positive leadership
David Murray is working through a series on the qualities of positive leadership. Links to previous posts are at the foot of this existing post.
The distracted Samuel Miller
As a professor at Princeton, Miller would devote himself to preaching and building up the pastoral office through his teaching and publications. He is often remembered for these publications on pastoral issues, including his Letters on Clerical Manners (1827) and his famous An Essay on the Warrant, Nature, and Duties of the Office of the Ruling Elder in the Presbyterian Church (1831). It is often overlooked, however, that he had struggled to maintain his pastoral focus and unswerving devotion to his pastoral duties while a pastor in New York. His eventual triumph over pastoral distractions would win him universal esteem of his colleagues, and by the time he reached his maturity as a professor, the younger James W. Alexander, would be able to look on him with admiration and say, "I think [Samuel Miller] one of the most conscientious and pious men I ever knew."
You can read about the struggle that Samuel Miller had here. It is a painful history, all the more so because he only learned as a professor what he needed to know as a pastor.
Mistress Ministry
Ministry idolatry is becoming increasingly widespread, reaching epidemic proportions. It is showcased at network and denominational gatherings, where the focus and conversation is often not about Jesus, but about us and what we are accomplishing and achieving. Leaders discuss the latest poster children for ministry success and their methods so we can all emulate them, buy their books, and attend their "how we did it" seminars and conferences.
Plain Puritan preaching
Joel Beeke offers some insights on plain preaching, Puritan style, which addressed the mind with clarity, confronted the conscience pointedly, and wooed the heart passionately. Not a bad model . . .
Apostolic preaching
Kevin DeYoung passes on five features of preaching in the book of the Acts which he suggests should be essentially normative for all preaching:
- God-centered.
- Audience-conscious.
- Christ-focused.
- Response-oriented.
- Boldness.
Interesting and useful.
Good news for bad (and young) preachers
Russell Moore reminds us that pretty much every preacher is on a perpetual learning curve, and that our first attempts are almost invariably (though for various reasons) bad, that this is to be expected, and that it is part of what will, hopefully, make us sufficient. It is of particular encouragement to those starting out in the work, and may be read here.
An old minister's complaints
An old minister's complaints via Heavenly Worldliness:
I. I complain that many of my people are not so prayerful or so earnest, or so spiritual as Christians ought to be. They seem to pray very little, for their minister, for their fellow-worshippers, or for the revival of the work of God in the midst of them.
II. I complain that so few attend the prayer-meetings. Not a sixth part of the regular worshippers come to it, as if it were no business of theirs, as if they had something far more important to do. They go to public meetings, scientific lectures, parties of pleasure, but neglect the prayer-meeting.
III. I complain that some, of whom better things might have been expected, are only half-day hearers. What they do on the other half of the Sabbath I do not know; but their seat in Church is empty each afternoon.
IV. I complain that some are not punctual to the hour, but come in late, missing the first Psalm and the first prayer.
V. I complain that some are, during service, not so reverent in prayer or praise or hearing as worshippers of God should be.
VI. I complain that some do not observe the Sabbath as it ought to be observed, and as it once was observed in Scotland. Their conversation, their employments are inconsistent with the holiness of that day.
VII. I complain that our workers are so few, that of a large congregation only a handful should devote themselves to the active service of the Master.
VIII. I complain that our Office-bearers and teachers are not so earnest and self-denying and prayerful as they ought to be; taking their work too easily, not as a matter of life and death for souls.
IX. I complain that our liberality is poor and stinted; our givings upon a low and narrow scale; God getting the least, self and the world getting the most of what we have.
I think many ministers would suggest that not a great deal has changed.
As he goes
Well-known blogger, recently-appointed pastor, and – by his own admission – novitiate preacher Tim Challies offers some perceptive thoughts on what he is learning along the way.
The preacher a window
George Herbert offers an image:
Lord, how can man preach thy eternall word?
He is a brittle crazie glasse:
Yet in thy temple thou dost him afford
This glorious and transcendent place,
To be a window, through thy grace.
