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Advent Reading, Luke 2: 1-7
Advent Reading, Zechariah 9: 9-13
How (Not) to Fake Your Own Death
A Honduran man living in the United States decided he was tired of his wife back home asking him for money so he decided to fake his own death.
Some tips:
- Don’t laugh while taking the pictures.
- The morgue doesn’t cover dead bodies with a pillow case.
- The morgue also doesn’t have double bed mattresses on the slabs.
My Title a Reign Was Short Lived
The other day I wondered if putting on my shoes and putting my shorts on over them made me the laziest person alive.
Today I relinquish that crown to this Ontario, California person who figured out how to mow their lawn without all that pushing and walking.
All hail the new Laziest Person Alive champion!
Just Joshin’
Behold the Liberty nickel. They’re really not gold colored, but in 1883 a clever deaf/mute named Josh Tatum came up with a novel get rich scheme.
He realized that the coin was similar in size to a five dollar gold piece and the “V” on the back lacked any mention of “cents”. He also guessed correctly that a sales clerk handed a gold plated version of the nickel would assume it was really the five dollar gold piece.
The brilliant part of his plan? When he was finally caught he successfully used the defense that, because he was deaf and dumb, he was unable to correct the clerks mistake in giving him back to much change.
How well did Mr. Tatum’s plan succeed? When someone figures out they’ve been conned with a line of BS, we still use the defense, “It’s ok, I was only joshing you!”
Just How Dysfunctional are the Caps?
Two weeks after the Washington Capitals won the Stanley Cup, their coach, Barry Trotz is out of a job.
Toronto’s Mike Babcock makes the most at $6.25 million on an eight-year deal after coaching Detroit for 10 seasons, Chicago’s Joel Quenneville is next at $6 million entering his ninth full season with the Blackhawks and Montreal’s Claude Julien brings in $5 million after coaching Boston for nine-plus seasons. All three have won the Cup like Trotz, including Quenneville three times.
The Caps apparently wanted to pay the coach who brought them two President’s Trophies and their first Cup two million bucks and wouldn’t commit to a five year deal. Trotz rightfully told them to “Take this job and shove it.”
I guess they want to go another 43 years before winning another cup.
It’s been about 17 years since the death of musician and riverboat pilot John Hartford. If you’re old enough to remember The Glenn Campbell show, John was the audience member that stood up with a banjo to start the theme song each show and would often do a “>musical number. He also was the resident banjo player “>on The Smothers Brothers show.
He was a virtuoso on the banjo and fiddle, witty and humorous, and almost as knowledgable of Mississippi river lore as Mark Twain.
Washington Capitals 2018 Cup Champs
Congratulations to Alex Ovechkin and his Washington Capitals. It took 14 seasons for him to erase the 43 season goose egg, but you can no longer say he and they have never won a Stanley Cup. That all ended last night with the Cap’s come from behind, 4-3 win, over the Las Vegas Golden Knights.
Ovie definitely earned the Conn Smythe trophy for playoff MVP with his 15 playoff goals this season.
But it was your job to know.
Former Michigan State University President Lou Anna Simons continued with her defense strategy of “pass the buck” during her testimony before a Michigan congressional hearing.
“in hindsight … there were clearly things that might have been warning signs.” However, Simon added, she believed that investigators at the time “did their best.”
The vast number of Nasser’s victims attests to the fact that “did their best” was woefully inadequate.
“There are warning signs here that should have been heeded earlier at the very top of Michigan State University,” said U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, the ranking Democratic member of the Senate subcommittee that held the hearing. “Apologies aren’t enough. We have to honor those survivors with real action.”
Senator Blumenthal is absolutely correct in his assessment. MSU needs to stop circling the wagons and trying to defend their indefensible inaction. Instead of trying to assert that Nassar somehow skirted the system and they’re blameless, they should be owning up to the idea that implementing such a flawed system to begin with was crucial to allowing Nassar to devastate so many people’s lives.
“If I had known about Nassar sooner, I would have fired him”
But you did know, and he was allowed to continue unabated for two more years. It was your job to know these things as President of MSU and you failed. Until you can admit you failed, there can’t be an honest dialog about how to prevent tragedies like this from happening in the future.
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2018/06/05/former-msu-president-simon-nassar-congress-hearing/674103002/
Shiny!
Wow, hard to believe it’s been15 years since Firefly blazed across my television. Even harder to believe that in 15 years not a single streaming service picked this show to revive. This was truly a show that ended way before i’ts time.
It was essentially a western set in space with a bit of Robin Hood mixed in. The crew of the Firefly loved adventure, loved each other, and loved their plucky little spaceship the Serenity. In one short season they also made a whole lot of fans fall in love with their universe.
So put on your browncoat, fire up a Firefly marathon, and keep it shiny!