HARMLESS THOUGHTS

LARRY NORMAN 4/8/47 - 2/24/08 "Goodbye, farewell, we'll meet again Somewhere beyond the sky. I pray that you will stay with God Goodbye, my friends, goodbye." (Larry Norman) The news from his website here . Steve Camp talking about him here . I put this up here because it was through the music of guys like Larry Norman and Keith Green (and my friend Dan First that introduced me to their music) that I first realized that this Christianity business was real. Before them the Bible was very compartmentalized and had no real impact on my day to day life. Here are a few of his songs that I could find on You Tube: For some reason, one of my favorites: Another Favorite, and gives you an idea of his circle of friends: A song that was written for Janis Joplin: update: (If you would like to see a picture of him with a fellow blogger of mine... While he is wearing the same shirt from the above video! ... then click here .) Here is is much later in life singing the same song: A son...

[thanks to a small faith ]

Obama's Public Religion (Intellectuelle) Sorry. I know this isn't one of mine, but I thought that I would share it.

Here is a link to some more stuff. Thanks to the "Intellectuelle Blogger" who posted this.

Thank you Tim Hawkins! You have captured the essence of so many people I know from the great state of Indiana.

I am a math teacher and I have been a statistics teacher. I "get" numbers, at least to some extent, so, I am not going to get in a numbers war with anyone. Besides, that wouldn't really solve anything. Even so, I want to share some numbers with you. Before I share, I would like to say that I am not trying to build a case for the Bush Administration. That is not my point, but I have heard more than one person justify voting for a non-Pro-Life candidate based on the numbers of abortions rising during the Bush presidency. Something about the effectiveness of a candidate compared to their political stand . I wasn't sure about that so before I ran my blog-mouth I did a little research. Here is a good summary statement to so much of what I found. So, the Abortion numbers: [T]hose numbers come from a flawed study conducted by a researcher who used faulty data to survey the rise or fall of abortions during the Bush administration. Glen Harold Stassen a professor of Chr...

“If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.” C.S. Lewis