But when thou dost anneal in glasse thy storie,
Making thy life to shine within
The holy Preachers, then the light and glorie
More rev'rend grows, and more doth win;
Which else shows watrish, bleak, and thin.
Doctrine and life, colours and light, in one
When they combine and mingle, bring
A strong regard and aw: but speech alone
Doth vanish like a flaring thing,
And in the eare, not conscience ring.
Evangelistic preaching
David Murray has been looking at the issue of evangelistic preaching, in the following sequence:
- What is evangelistic preaching?
- Four kinds of evangelistic sermon.
- Why is evangelistic preaching so rare?
- Four characteristics of evangelistic preaching.
- Four (more) characteristics of evangelistic preaching.
It is a discussion both helpful and necessary. Head over and join in.
Spurgeon's opening shot
From the first page of Lectures to my Students:
Every workman knows the necessity of keeping his tools in a good state of repair, for 'if the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength.' If the workman lose the edge from his adze, he knows that there will be a greater draught upon his energies, or his work will be badly done. Michael Angelo, the elect of the fine arts, understood so well the importance of his tools, that he always made his own brushes with his own hands, and in this he gives us and illustration of the God of grace, who with special care fashions for himself all true ministers. It is true that the Lord, like Quintin Matsys in the story of the Antwerp well-cover, can work with the faultiest kind of instrumentality, as he does when he occasionally makes very foolish preaching to be useful in conversion; and he can even work without agents, as he does when he saves men without a preacher at all, applying the word directly by his Holy Spirit; but we cannot regard God's absolutely sovereign acts as a rule for our action. He may, in his own absoluteness, do as pleases him best, but we must act as his plainer dispensations instruct us; and one of the facts which is clear enough is this, that the Lord usually adapts means to ends, from which the plain lesson is, that we shall be likely to accomplish most when we are in the best spiritual condition; or in other words, we shall usually do our Lord's work best when our gifts and graces are in good order, and we shall do worst when they are most out of trim.
The fight to read
I read last night of Samuel Pearce's battle to make time for reading and study in his ministry. Here, Spurgeon and Lloyd-Jones (via Piper) make the case:
Brethren, what is true of ministers is true of all our people. You need to read. Renounce as much as you will all light literature, but study as much as possible sound theological works, especially the Puritanic writers and expositions of the Bible.
A pastor's wife and children
Brian Croft with some helpful insights on a pastor's wife's battle against loneliness and pastor's children's battle against resentment. Brian is hard at work on a book on the pastor's family, and I hope that this solid, unspectacular, commonsense, thoroughly sensible approach is indicative of how he is approaching it. Brian's determination not to do fireworks for their own sake means that you don't get dazzled, but see clearly.
Pastoral priorities
Many pressures and demands pull on the pastor's time. A full-time capacity does not allow enough time to address them all, though I wish it did. Be wise and diligent with whatever time you are given, and delegate to other capable servants in the church so you are able to focus on that which God calls us to whether bi-vocational or full-time.
Brian Croft offers some counsel on how a full-time pastor should prioritize his time. Easier said than done, and rarely done well without the conscious and deliberate involvement and support of the whole church. ("Necessary administration" is a category that can swallow days of a week.)
Choosing your battles
Brian Croft is part of a denomination that has undergone significant changes, often at congregational level, over recent years. He offers some thoughts on how a pastor might choose his battles:
Pastors who walk into existing churches are quickly burdened by needed changes to improve the church. Where the challenge is for most of us is when and how those changes need to be brought. If you are wondering how to choose those battles wisely, first receive this most excellent counsel I received as I entered my first Senior Pastor position at a church clearly needing change and revitalization, "Preach the Word, sacrifically love those people, and do not change anything for a while."
Three particular counsels follow.
