July « 2010 « POWIP

28Jul/1028

Commenter and All-Around Outstanding Person, Cowboy

I received an email from Cowboy (aka "Catholic Cowboy") requesting prayers.

Cowboy, whose first bout with Cancer was in 1979, is an on-and-off commenter here, at JG's place, and I have even seen him on Patterico.com.

He is heavily medicated at present, having endured another surgery wherein the surgeons removed some lymph nodes, etc.

The "good news" is that what they found is a slow growing variety of Cancer. Cowboy comments that he's "more likely to die of old age" than of the cancer they discovered.

The carcinoid and lymph node are VERY slow growing cancers--so much so that people generally die of old age long before the tumor can kill them. We're mostly worried about the liver spot.

The decidedly bad news is that the doctors also spotted a spot on his liver. This has him very concerned. But in true Cowboy fashion, he is not so concerned for himself but for his family.

I have been in this situation many times. My first operation for cancer was in 1979, so I'm used to it. But Enoch, I worry so much about my family. Any prayers you can pass their way would be more than appreciated.

Today, Cowboy will have more tests conducted to determine what is what with regard to the spot.

He asks for prayers from any and all who are so inclined to say them. He is a devout Christian and a man of faith.

So, I am posting this message here to encourage all well-wishers to spend some moments in their inner room asking for God's blessings.

If I were to consider Cowboy's likely take, he would be asking not so much for a cure (although that would be great, of course), but for strength to endure as the Christ would have him. To provide him and those who love him with the ability to pick up his cross and carry it in the path of Jesus.

So, I offer the following:

Dear God, Creator of Heaven and Earth, of all that is seen and unseen - Immortal One, we beseech thee to send your Holy Spirit to our brother Cowboy. We petition thee to provide him strength and resolve today and in the days that follow. Provide him comfort in the knowing that his suffering is not without merit. Provide him constant companionship in these hours of darkness. May he feel your presence. And may the Grace of the Holy Spirit fill him with hope in the Eternal Promises of the Christ. May he continue to fight the good fight.

Dearest Virgin Mother, Heavenly Queen - Queen of the Cosmos, Mother of God, Tower of Ivory Eternal - "never was it known that any who sought thy help and intercession was left unaided. Inspired with this confidence, [we] fly unto thee, oh Virgin of virgins, [our] Mother. Despise not [our] petitions, but in thy mercy hear and answer [us]." Mother of the Word Incarnate - please petition thy son, Eternal Mercy, on behalf of our brother, Mathew (Cowboy). Please petition Jesus to allow Cowboy to touch His Vestments... and, if it be the will of God, to place His hand upon Mathew and cure his body. If this is not to be, please ask your son, Our Lord, to kindly accept Cowboy's suffering for the sake of souls in most need of His Mercy.

Lord God, Bless Mathew and his family during these hours of anxiety.

We ask this in the name of Christ, Our Lord,

Amen.

Enoch_Root

AKA. Bobby Donn Brubaker (the most popular man in Mesa, AZ), the Umbrella of Terror, Jack Ketch.

Website - More Posts

Tagged as: Pulling for Cowboy 28 Comments

28Jul/103

Breaking – Fellow-Thunderbird Alumnus “Ascends” to BP CEO

T-bird grad Robert Dudley chosen to be new BP chief executive http://bit.ly/dhDHGB

Hmmmm. Not sure I would want this gig.

Another '79 Thunderbird:

Enoch_Root

AKA. Bobby Donn Brubaker (the most popular man in Mesa, AZ), the Umbrella of Terror, Jack Ketch.

Website - More Posts

Filed under: Too Lazy to Categorize 3 Comments

27Jul/108

Today on craigslist: Hey there stranger, let’s go camping

This could be you Jerry Wilson!

A mature, hetero man from the San Francisco Bay area is looking for 3 complete strangers with $300 a piece to go freaking Yosemite National Park with him. He's not just taking first come first serve. He's briefly meeting all the applicants and will pick the three that are the "best fit" (for his steamer trunk).

UPDATE by Dan: With no connection, expressed or implied, to Jerry Wilson:

Further, Li knew or ought to have known that "parading around with the decapitated head and showing off the decapitated head, the cutting off of Tim McLean's nose, ears, tongue, the cannibalizing of Tim McLean's eyes and heart in plain view of the plaintiff would cause nervous shock and post-traumatic stress disorder," the documents says.

That's, like, metacrazy.

