Questions and Concerns

I saw two very disturbing bumper stickers yesterday.
The first was a home made sign that said, "Impeach Bush." I want to know on what grounds we should impeach the president of the United States. I see that sign a lot, but so far, I haven't seen why. As far as I know being "the world's number one terrorist" is a little hard to prove in a court. And I haven't seen any evidence of any crime. Here is a link to a site listing the history of impeachment. By the way, since 1797 there have been 16 impeachments, only 2 of them presidents and neither of them were convicted.
The second bumper sticker said, "Frodo failed, Bush has the ring." This one really chapped my hide. I tried looking for a decent discussion about what they mean by it, but to little avail. Apparently, there is a rumor that Rick Santorum, a legislator said that the Eye of Mordor was being drawn to Iraq, and away from the US. Some smarty-pants Liberal thought it would be cute to play with this, and came up with the dumb bumper sticker. Are they actually saying that Bush=the Dark Lord of Mordor? Excuse me, but last I checked, he is the duly elected president of our great nation. I didn't know he was a purely evil god bent on the destruction of life by using hordes of mutated elves, dragons, and undead ghost-kings.....
Just my thoughts for the day.

Nothing Better

There is nothing better
Than Greek and WSU football.
Leaves Change
Adjectives confuse
WSU scores.
Leaves Fall
Meanings gell
WSU holds 'em to 15 first half.
Ahh....

My Weekend

So, this is what I did this weekend...what did you do?
All the words on the right side were originally in Greek font, but I guess Blogspot doesn't have Greek. It also doesn't keep the formatting of the original copy I copied this from. It was originally much more organised.

Ephesians 3:14-21 Syntactical Analysis.

toutou Dem. Pronoun, Neut.Gen.Sing., Antecedent=the preceding
ideas in 2:19-22 including Paul’s role, the nature of the church, and Paul's
experience because of his role, because of this

carin Noun, Fem.Acc.Sing., Preposition of Cause, because of

kamptw Pres.Act.Ind.1st.Sing, Iterative(Wallace 223), I am
repeatedly bending

ta Article, Neut.Acc.Pl., Simple ID, the

gonata Noun, Neut.Acc.Pl., Dir. Obj, knees

mou Pers.Pro., Masc.Gen.Sing. Antecedant=Paul, Possesive, my

proV Prep. w/Acc., to

ton Article, Masc.Acc.Sing., PrevRef

patera, Noun, Masc.Acc.Sing., Obj of Prep, Father Textual
Problem:Most Likely Catalyst, Mss Support, father

ex Prep. w/Gen., Prep. of Source, from

ou Rel.Pron., Masc.Gen.Sing., Antec=patera

pasa adj., Fem.Nom.Sing., 2nd Attrib., from

patria Noun, Fem.Nom.Sing, Subj N, family (TDNT 5, 1017
gives idea of the origin of all things, connecting back to
God. father

en Prep w/Dat of Location, in

ouranoi V Noun, Dat.Masc.Pl., See prep “en” Why plural? Idiomatic
Pl. Textual Prob.? Some singular. Variant has weak textual
support. Pauline style supports plural (1:10, 4:10, 6:9, et.
al.)., heavens

kai Conj., Continuative, and

epi Prep. w/.Gen, upon


We also worked this up:

It's a diagram of Ephesians 3:14 through 16b (?)
My head hurts.....

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Clearly, the chimpanzee felt disgruntled at the cutbacks
in the "afternoon banana time treat" budget.
Interestingly, he is employing a rather odd half-gangster style shooting form.
Not too good for accuracy. Well, it is a Glock, so just firing it is not too good for accuracy.

It's been a while since I blogged.
I worked 206 hours in Aug/Sept.
I started Greek Exegesis II and Old Testament Exposition.
I've been a little busy.

It's not Haiku, but its close.

the first cold shower;
even the monkey seems to want
a little coat of straw.

Now THAT'S Haiku!!

Time to grill the salmon.