Just ask, don't tell
An anathema pronounced against the overuse and abuse of rhetorical questions and the interrogative:
I suspect that those of you who hear a fair amount of preaching have experienced this, haven't you? Somewhere along the line the preacher has been informed that a rhetorical question is a good way to engage his congregation, hasn't he? And so what does he do? Well, he uses them almost relentlessly, doesn't he? Doesn't he make sentences that don't need to be questions into questions? If in doubt – and perhaps this is the most distressing approach – he even throws in some form of interrogation at the end of most sentences, doesn't he?
The point, of course, is the necessity of a proclamational ministry, not one that is consistently asking for affirmation. Read it all at Reformation21.
The preacher's anticipation
St Paul expected his hearers to be moved. He so believed in his preaching that he knew that it was "the power of God unto salvation" [Rom. 1:16]. This expectation is a very real part of the presentation of the Gospel. It is a form of faith. A mere preaching which is not accompanied by the expectation of faith, is not a true preaching of the Gospel, because faith is a part of the Gospel. Simply to scatter the seed, with a sort of vague hope that some of it may come up somewhere, is not preaching the gospel. It is indeed a misrepresentation of the gospel. To preach the Gospel requires that the preacher should believe that he is sent to those whom he is addressing at the moment, because God has among them those whom He is at the moment calling: it requires that the speaker should expect a response.
Roland Allen, Missionary Methods—St. Paul's or Ours? (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1962), 74.
HT: Justin Taylor.
Pastoral theology book recommendations
Kevin DeYoung is proving himself a solid guide in many things. He writes:
Recently, we tweaked our pastoral internship program for this year to focus more on pastoral theology than trying to cover the whole gamut of a seminary education (church history, systematics, biblical theology, exegesis, etc.). To that end, we choose to highlight twelve categories of thought and practice that seem especially important to pastoral ministry. I know not every category below is technically "pastoral theology," and obviously this isn't anything like an exhaustive list. But these are some of the books I've found most helpful in pastoral ministry.
You can see his list here. You can see some of my reviews of pastoral theology here, and will see that I need to get to some of Kevin's recommendations.


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It should be fun.
Already working up here in York, although a little sketchy down my street!
i saw that google car with all the cameras come down my street late last year (curtains closed!)
Hmm... I wonder if it'll make its way into Minehead. I doubt it.
Working for our school - M27 0bh - Google Maps
Well on the Main East Lancs Road anyway!
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Parts of my town have been up for some weeks. Some weird stuff in some of the images. No wait, sorry, I've been drinking.
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The noise and commotion involved in Fourth of July celebrations can frighten pets and county Animal Services officials offered a few tips to keep pets safe today.
A first-of-its-kind ban on the sale of foie gras that went into effect in California this week is being challenged in court.
For the first time, a citrus tree in Southern California was found to be infected with a disease that could wipe out citrus plants across the state.
The guided-missile destroyer USS Sterett is scheduled to return to Naval Base San Diego Thursday following a deployment to the Middle East and western Pacific, Navy officials announced today.
Law enforcement officers in San Diego County will be on the lookout this Fourth of July for drunken drivers and illegal fireworks, sheriff's officials said.
California's fire season is lining up to be a tough one this year. The state's fire fighting agency, Cal Fire, has already fought 1,000 more wildfires this year, compared to last year.
Local physicists from UCSD were involved in the discovery of a new subatomic particle called the Higgs Boson, or "the God particle," the finding of which was just announced in Geneva, Switzerland.
Grammy-winning artist Roberta Flack has a new album out, and is playing two shows with the San Diego Symphony this weekend.
Grilling is an American pastime - on the 4th of July and all summer long. We'll get grilling tips from Sam the Cooking Guy, author of the cookbook "Just Grill This."
Camp Pendleton is planning a 21-gun salute to celebrate the Fourth of July, and warning folks who live within a 50-mile radius of the base there's a chance they'll hear it.
The announcement by physicists at the world's biggest atom smasher is a watershed moment in our understanding of the universe.
So I got to see the power of the Internet and social media when my friend decided to do live Tweeting and ended up making "Robo Vampire" a trending topic on Twitter.