Kill Truck

KillTruck is a wife, mother, blogger and native midwesterner now living in Eastern Washington state. She writes about politics, pop culture, parenting, wifing and a few other subjects she has no authority to write about. She has macabre fascinations with prostitution and/or cannibalism. In her free time she enjoys eating and/or drinking her feelings, liveblogging Lifetime movies, thinking about Scott Brown and mocking things she doesn’t understand.

Website - More Posts

Tagged as: CraigsList, jerry wilson, Murder, yosemite 8 Comments

27Jul/104

SCIENCE! at POWIP

At post-Scientific American, Princeton scientist manages to tie Cap & Trade to Immigration Reform, unfortunately a little late for this legislative session. Timing is everything.

Also, at Twitter @pssterika asks whether pop-ularity of Christina Hendricks (size 14) means that men are turning toward curvier. Without any evidence at all, I will postulate that in times of economic deprivation, men want to see women whose bodies say "abbondanza". In case we get really, really hungry later. And if anyone wants to provide me a few hundred thousand bucks to do research, I'm confident that I can find the evidence.

Dan Collins

Dan Collins is a dude who blogs. He used to blog elsewhere. Now he blogs here.

Website - More Posts

Filed under: Too Lazy to Categorize 4 Comments

27Jul/103

The League of Extraordinarily Unlinked Bloggers

An adjunct organization to The Island of Misfit Bloggers, has been inaugurated by Jerry Wilson of Goldfish and Clowns. Look in the sidebar. I hope I am not disappointing him by linking. UPDATE: New blog post.

Mostly unrelated: Frank J and Sarah K are extremists.

At Michelle's, Obamas feeling the pain, sharing the sacrifice. Their finances have suffered, too. So, don't be Jealous. I mean Benvious.

Dan Riehl broke the story of how St. Shirley of Charade's husband, Charles, doesn't care much for Whitey and his Uncles Tom (or "negroes," if you prefer). It got him noticed by those stellar "journalists" at Media Matters.

Jesse Jackson wants a black national anthem. Frank J wonders whether "Theme from Shaft" would be racist. I don't know, but I do think it would be hard to manage a cappella.

Dan Collins

Dan Collins is a dude who blogs. He used to blog elsewhere. Now he blogs here.

Website - More Posts

Filed under: Too Lazy to Categorize 3 Comments

27Jul/102

The Car Dealership Closings, Revisited

You may recall the flak we took from some commenters over our analysis that the Chrysler and GM dealership closings were done in an ad hoc manner meant to benefit Obama's supporters and to operate as a form of affirmative action. We could tell this simply by the numbers and distributions, given that the government wasn't about to release their "formula."

Decisions on which car dealerships to close as part of the auto industry bailout — closures the Obama administration forced on General Motors and Chrysler — were based in part on race and gender, according to a report by Troubled Asset Relief Program Special Inspector General Neal M. Barofsky. …

Thus, to meet numbers forced on them by the Obama administration, General Motors and Chrysler were forced to shutter other, potentially more viable, dealerships. The livelihood of potentially tens of thousands of families was thus eliminated simply because their dealerships were not minority- or woman-owned.

Duh. Oh, I see the MSM are all over this outrage.

If Bush had used car dealership closings to benefit his political patrons, he would have been impeached for that alone . . . and rightly, too.

Related thoughts from Clarice.

Dan Collins

Dan Collins is a dude who blogs. He used to blog elsewhere. Now he blogs here.

Website - More Posts

Filed under: Too Lazy to Categorize 2 Comments

27Jul/103

U.K. Fighter follies

Oh, pardon me, I mean mil-ah-tree air-croft, so sorry old man; as a pair of Harrier (pronounced, Hah-ree-ar, don't you know) pilots here on an exchange program corrected me once. And maybe they had a point, considering most of their ships are multi-role; what we would call Fighter/Attack in our armed forces.

But, as the photo record confirms in this Daily Mail article confirms, don't be fooled by the what may incorrectly percieve as a pretentious or condescending temperment among some British warriors, it's merely a reflection of institutional insistence on precise verbage as well as gentlemanly reserve; these guys like to have fun as much as anybody else. And, while this isn't exactly Monty Python, whaddaya want? Indeed, our Whizzo's used to occasionally engage in amusing, and sometimes rude, signage as well. But, you know, they weren't busy driving the plane; pilots really only occasionally have time for a judiciously chosen, ahem, hand signal...