Vacation II

Remember, at a High Mass the subdeacon no longer wears the humeral veil; the paten is left upon the altar, and the subdeacon joins the deacon in assisting the celebrant.
Thus endeth my instructions regarding the "Vacation II" post.
When we last ended I was describing our trip home from Spokane. Karen and I wanted to take some pictures of the area where we grew up.
This is a picture along Highway 395, near the junction of Highway 17. If there is a "nowhere" this is really close. This picture is typical for this time of year in Eastern Washington. I think it was a little cooler than normal that morning, only around 80F. For a long time the signs here didn't include "Othello." We were really excited when they changed the sign and we were on it.




This is a view looking Southwest from 395. The mountain in the distance is Rattlesnake Ridge. Rumor has it that it is the tallest hill in America without a tree on it, but I can't find any substanciation on that. You can decide for yourself. Here is a link to another blog with the same claim. Hey, if two people who do not know each other make the same claim, it must be true, right? Anyway, as you can see, there are vast areas of flatness in Eastern Washington puntuated by high ridges. And farms, lots of farms.

This was taken several miles down 395. They have harvested the wheat in this field, then cut and baled the straw, and are now picking it up to stack it. If I remember that is a John Deere 4850 driving around there.

Well, after viewing all this excitement, we met my sister for lunch, which was very fun, then made our way home. We stopped at REI in Tuallatin before continuing to Salem. Karen got the hiking bug after trying out some backpacks.

I close with perhaps my favorite pic of the trip......

Owl poo. Cool.

Finally, News from the Vacation, Ch. 1

I finally have a minuet to sit down and do a thourough job reporting on our vacation! I got back, worked a long week, then had an IICRC class for work. I learned how to do repairs that I have already been doing for 5 years, but at least I'm certified now!
Well, Karen and I left home for Washington Saturday, July 22. We left late because I had to work Friday night until 10:30pm. We drove a rental because our Outback was going in for a face-lift and hip surgery (new front bumper and fixing a dent on the rear quarter panel). It turned out the vehicle we has reserved was unavailable, so they had to give us a luxury car! It was a brand-new Mercury Montego. A nice cat indeed. I chronicled our time at my parent's house already, so I won't dwell on it much, other than to post a few pics.
This is my dad. I am up in his bucket truck, about 40ft. off the ground.

Notice in this corner the hay bales and hay bunk. There are currently about 12 lambs occupying the pasture around my parents' house.

This is the dog. His name is Sam. He's old.

There were the typical beautiful sunsets while we were there. The mountain at center is Mt. Rainier

We had a lot of fun...













From there we went to Karen's parents' cabin near Deer Lake, Washington. It is a great "cabin" tucked back in the woods, but still close to the lake.
We went boating a lot


This is Karen being dragged along by her papa. He tied a rope with a buoy on the end so swimmers wouldn't float way. The wind would push the boat across the lake, so he had to move it. He'd just putt along and pull us through the water.

There was an osprey nest near thier cabin. I went up to take some pics of them. They are a beautiful bird, and smart. This one is the female. She would fly off and grab a stick and dive-bomb me with them. She got within about 10ft. of me at one point. I decided it was time to leave them alone for a while.

We (Frank and I) also did some projects around the place and went shooting. It was nice doing some manly stuff with him.
Just down the road from thier cabin there are hundreds of acres of dry-land wheat fields. They have been growing wheat in the Spokane area for over 100 years. If anyone is interested, there is a large farm for sale along Hywy 395 for sale. The fields with the mountains in the distance are breathtaking. Spokane was at one time the biggest city in Washington, largely because of wheat production. We noticed also that the area is relatively clean. There wasn't very much garbage along the road, and where Frank and I went shooting there wasn't the piles of garbage there are in some of the areas of Oregon. There is also much more small areas of private property. Here in Western Oregon, the land is either Weyerhauser or State Forest. Eastern Oregon has either huge ranches or BLM land. Near Spokane there were lots of medium-size farms and little 20 acre areas of forest.
Well, it seems I've uploaded the max ammount, so I'll post a "Vacation II" post later. It will loosten regulations for readers and all posts will now be in the native language, rather than in Latin. Also, the phrase, "anoiting the sick" shall replace "extreme unction." Further, all things destined for use in divine worship should have simple dignity; lavish display does not accord with the worship of God (I guess they haven't gotten around to taking down all the "lavish displays" at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre). Each blog should have its own Commission of Sacred Art; ecclesiastical laws, relating to the building of posts, are to be revised wherever necessary. ;-) I am of course, jesting.