San Diego's lifeguards are wading into the debate over the seals at the Children's Pool in La Jolla. They think they have a rock solid solution.
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Oct 23 2012, 6:15am CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr
Apple is going to stream today's iPad mini event live. This has just been discovered by TUAW on the Apple TV. There is a new channel called Apple Events. A message in the Apple Event channel on the Apple TV says that users should tune in at 10am PDT to view the event live. This is awesome. We are complaining about the lack of live video the last two years. The last time Apple streamed an event live was in 2010. Apple has not officially announced the live streaming of the Apple event. Maybe the still do that in the next hours.
Either way. I hope you have an Apple TV to view the event. I would appreciate if Apple makes also a video stream available on the web.
Read the latest highlights about the Apple iPad mini event.
Apple is not only streaming the iPad mini event from the Apple TV, but also online on the Apple.com site. It has been 2 years since Apple has provided a live video stream from a media event. More Details.
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Anxious to shun society and get out from underneath the wings of his domineering parents, recent college graduate Christopher (Emile Hirsch) donates his savings to charity, packs his Datsun with gear and drives west. His plan: Take a cross-country trek, then head north to Alaska and live off the land. He works a series of odd jobs and makes numerous friends around the country before hiking into the Alaskan bush with little more than a bag of rice and a bunch of books. He finds an abandoned bus with a stove and sets up what he thinks will be a temporary camp.
Christopher's adventures aren't depicted chronologically. We see him camping in Alaska, hunting game and collecting seeds and roots for food. Then the film shows a series of flashbacks from Alaska to episodes during his trek across the United States and into Mexico. Penn does a nice job of contrasting Christopher's life in the wilderness with his tramp status in society. Out in the wild, Christopher is elated, whether he's paddling a kayak into Mexico or getting swept away by flash floods in his Datsun. Upon his return to big cities, he's miserably dwarfed by buildings and relegated to odd jobs and shelters.
Most moving of Christopher's stops along the way is his visit with an elderly man named Ron Franz, portrayed by the great Hal Holbrook. Ron lives alone near the Salton Sea (near Palm Springs, Calif.) and admires much in Christopher's tenacity and sense of adventure. Holbrook takes his portion of the picture and just runs with it, delivering one of the finest performances of his long career.
William Hurt and Marcia Gay Harden are effective as Christopher's confused and slightly miffed parents, who try to buy their son a car as a graduation present and are rejected. Vince Vaughn brings a comedic glint to the role of Wayne Westerberg, a wheat farmer who makes illegal cable boxes on the side. The always-great Catherine Keener shines as Jan, a hippie who seems to look upon Christopher as a son after giving him a ride in her RV.
When mentioning supporting work, one cannot ignore the contribution of Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder and his music. His soundtrack is like a character in the film, at once mournful and joyous. This is a rare soundtrack, one that accentuates and amplifies the film with every note. Penn scored a real coup when he got Vedder.
The movie isn't just a triumph for Penn, but for Hirsch. He has starred in a string of mediocre movies, and his roles have been rather showy of late. Working with Penn, Hirsch strips down and reveals that he is an actor with incredible charms and talent.
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When Israel invaded Lebanon in the 1980s, I recall an editorial cartoon where an Israeli officer was asking a tank officer…
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The marines had stopped the Israeli forces from crossing lines set by the UN. A few weeks later, the barracks blew up and over 200 Americans died and we left. Lebanon suffered.
Israel is a great nation. Sometimes their government sucks. Sounds like…hmmm….let me think.
I still wonder…hypothetically, if "President-Elect Romney" (shudder) had nominated Hagel to be the Secretary of Defense, would McCain, and Schumer, and everyone else be kicking up this much sand about him??
OR, how much of the fuss is SIMPLY because he's Obama's choice?
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Outside the one token Socialist senator, three parties control congress: Democrats, Republicans, and the veto power, Likud.
IMO Schumer is no longer the driver for Israel leaders.
