8 June 2008
News and Comments - 06-08-08
Posted by Joy Bischoff under: What's News .
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Cameron Says:
8 June 2008 at 8:55 am.
I thought this was going to be about Hillary but I have no idea who this reporter is talking about.
Analysis: Clinton loosens up — finally
By BETH FOUHY, Associated Press Writer Sat Jun 7, 5:41 PM ET
WASHINGTON - This one’s for the girls.
That was Hillary Rodham Clinton’s message Saturday as she ended her presidential bid — a final, full-throated acknowledgment of what her pioneering quest had meant to women.
It was a moving, genuine and unexpected moment for Clinton, who spent most of her campaign playing down her gender as a way to reassure voters who might have trouble imagining a female commander in chief.
Speaking to supporters at the National Building Museum here, Clinton finally seemed to jettison the counsel she’d received over the course of her 17-month campaign to be safe and non-controversial — advice that made her seem steely and dull and robbed her of the magic her barrier-breaking campaign might otherwise have had.
Also gone was the careful, poll-tested message of “strength and experience” she had pressed throughout the campaign, which emphasized her toughness at the expense of her humanity and warmth.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080607/ap_on_el_pr/clinton_analysis
Cameron Says:
8 June 2008 at 9:30 am.
NH gay bishop, partner joined in civil union
CONCORD, N.H. - The first openly gay Episcopal bishop and his partner of 20 years have been united in a private civil union.
The Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson was legally joined to Mark Andrew, his partner of 20 years, in a civil ceremony Saturday, the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire announced.
Civil unions became legal in New Hampshire this year.
The union was performed five years to the day after New Hampshire Episcopalians elected him as their bishop.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080608/ap_on_re/gay_bishop_3;_ylt=Appq1uBaaUCcxK_kPCF5FRAE1vAI
Saddened Says:
8 June 2008 at 2:00 pm.
Cameron, that is funny. Sure doesn’t sound like Hillary does it?
Concerned American Says:
8 June 2008 at 2:04 pm.
Shrinking Flock Examines Its Identity
Churches Renamed to Escape Stigma Some Say ‘Baptist’ Carries
This article really has me concerned. I didn’t realize Christian congregations were shrinking so fast and I don’t like watering down the Word in order to get people in. Read the whole article to see what I mean:
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, June 8, 2008; Page C01
The Rev. Todd Thomason looked out at the nearly empty pews of his congregation at Baptist Temple Church last Sunday. He had preached long and hard about Abraham leaving all that he knew and setting out into an unknown future on nothing more than faith in God. He was hoping that, after the service, what was left of his flock would have the courage to do the same.
After 100 years, Baptist Temple, he feared, was dying. In its heyday in the 1950s, more than 900 members crammed into the sanctuary of the pretty white church in Alexandria that was built for 500. Now he was lucky to get 30. Perhaps the problem, he began to think, was the name itself.
“We’re probably the most progressive church in the city, but ‘Baptist Temple’ sounds weird, like it’s charismatic and conservative,” Thomason said. He worried that the word “Baptist” had become indelibly tied to the political religious right and that when combined with “Temple” it sounded like a fundamentalist “bring out the snakes” kind of place.
So after the service, Thomason would ask the remaining members of the church to save themselves, so to speak, and vote to change their name.
Benjamin Says:
8 June 2008 at 5:24 pm.
Since we have a lot of people from Nevada here I figured I would make sure you get your earthquake insurance.
Earthquake swarm picks up again in northern Nevada
By MARTIN GRIFFITH
RENO, Nev. (AP) - A months-long swarm of earthquakes picked up again Sunday as a string of minor temblors rattled Reno, causing downtown high-rises to sway and knocking items off walls and shelves.
There were no immediate reports of injuries or major property damage after about 20 minor quakes reported on the western edge of Reno over 12 hours ending about noon.
Magnitude-3.9 and 3.7 quakes struck within a couple minutes of each other shortly before 11 a.m. and were preceded by 3.2 and 3.0 quakes early Sunday, said researchers at the seismological laboratory at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Diane dePolo, a lab seismologist, said it was the strongest sequence of quakes in the past month and signaled a pickup in activity after a recent lull.
“We had a little pickup in activity on Tuesday and nothing significant until today,” dePolo said. “We are monitoring them, but we can’t say if it’ll get better or worse. There is no way to predict earthquakes.”
Seismologists had urged residents of northern Nevada’s largest city to prepare for a bigger event after a 4.7 quake on April 25, the strongest in a swarm that began Feb. 28.
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