These admittedly are random, but I needed a break this week. These are also said lightly and just for fun.
What does it say about a sport if one of the most manly costumes worn consists of a pink sweater vest?
Male pair figure skaters are not considered to be really macho, yet who among us can hoist our wives over our heads with one arm?
Maybe a better question: Why does anyone standing on a slippery surface want to hoist a woman wearing 10″ blades above their head? I would have liked to have been in the meeting where that was first purposed as a beautiful and good idea.
Is it really a sport (curling) if the rules state there needs to be snacks and beer at each end of the court?
How come snowboarders have to wear team uniforms but figure skaters don’t?
Chris Collinsworth as a key commentator on the Winter Olympics? Is football in the Olympics?
Then again, I think I would take Chris Collinsworth and throw in Billy Packer calling the figure skating over the people they have sighing it disgust throughout the program.
LJUBLJANA (Reuters) – A Slovenian who saved his three dogs from being put down for attacking humans was himself mauled to death by them, police said Wednesday.
“Three dogs bit their 52-year-old owner to death in Ljubljana yesterday,” police spokeswoman Maja Adlesic said.
Four years ago, the three bullmastiffs attacked and seriously injured a passer-by outside their owner’s house. They spent years in custody pending legal hearings, but when one of them attacked a dog handler, authorities ordered them to be put down.
Their owner, a doctor, succeeded last June in his legal appeals to get the dogs back, sparking a national controversy. After his death, an opposition party said the agriculture minister should resign for failing to stop the dogs from being released.
The dogs attacked the man in his garden Tuesday, killing him before the police arrived. All three dogs were put down following the attack.
The tragedy of the earthquakes that have hit Haiti and left many children orphaned as been overwhelming. Several days ago Indianapolis received news that it may have the opportunity to care for or even adopt 300 of these Haitian children. Within minutes there were over a thousand in the Indianapolis area requesting to care for or adopt these children. That kind of a response is encouraging. That compassion is lifting.
As I was checking back into the possibility of these children arriving in Indianapolis I discovered that the government red tape may hold things up for quite some time. But at the end of an article from WISHTV I was hit by the closing sentences:
He says many bureaucratic hurdles must be cleared before any Haitian orphans are flown to Indiana. Might it still happen? Perhaps. But he says it’s unlikely to be soon. But the Director of the Indiana Department of Child Services says there are still many opportunities for Hoosiers to help a child.
“We have 250 children today who are adoptable – who are ready and waiting for a family to step forward and adopt them,” he said.
250 Children that have been sitting right here in Indiana all this time, that have had a need that has not seen a response. Sometimes we need tragedy to open our eyes, and our desire should be to help. Many tragedies happen half way around the world, and this does not mean that if we have opportunity that would should not help, but they can also be a a challenge for us to question whether we are responding to needs that God has placed right in our own community? We won’t all be able to adopt, but we are all called as Christians to show the love of Christ. Are we looking for ways to express that in our own communities?
Matthew 10:42
42 And whoever gives one of these little ones even a cup of cold water because he is a disciple, truly, I say to you, he will by no means lose his reward.”
(The pictures in the article are of children in Indiana waiting to be adopted)
The best judges of your humility are those in authority over you, rather than your peers or those you consider beneath you. If you cannot trust the opinion or judgment from those in authority over you, you probably need humility.
The kids have been wanting this one for awhile now, so here it goes. They also wanted “Grandma got run over by a reindeer“. It will only make it as a link. And Happy Birthday to Beth as well!