By supporting Hagel, Schumer is now working to put a proven unfriendly politician to Israel in charge of gutting the US military in the DOD, and a waning support for the Jewish nation that Truman instantly supported in 1948, in the tradition of our Founding Fathers who were always supportive of Jewish people. One Jewish banker saved the 1776 Revolution by providing funds to Washington's Army.
I want a Pro-Israel and Pro-USA person heading DOD. -
And I would like to live on ice cream and beer.
But that would be an unbelievably stupid choice. -
Schumer works hard for his constituency.
All of his constituencies, actually.
Is he "Pro Israel" well he's Jewish and he represents a LARGE jewish constituency, so, given how far he could have gone, I'll have to say "only kinda"
Not that Israel has anything to worry about, the USA isn't going anywhere. There are too many Christian Fundies that want us to protect Israel, They don't care much what happens to the Jews there, so long it doesn't get over run by Arabs.
Chuck does a good job for us in NY.
And giving Hagel a thumb up is just another example of him doing so. (Believe me there are many in his constituency that would disagree with him, but Schumer put pragmatism ahead of politics, and for that, we're happy!) -
the U.S. is a strong supporter of Israel – NOT a colony of Israel. The Israel Truman supported was not Netanyahu's Israel. There are many, many Israelis who oppose Bennie's policies. And with regard to Chaim Solomon, Jewish financiers also helped Kaiser Bill in Germany.
I want a combat vet heading the DOD. I prefer one in the White House, but Obama's doing just fine.
"I want a Pro-Israel and Pro-USA person heading DOD."
I want someone in charge who makes decisions based on logic and reasoning, not someone who's blindly pro or anti anything. -
I find it interesting that you put pro-Israel before pro-USA. Should the AMERICAN Secretary of Defense take an oath to Israel before entering office?
Hagel simply stated the truth. If Israel wants to PROVE they have a right to exist, they were after all created as a modern nation BY THE UN!, then the need to stop attacking and invading their neighbors, and WE need to STOP regarding Netanyahu as governor of our 51 state. It IS significant that close to a majority of ISRAELIS, do NOT support Netanyahu, the advancing "settlements" and denial of the rule of international law.
Our founding fathers were not always supportive of the Jewish people. Yes, many did well here, but American tradition is definitely mixed on it. However, being supportive of a religious group and always supporting the policies of a nation are not related. Not even Jewish friends of mine support many of Israel's abusive policies. Why should they? We don't support all of our country's policies. But Israel is in the wrong in its treatment of the Palestinians, and I suspect the prophets of old would call Israel's leadership to task.
I do find it interesting that a nation created by the UN gets such love from the very people who despise the UN so very much.
Hopefully Hagel will be a voice of reason in the DoD. We should pull away from the neo-con world domination matriz and toward a more balanced view of the worlld. We have succeeded in burning too many bridges. Obama's unreported performance in Phnom Pen in November was horrible.
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I think a great idea would be similar to what designbyhumans do, after you order a t-shirt you're asked if you'd like to earn some DBH$, all you do is take a picture of yourself and upload it, if the picture is good enough quality they give you $2DBH, so after you purchase 15 or so T-shirts and upload pictures of them each you have enough DBH$ for another purchase. If you refer a friend you also get 1DBH$ for each item they buy, this would need to be tweaked because you have cheaper purchases but it could work the same.
I think this would be the best way: Store credit for refering users that make purchases and store credit for uploading a picture of yourself with the product, I'm sometimes left thinking "I wonder what this looks like..." when in the NG store, while having the pictures wouldn't instantly make me buy it they'd be a great "nudge" towards it and I'm sure other people would also be pushed towards buying more if they can see what they actually look like.
At 7/2/09 04:22 AM, Gagsy wrote: sard is without a doubt the best looking mod. Ok, that doesn't take a lot of beating, but he's still hot.
Mine & the-swain > sardonic.
At 7/2/09 04:32 AM, citricsquid wrote:At 7/2/09 04:22 AM, Gagsy wrote: sard is without a doubt the best looking mod. Ok, that doesn't take a lot of beating, but he's still hot.Mike & the-swain > sardonic.
