Daily Archives: March 7, 2003

Friday Five

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1. What was the last song you heard?
Probably Bach’s Brandenberg Concerto #5. (Jon was playing it yesterday while he had cuddle time with Cullen.)

2. What were the last two movies you saw?
The Third Miracle and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (don’t ask… just don’t ask)

3. What were the last three things you purchased?
A French dictionary, The Jesus I Never Knew (Yancey), and A Grief Observed (Lewis)

4. What four things do you need to do this weekend?
Get my care application in to the hospital, get insurance stuff sorted out, finish the bulletins for I-Group worship week (next week!), and write a bunch of letters

5. Who are the last five people you talked to?
Jon, Eileen, Ellen, Richard, and my friend Jen

Talk About A Sacrificial Lamb of Sorts

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From Yahoo News (UK & Ireland):

A New Zealand woman has offered to be crucified by U.S. President George W. Bush if he pledges not to attack Iraq.

Mary Grierson said she had emailed the challenge to the White House and as an open letter to leading U.S. newspapers.

“Send your troops home and take me instead, on behalf of everyone in the world who does not want war and oppression,” she wrote.

But the deal has a catch — Bush would have to personally hammer in the nails.

“I don’t think he would have the courage to do it quite frankly, but that is the measure of a man,” she told Radio New Zealand.

“Can he follow through with this aim of creating more chaos in the world if he had to do it just to one person himself?”

It is not the first novel expression of protest in New Zealand against a looming U.S.-led war on Iraq.

Another woman spent 1,000 pounds last month on an anti-war newspaper advertisement directed at Bush in the hope it would be seen by the U.S. ambassador to New Zealand and passed on to Washington.

New Zealand, which refuses entry to its ports for foreign warships that are nuclear powered or carry nuclear weapons, opposes military action against Iraq unless it is backed by the United Nations.