Say What? Gamble Rodgers FF 2011

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I had a great day in Jacksonville, Florida.

What Fresh Hell?

This is email from my brother: nO kidding, he lives in Arkansas


From College Station, Texas:

The Pachuca family says an image on their pickup truck is a miracle. The image, that came in an unlikely form of a bird dropping, appeared Sunday July 12. That was the first time Salvador Pachuca had been back to the home since having an accident there four months ago. "I told my brothers come over here and see what this is and they say this is the Virgin," says Salvador Pachuca.Family members made their way outside to see the image on the truck's side mirror. Cristal Pachuca says she took pictures and began making calls to invite others to see, what she describes as, a miracle."We just all feel protected. It's a blessing to our family and to everybody that comes to see it," says Cristal Pachuca.Cristal says the truck doesn't get much use, but last weekend her husband decided to take it out of their garage and wash it. A few moments later the image appeared. Since Sunday, a steady stream of family, friends, neighbors and strangers have stopped by to pray and take pictures of the image.The Pachuca's say the image is more than a coincidence especially since it happened on the 12. The family says in Mexico, December 12 is celebrated as the day of The Virgin Guadalupe. Onlookers say the image is a miracle because the distinct colors and outline of the image on the truck match the image of Virgin Guadalupe.The Pachuca's say they will continue to welcome anyone who wants to see the image, because the image isn't going to go away anytime soon."I think we're going to just put it on a shelf outside, probably take off the mirror and keep it there cause its something special to us. I'm not going to wash it off," says Cristal Pachuca.

OK, now let's go over this. "... the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible ..." as He is described in the Nicene Creed, has decided:
a) to perform a miracle
b) on the side mirror of a
c) Mexican's
d) pickup truck,
e) using guano,
f) in the town which is home to the Aggies, who are
g) the butt of nearly every joke told in Texas and Oklahoma.

I find this troubling.
You mean to tell me that Jehovah can't do any better than this? This ain't no kind of miracle. Guano ain't no miracle. Turning the Sears Tower into a thousand-foot-tall statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary, now THAT would be a miracle. The only thing miraculous here is that the bird missed the windshield which would be a lot harder than a side mirror to remove and put "on a shelf outside" as Miss Pachucaen visions.And do these people really not understand the difference between July and December? Months are not interchangeable, you know.So people in America, or at least Texas, think that I Am That I Am plays cheap tricks that are fit to show on Spike TV and to sell in Spencer's Gifts. (Twenty years ago I got my girlfriend a spray-can of bullshit repellent there, so she could spritz her office whenever a student came in with some lame, whiny excuse. I love that place. Where else can you get patchouli oil today?)Seems to me we have lessened our expectations of Martin Luther's Mighty Fortress.

On another note, I used to share a duplex with an Aggie, and I can tell you definitively that it is not possible to tell an Aggie joke that is untrue.They really are that dumb.

Photo of the Moment

Just had to go back to my roots.

Too long in the sun of St Augustine. What a chump. To Witt:

Augustine of Hippo (pronounced /screw you we're from Texas) (Latin: Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis; (November 13, 354 – August 28, 430), Bishop of Hippo Regius, also known as St. Augustine or St. Austin, was a philosopher and theologian.

Augustine, a Latin church father, is one of the most important figures in the development of Western Christianity. Augustine was heavily influenced by the Neo-Platonism of Plotinus. He framed the concepts of original sin and just war. (2259 days since 'mission accomplished') When the Roman Empire in the West was starting to disintegrate, Augustine developed the concept of the Church as a spiritual City of God distinct from the material City of Man. His thought profoundly influenced the medieval worldview. Augustine's City of God was closely identified with the church, and was the community which worshipped God.
Augustine was born in the city of Thagaste, the present day Souk Ahras, Algeria, (say what?) to a Catholic mother named Monica. He was educated in North Africa (say what?) and resisted his mother's pleas to become Christian. Living as a pagan intellectual, he took a concubine (living in sin) and became a Manichean (WTF). Later he converted to the Catholic Church, became a bishop, and opposed heresies, such as the belief that people can have the ability to choose to be good to such a degree as to merit salvation without divine aid (Pelagianism).

The Republicans of America, got the part about a just War, well ok the war part. To bad he finally listened to his bitch of a mother. I mean if that lack luster baby mill had kept her mouth shut the world would be a very different place. Where the hell was his old man? out bangin' 'round?, While his ol' lady is setting the world up for Barbara's misbegotten one, 15 centuries later? Boys need Mother figures who don't want them to suck, and Father figures who don't want them to blow.

of course that's just my opinion, i could be wrong.