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Friday, August 01, 2008

Friday Mishmash

A Story of Injustice

Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the greatest injustice. ~ Arcesilaus

I invite you to click over to Candid Yammering and read her post, Omar Goes Home

Deportee
~ Peter, Paul & Mary



Sometimes It Takes a Bit of Research

One of my old college chums forwarded the following to me yesterday:

THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

I know that some of you don't like to read long drawn out missives ... so here's the executive summary.........

Congress Military

John McCain 26 Years 22 Years

Barack Obama 143 Days 0

So I did a bit of quick historical research and emailed the following back to him:

President


Congress


Military





Ronald Reagan


0


0

Bill Clinton


0


0

George W. Bush


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Ha!

Hubert Hoover


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Franklin D. Roosevelt


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Calvin Coolidge


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Woodrow Wilson


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William H. Taft


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William McKinley


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Grover Cleveland


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Millard Fillmore


0


0

John Q. Adams


0


0

James Monroe


0


0

James Madison


0


0

Thomas Jefferson


0


0

John Adams


0


0










Are You Looking for Alex?


If you’ve come here looking for Alex, the furball who owns me, you can finds lots of blogging by and about him—Alex’s most used blog tag is ME—at his blog: Alexicon. OK?






All My Other Blogs




As I previously wrote, I removed the blog list from the sidebar of Nick’s Bytes after that Blogger error code locked everyone, including me. I’m in the process—slow process—of relisting the 160 or so blog links I had on that blog list into a new blog: St. Nick’s Splendid Blog Roll. I am only through the letter C in its construction; however, I do invite you to drop by and comment on what you may like or dislike about it.




I have also reactivated my long neglected blog, UCC on the Net, that I began as a bit of ministry as my pastoring days came to an end. I also invite you to drop by and comment on what you may like or dislike about it.


Next Celebration…

Having recently completed the 1,000th Blog Post celebration, the next in line for Nick’s Bytes is the 100,000th Visitor. As of this writing, the visitor thingie (on my sidebar) reads 99,028. If visitors come by as usual, that means that visitor Number 100,000 will be by within the next week or so.

So…. Please take a glance at the visitor thing and, if you turn out to be the 100,000th visitor, please tell me about it in a comment to Nick’s Bytes or in an email. Thanks.


31 comments:

  1. I remember that your President Lincoln said “I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.”

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  2. Nick, you're very kind to link me here. Hugs to you and Alex!

    -Candid

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  3. Yeah, I showed that "Ha!" to my son. He too got a kick out of it.

    Wonder what prize will be coming to the 100,000th visitor. :-D

    Then again, your blog is prize enough.

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  4. I agree with San. Your blog is a priceless prize.

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  5. Great reply to your friend's numbers! I also agree with the Arcesilaus quote.

    I will take some time soon to wander about your other sites.

    Peace to you this beautiful summer day!

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  6. George Bush...HA! Love it!

    and 1,ooo posts????? and 100,000 visitors????you rock!

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  7. Have I toldyou that my Synagogue and the UCC congregation across the streets have bible study groups together and we just recently had ecumenical at bot of our buildings. Wonderful people and the times I have attended the study group have been great. No one is out to convert one another but we do have a better understanding of our faiths and that's a powerful thing. Too bad you're not closer, you would be great at one of these gatherings.

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  8. That quote by Arcesilaus is sooooooo true! and lol with everyone else @ the "ha" for the $hrub's alleged military service ;)

    I'm 99118...you're getting close!

    Ricardo's comment contains cool info too.

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  9. Nick, I wonder if the problems you had with your blogroll happened because yours is so much bigger than most people's. Maybe you'd be better off with four or five widgets with twenty or thirty listings each instead of one big widget with 140.

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  10. Jean Marc: Thank you. I had not read that Lincoln quote. I like it.


    Day Dreamer: You are more than welcome. Your post is one that desires—needs—to be read.


    Baba Doodlius: When I looked at Bush and remembered his flying onto that aircraft carrier and getting out of the plane in his flight suit to announce to the world that the war in Iraq was over, the “Ha!” was what came to my mind.


    San: I’m glad my “Ha!” has been appreciate by so many! I was thinking of an autographed picture of Alex as the “prize” for the 100,000th visitor. What do you think?

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  11. Abby: Thank you. You realize that I believe that you have been commenting on Nick’s Bytes longer than anyone who still leaves comments? Abby, have you ever considered writing a blog yourself?


    Carol: Thank you. It has been a most peaceful day around here. In a few minutes I must open the doors and call my furball back inside: Alex has been catting around for most of the past 15 hours! (The exceptions being the 3 times he came inside to eat).


    Beth: Thank you! As Alex says, “I iz cool! Aint I?”


    Ricardo: No, you hadn’t told me about the relationship between your Synagogue and the UCC congregation across the street. I can easily understand it. The United Church of Christ has had a long and involved relationship with Judaism, especially Reform Judaism. In 1985 my seminary was one of the hosts of the National Conference of Christians and Jews (now called the National Conference for Community and Justice) meeting in St. Louis. The following year I represented my seminary at the meeting held in Baltimore.

    My seminary, Eden in St. Louis, has always had at least a part-time rabbi on the faculty. Through my seminary I had the unsurpassed opportunity to join in an informal, sit-down conversation with Elie Wiesel. That was an experience I shall never forget. I must again blog about some of these experiences soon!

    I truly wish that I did live close enough to join with you in those gatherings!

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  12. Little Sister: Thank you! I truly had fun responding to my old college chum and his rather skewed email.


    Thomas LB: I’ve considered that the problems I had were due to the size of my blog role. However, the other blogger who had the problem at the same time had just begun using that new Blogger blog roll widget. Now I rather think the problem had something to do with one or more of the site feeds to which the widget was linked. I am still using that widget on Alex’s blog, but I am not adding any new links to it.

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  13. I must visit all the other blogs, beginning with Alex.

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