laneys.info Beware of Yankees, drunks, and loose women.

Now that we're all done patching our computer systems and compensating for unpatchable devices that jumped forward another hour last Sunday, the data is starting to roll in that our extra weeks of Daylight Saving Time achieved exactly squat. Ars Technica, a technology site, has a story on the lack of savings and references a story by Reuters as their evidence.

Consumerism masks the need we all have to turn inward to encounter God immanent at our core. The call to find satisfaction in acquisitions masks the call of the Spirit to find God within.

I got an email forwarded to me today, asking me to take action and contact my representatives in Congress in opposition to House of Representatives bill HR 254.  The alert warned of dire consequences if this bill should become law, not because of the contents of the bill itself, but because of the slippery slope the bill would create.

Unfortunately, the alert originally came from the American Family Association, a group that I long ago added to my email filter because of their propensity for reactionary, alarmist hyperbole.  This alert was no different.  The problem I have is with the message that the AFA sends with such opposition.

"We are commanded to love God with all our minds, as well as with all our hearts, and we commit a great sin if we forbid or prevent that cultivation of the mind in others which would enable them to perform this duty."

“It was an hour in our history that troubled our minds and tore at our hearts.  Anger and hatred had risen to dangerous levels, dividing friends and families. The polarization of our political order had aroused unworthy passions of reprisal and revenge. Our governmental system was closer to stalemate than at any time since Abraham Lincoln took that same oath of office.”

— Gerald R. Ford, Jr., speaking of his inauguration

And so it is again, today.  Who will be the next Gerald Ford?