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Religion...

What's sad - this doctor did the right thing by not making excuses for his religion... but the commenter Barbara Kay who is called out at the bottom basically makes it sound like he should have ignored his beliefs.

Blazing Cat Fur: My Muslim patients used to be pleasant and religion was not discussed...

Favorite Quotes

Removing a bunch of stuff from FB - slimming it down. I know that this blog is public access, but I still feel like I have more control over the content. So, here are my favorite quotes, formerly residing on my FB profile.

"Behold the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world."
-John 1:29

"I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile."
-Romans 1:16

"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. "
-James Madison

"Your opinion, although interesting, is irrelevant."
-Pragmatic Marketing.

"Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine, a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy."
-Ben Franklin

15 Albums

15 albums that had a profound effect on me, where I can use to identify time, places, people, emotions. These are the albums that no matter what they were thought of musically shaped my world.

1. Joshua Tree – U2
2. Ten – Pearl Jam
3. Life’s Rich Pageant – REM
4. Black Celebration – Depeche Mode
5. Disintegration – The Cure
6. The Michael W. Smith Project – Michael W. Smith
7. Josh Groban – Josh Groban
8. Seven and the Ragged Tiger – Duran Duran
9. Purple Rain – Prince
10. American Idiot – Green Day
11. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band – The Beatles
12. A Christmas Album – Amy Grant
13. Dream Into Action – Howard Jones
14. The Acapella Project – Glad
15. Third Stage – Boston

15 Books

Fifteen books I've read that will always stick with me, for whatever reasons.

Surprised by Joy, CS Lewis
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
The Road, Carmac McCarthy
The Memory of Running, Ron McLarty
Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert
A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson
blink, Malcom Gladwell
The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold
No Wonder They Call Him the Savior, Max Lucado
The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
Constitutional Chaos, Judge Andrew Napolitano
Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom
Left Behind, Tim LaHaye & Jerry B Jenkins
The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett
Godless: The Church of Liberalism, Ann Coulter

20 Movies

TWENTY movies I've seen that will always stick with me - First twenty I could recall in no more than fifteen minutes.

These are not in any particular order.

1. Gattica
2. The Breakfast Club
3. The Shawshank Redemption
4. Star Wars
5. Platoon
6. Dead Poets Society
7. The Princess Bride
8. The Matrix
9. Sliding Doors
10. It’s a Wonderful Life
11. American Beauty
12. Love Affair
13. A Christmas Story
14. Saving Private Ryan
15. Steel Magnoilas
16. The Patriot
17. The Sixth Sense
18. Silence of the Lambs
19. Fight Club
20. Vanilla Sky

Can we be more selfish?

The American people have sunk to a new low.
Hurricane Katrina Lawsuit

I'm not entirely sure why people expect hospitals to be able to not just predict a large scale natural disaster like Katrina, but to be fully prepared for it. Amazingly selfish. Yes, it is sad that 73 year old Althea died when the hospital could not supply power to the respirator that allowed her to breathe, and my condolences go out to her family. Did the fact that the entire hospital and most of the surrounding area were practically destroyed?

What is our nation becoming?