I meant Mike.
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Sig by Cagedsilhouette :3, Want to kill some time?
At 7/1/09 12:30 PM, DannyIsOnFire wrote: Will vote on the monthly's in a minute. Just filled out the survey, my main point - Put a damn Newgrounds lighter in the store. I want to smoke in style!
That's actually a great idea. An NG Zippo. All I could come up with were... bobbleheads. And lots of em.
you should come to supanova in Australia next year
At 7/1/09 01:13 PM, doberman7 wrote: Liljim looks like he got older.
Liljim looks like Seth Green.
Yeah, I'm not such a big fan of random "original" banners or sentences...
At 7/1/09 12:25 PM, poxpower wrote: holy shit
Holy crap
That is one epic pic
Looks like an awesome time. I'll have to schedule some time off next time there's some form of gathering and head out with Afro-Ninja next time.
just filled it in THE STORE NEEDS A HANK PLUSHIE!!
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Glad to see you are working on the chat and not some trivial bullshit nobody cares about.
Whoa! Tom got rid of teh beard, I see!
I laugh at your sigs!
These are awesome pics :)) I loved them all. I'm wishing the Comic Con San Diego will be that much fun!
I think we should get rewards for taking these surveys.
I took the survey, I'm still waiting on my agnry faic mousepad, by the way.
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At 7/2/09 03:28 PM, PrawDuhJee wrote: I think we should get rewards for taking these surveys.
Our feedback helps Newgrounds improve. That's a reward.
But some candy would be nice too.
Holy shit James needs to get some weight D:
I wish I could've make it to Philly, looks like Jonas would've needed someone to cheer him up :D
Filled the survey, yar yar.
Luis tell me you gave Tom the shirt.
I really hope that with this survey will eventually come the ability to purchase items on the NG store using paypal. I've wanted to purchase items from there for a while now, and it sucks not being able to because I don't have the proper payment method.
Took the survey, hope it helps.
I'm definitely looking at grabbing a t-shirt from the store sometime soon-ish. And nice meet-up pics.


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No one could survive the chaos we've just witnessed here.
But as the dust begins to settle over the ruins of Casanova's mansion...
...the question remains:
Who were these brave heroes that gave their lives to save our city tonight?
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Earlier today, a gunman walked into a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, where people were watching the midnight showing of the new Batman movie. He fired gas canisters into the crowd, and then opened fire. At least 12 people are dead and 59 people are injured. My heart and prayers go out to all of them.
On the day Gabby Giffords was shot, I was picking up my son Henry from a lesson when I got the text message saying there had been a shooting. I'd campaigned with Gabby in 2006. Henry didn't understand why I'd stopped getting into the car and started crying.
Walking back from a haircut the other day, I passed Café Racer, where on May 30th a gunman walked in and killed four people.
It's time we had an adult conversation in this country about guns.
On January 17, 1989, a gunman in Stockton, California walked onto a playground and opened fire, killing 5 children and injuring 30 more.
On July 1, 1993, a gunman in San Francisco walked into a law office and opened fire, killing 8 and injuring 6.
On April 20, 1999, two gunmen in Columbine, Colorado walked into their high school and opened fire, killing 13 people and injuring 21 others.
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Jul 20th, 2012 at 4:22 pm by susie
Congressional Progressive Caucus leaders Reps. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., and Keith Ellison, D-Minn., are trying to get political support for a congressional resolutionthat would repudiate any "grand bargain" on the federal deficit that cuts Social Security, Medicare or other programs vital to economic security.
Their resolution calls for a "Deal for All" that would protect Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid; contain "serious revenue increases," including corporate tax loopholes and higher tax brackets for the highest-income earners; significant reductions in defense spending; and "strong levels of job-creating Federal investments in areas such as infrastructure and education."000000000000000000000000000
The Caucus co-chairs issued a joint statement that said, "Congress is gearing up for high-stakes tax and budget negotiations, and we're standing with working families to make sure we build a stronger and fairer economy. While both parties will need to make sacrifices, we cannot do so at the expense of economic growth or the middle class. A balanced approach like the Deal for All would end tax breaks for the richest 2 percent, close tax loopholes for the wealthy and special interests, and ensure Americans don't lose the benefits they've paid into for decades such as Social Security and Medicare."
