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About Jen

Jen isn't quite sure when she lost her mind, but it is probably documented here on Meditatio. She blogs because the world needs her snark at all hours of the night... and she probably can't sleep anyway.

The White Rose Lives Again!

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Yahoo! News: Passenger sues over Arabic t-shirt

This event last year actually prompted me to *purchase* the shirt. (You can order here.)Â? I love the shirt — it actually fits me well and it’s a reminder not to be silent about the abuses that are perpetrated by the current administration.Â? I even wore the shirt to my local Veteran’s Day pancake supper last year… though under a sweatshirt as I live in a community where I might have been hung/drawn/quartered if people had seen it at that particular event.

Laeodicean as Usual

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Yahoo News: Lutherans to allow pastors in gay relationships

As usual, the ELCA fails to actually take a stand on this and instead issues a tepid ruling suggesting that practicing GLBT pastors not be punished.Â? I have a feeling that this will be all the rage in metro and some coastal synods and places like Montana will tell CWA where they can stick their decision.Â? (One of the reasons I love Montana: people aren’t afraid to stand up to the authorities.)

I also noticed that Yahoo! News took out the statements from the Lutheran CORE pastors who opposed it and also failed to mention that it was a margin of 107 votes in an assembly of 1000.Â? Way to be fair and balanced!

(For those who are going to lambast me for pointing out the margin of votes, let me explain something. For something like this to work, there needs to be an overwhelming margin — like 85%, not 55/45 like this vote was.Â? Something like this on a margin that slim is just going to cause schism, not change.)

I can also just imagine what’s going to happen in the Lutheran World Federation when this news hits the fan.

Churchwide Assembly 2007 Schtuff

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Ah… where two or three are gathered, there WILL be politics.

Bishop Hanson got re-elected as presiding bishop on the 2nd ballot.Â? (He was 2 votes short on the first.)Â? I’m not amused because he’s a revisionist idiot (IMHO) but he’s also head of the Lutheran World Federation at the moment which is going to keep him (for the moment) from doing anything too stupid as pissing off the remainder of the world’s Lutherans is *NOT* a good thing to do.

All the social justice things passed (not even an issue in this church).Â? The same-sex marriage stuff is being sent to the sexuality taskforce which I’m not sure is entirely good because it seems like the taskforce’s job is simply to spin the changing of the social statement into something pretty.Â? (Basically, it’s a 50/50 split in the church which means that there is going to be pain and suffering in 2009 for at least half of the church with whatever comes out.)

The most amusing memorial/resolution/amendment/whatever was the whole adopting of the “Book of Faith: Lutherans Read the Bible”.Â? For a denomination that claims sola Scriptura, this should not be all that surprising that we actually, like, READ the Bible and, like, APPLY it.

Argh. Bad Fire Season! No Cookie!

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I just cleaned part of my study and I’d like to take out the trash.Â? The problem: we have to burn our trash and it’s just a bit unsafe to burn ANYTHING at the moment given the fire weather conditions.

(For those who are wondering, we don’t have trash pick-up here so stuff in the barrels accumulates during the summer.Â? We also don’t have recycling so we take cans and stuff to Great Falls when we remember.)

I’d like to unclutter the upstairs but it’s just not working out…

Medicating the Monster

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Freya has this noxious hair medicine that she has to take for a few days and I’m thankful the vet gave us a syringe so I don’t have to touch it.Â? She spit most of it up on me yesterday at the vet so I was not looking forward to today.

Well… I closed off the door to the bedroom so that I wouldn’t have to get her out from under the bed and I then got the meds into the syringe.Â? (It’s this gooey brown gel that looks like beef-flavored toothpaste.)Â? I then cornered her and wrapped her in one of the catghans that my mother-in-law has made for my brats.Â? Having just her little fanged head sticking out, I discovered that if I shot the gel onto the roof of her mouth, she’d swallow it and not ooze it out the other side.Â? It took some work (gel + syringe = hard to eject) but she got all of it in.

Now if she’ll either vomit or expel the hairballs otherwise…