But I must point out a couple of errors in the body of the article. First, the back seater in the Tornado is not simply the navigator. Just like in our military aircraft, he is the Whizzo(WSO), or weapons systems operator; which is a combination navigator/weapons officer/flight engineer and works closely with the pilot to optimize the crew's situational awareness at all times as well as the overall mission effectiveness. The second, well, that would be their reference to Top Gun, which would be OK if they were only talking about the movie starring my beloved Tomcat; and I mean the F-14, not Tom Cruise. No, the US NAVY Fighter Weapons School at NAS(now MCAS) Miramar in Sandy Eggo is properly referred to as "TOPGUN"; one word, all caps.

You know, since we want to be precise; like Mil-ah-tree Air-croft, eh what? And not just because I want to pick at nits.

Rocketman

Tagged as: Funnies, Tornado GR4 3 Comments

26Jul/106

A Little Christology for the Priests

New International Version (©1984)
"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin."

And yet, good Fathers, this passage is beyond understanding if there are not those who labor and spin. It is easy for the religious contemplatives to forget this, just as it is easy for the secular contemplatives at universities, but the fact remains that the contemplative life is completely--always has and always will be--dependent on the active.

The world that Christ portrays and lives in is the world of the free market. It is a world that ideologues repeatedly tempt him to repudiate, but which he does not. It is certainly not due to a lack of insight into the human condition. So, then, why, reverend Fathers, does he accept the aspect of Caesar on the coinage of this world? Is it because he is afraid?

Oh, yes: you are very brave, Beloved.

Dan Collins

Dan Collins is a dude who blogs. He used to blog elsewhere. Now he blogs here.

Website - More Posts

Filed under: Too Lazy to Categorize 6 Comments

26Jul/102

Today’s entry for the “a picture is worth a thousand words” file

A preview of the President's appearance on "The View"

Is there anything I really need to, or can, add to this?

Photo courtesy of hackedirl

(H/T bh in the comments at Protein Wisdom)

Rocketman

Tagged as: blather, Full of Hot air, Obama, palaver 2 Comments

26Jul/102

Cruising craigslist with KillTruck

When I'm not mocking politics and/or pop culture I'm watching true crime shows. When I'm not watching true crime shows I'm watching the Lifetime Movie Network (aka proof Jesus loves me). When I'm not doing any of that stuff I'm working on un-HGTVing my mid-century modern house, which leads to cruising craigslist daily. I've been tweeting my most bizarre finds, and Dan suggested doing a "best of craigslist" series for POWIP. He's the boss. I think it's only fitting, and American, to start our voyage where the free market goes to die, Washington DC.

(We know this one involves Jim Treacher. The only question is whether he's the poster or the replier.)Missed connections - Wow!!! I mean wow! I don't think I've seen anyone as gorgeous as you ever. You got on at Chinatown and got off at union station this morning around 8:40. I wanted to say something to you but I looked like a bum this morning in my t-shirt. Hopefully I'll see you tonight or hear from you on here, I'd love to get a drink or something.

Services, therapeutic

Day of SPA Get your Free Manicure or Free body scrub when you book an hour of full body massage, $69
Add $20 for Pedicure, Only for Early bird before 2 pm everyday
Call xxx-xxx-xxxx, Be ready for the day.
Off New xxxxxxxx Ave, Behind Shell Gas Station,
Wax/ Laser Hair Removal / Weight Loss / Body Scrub/ Body Rub
Outcall Service Availble . 2 therapists $199 for An Hour, + tip (not that tip, Al)�
Normal Price 2 hand: $ 80 + tip ,
4 Hands $199, in house, Out call, $299 ,
Special offer is good until the mid Aug.

Business(2 birds, 1 stone congressional Dems!)

FRANCHISED PACKAGING AND SHIPPING STORE IN ALEXANDRIA WITH WESTERN UNION MONEY TRANSFER, FAX , COPY , NOTARY AND
MAILBOXES SERVICES AND ALSO CUSTOM PACKAGING AND FOAM IN PLACE ETC. AVAILABLE FOR IMMEDIATE SALE. CALL:
# xxx-xxx-xxxx AND ASK FOR SURESH. THANKS ANY REASONABLE OFFER WILL BE CONSIDERED. OWNER DESPERATE TO SELL TO MOVE OUT OF STATE AND OWNER FINANCING MAY BE AVAILABLE.

Free - battery chargers for hobbies. If interested, please reply to posting.(I don't even wanna know. OK, I do. I think. Maybe. Ew.)

Rock a bye Rahm. Delta Luv Martinique Toddler Bed. This is a dropside crib that converts into a toddler bed. We are giving this away as a a toddler bed. It also converts into a full-size headboard/footboard...