The "Deal for All" stands in sharp contrast to the Bowles-Simpson deficit reduction plan offered by the co-chairmen of President Obama's fiscal commission, Erskine Bowles and former Sen. Alan Simpson. That plan would, among other things, lower tax rates on the wealthiest Americans while cutting more than $400 billion from Medicare and Medicaid over the next 10 years and reducing cost-of-living adjustments for Social Security recipients.
Many Democrats are being pushed into believing that such policies are necessary to keep the government and the economy from falling over a "fiscal cliff" by the end of the year. Fortunately, some of these Democrats are pushing back, arguing that this is the time to end flawed tax policies that favored the wealthy at the expense of working-class Americans, and reject the austerity policies that we see failing miserably in Europe.
So far 38 members of the House have signed on to the resolution. Ask your member of Congress if he or she will also co-sponsor the resolution.
This would be a good time to call your congress critter and push.
Jul 20th, 2012 at 4:13 pm by susie
Out of something bad. We can all use a little inspiration today.
Jul 20th, 2012 at 11:02 am by susie
And people wonder why I'm suspicious about every prescription they hand me:
For years, a trio of anemia drugs known as Epogen, Procrit and Aranesp ranked among the best-selling prescription drugs in the United States, generating more than $8 billion a year for two companies, Amgen and Johnson & Johnson. But a Washington Post investigation shows that the benefits of the drugs — including "life satisfaction and happiness," according to the FDA-approved label — had to be retracted and that potentially lethal side effects, such as cancer and strokes, were overlooked. Millions of patients were subjected to dangerous doses that might have had little advantage.
The multibillion-dollar rise and fall of the anemia drugs illustrates how the economic incentives embedded in U.S. health care can make the system not only inefficient, but potentially deadly. Through a well-funded research and lobbying campaign, the drugmakers won far-reaching approvals from the FDA. Doses tripled in size. The pharmaceutical companies conducted trials that missed the dangers and touted benefits that years later would be deemed unproven. The companies took more than a decade to fulfill their research commitments. And when bureaucrats tried to rein in the largest doses, a high-powered lobbying effort began until Congress forced the regulators to let the drugs flow.
Jul 20th, 2012 at 11:00 am by susie
The fact that this lawsuit seems to involve CREDO makes me wonder if the feds aren't simply going after left-wing political activists, and not terrorists. I am deeply disappointed over the Obama administration's willingness to expand the warrantless surveillance state, but not surprised. It would be the same no matter who won the election — once this kind of power is legitimized, it is certain that it will be used. From the Wall Street Journal:
Early last year, the Federal Bureau of Investigation sent a secret letter to a phone company demanding that it turn over customer records for an investigation. The phone company then did something almost unheard of: It fought the letter in court.
The U.S. Department of Justice fired back with a serious accusation. It filed a civil complaint claiming that the company, by not handing over its files, was interfering "with the United States' sovereign interests" in national security.
The legal clash represents a rare and significant test of an investigative tool strengthened by the USA Patriot Act, the counterterrorism law enacted after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
The case is shrouded in secrecy. The person at the company who received the government's request—known as a "national security letter," or NSL—is legally barred from acknowledging the case, or even the letter's existence, to almost anyone but company lawyers.
"This is the most important national-security-letter case" in years, said Stephen Vladeck, a professor and expert on terrorism law at the American University Washington College of Law. "It raises a question Congress has been trying to answer: How do you protect the First Amendment rights of an NSL recipient at the same time as you protect the government's interest in secrecy?"
Although they can't legally confirm it, they go on to say that the process of elimination appears to point to Working Assets, which owns CREDO.
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