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2010 Evidence Ministries Football Pool!

September 10, 2010 4:01 am / Leave a Comment /

Are you ready for some football? I created a football pool four years ago and invited family and friends to join. The winner gets a $10 gift certificate to Dairy Queen. I can taste that large Chocolate Extreme Blizzard now! Congratulations to Becky’s brother, Terry, for winning last year’s pool.

I invite you to sign up for the EM football pool and join in the fun. In order to join, you must register as a user at http://www.poolhost.com/ When registering, you will choose a personal username and password. Once you’ve entered PoolHost.com as a registered user, go to the ‘User Tools’ menu and choose ‘Join a Private Pool’. Click on the “Pro Football Pick’em” icon in the upper left corner and then you will be asked to enter the Pool’s Login Name and the Pool’s Password.

For the Pool’s Login Name type: EMfootballpool

For the Pool’s Password type: football

That’s it and then you’re in! The next time you login in to http://www.poolhost.com/, you can go to ‘My Pools’ and you’ll see all pools that you belong to. Clicking on a pool name will take you to that pool. You can switch to a different pool by going to ‘My Pools’ again at any time. To Register, click here: http://www.poolhost.com/index.asp?page=register.asp

Don’t worry about the fact that we’ve already had one game. Just be honest and tell me who you would have picked and I will enter it in for you before Sunday’s games.

***Edit***
Last Thursday’s game messed up week one so I am going to give everyone correct picks for the first week. It isn’t too late to join. Look at it this way, you’ve already started the pool with a perfect score!

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Red and Yellow Kill a Fellow…

May 3, 2010 1:52 pm / 1 Comment /

…red and black, friend of Jack. The title above is a well known mnemonic to help people remember the difference between a harmless king snake and the venomous coral snake. If red and black touch each other, the snake is a king snake. If the red and yellow stripes touch, the snake is a coral snake. As you can see from the stripes on the snake in this picture, this is the dangerous kind.

My neighbor found this snake in his yard in-between our two houses. He managed to kill it with a shovel. What makes me almost sick to my stomach is he thought that one of our kids could have happened upon this snake first. The good thing is coral snakes are not aggressive and will retreat if given the chance. The bad news is that they are highly venomous and are related to the mamba and cobra.

After my neighbor showed me the dead snake, I bagged it and put it in the refrigerator so that I could show our kids later on in the day. When Becky came home, I did not make it downstairs in time to warn her about our new little refrigerator resident. To her credit, she did not scream or freak out. She was glad I kept it and wanted to make sure that our kids could recognize one on sight and knew to stay away from it.
That is also the reason for this blog. I want you to know that, yes, coral snakes are alive and well in San Antonio. Please warn your kids about them, especially if they are outside in the mornings or evenings.

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Has He Really Been In Office For A Year?

January 21, 2010 9:17 pm / 2 Comments /

Barack Obama meets with the Queen of England. He asks her, “Your Majesty, how do you run such an efficient government? Are there any tips you can give to me?”

“Well,” says the Queen, “the most important thing is to surround yourself with intelligent people.”

Obama frowns “But how do I know the people around me are really intelligent?”

The Queen takes a sip of tea. “Oh, that’s easy. You just ask them to answer an intelligent riddle.” The Queen pushes a button on her intercom. “Please send Tony Blair in here, would you?”

Tony Blair walks into the room. “Yes, my Queen?”

The Queen smiles. “Answer me this, please, Tony. Your mother and father have a child. It is not your brother and it is not your sister. Who is it?”

Without pausing for a moment, Tony Blair answers, “That would be me.”

“Yes! Very good,” says the Queen.

Obama goes back home to ask Joe Biden, his vice president, the same question. “Joe. Answer this for me. Your mother and your father have a child. It’s not your brother and it’s not your sister. Who is it?”

“I’m not sure,” says Biden. “Let me get back to you on that one.” He goes to his advisors and asks every one, but none can give him an answer. Finally, he ends up in the men’s room and recognizes Colin Powell’s shoes in the next stall.

Biden asks Powell, “Colin! Can you answer this for me? Your mother and father have a child and it’s not your brother or your sister. Who is it?”

Colin Powell yells back, “That’s easy. It’s me!”

Biden smiles, and says, “Thanks!” Then, he goes back to speak with Obama.

“Say, I did some research and I have the answer to that riddle. It’s Colin Powell.”

Obama gets up, stomps over to Biden, and angrily yells into his face, “No, you idiot! It’s Tony Blair!”

Hat Tip to Xavier

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2009 Football Pool!

September 9, 2009 10:25 pm / Leave a Comment /

Are you ready for some football? I created a football pool three years ago and invited family and friends to join. The winner gets a $10 gift certificate to Dairy Queen. I can taste that large Chocolate Extreme Blizzard now!

I invite you to sign up for the EM football pool and join in the fun. In order to join, you must register as a user at http://www.poolhost.com/ When registering, you will choose a personal username and password. Once you’ve entered PoolHost.com as a registered user, go to the ‘User Tools’ menu and choose ‘Join a Private Pool’. Click on the “Pro Football Pick’em” icon in the upper left corner and then you will be asked to enter the Pool’s Login Name and the Pool’s Password.

For the Pool’s Login Name type: EMfootballpool

For the Pool’s Password type: football

That’s it and then you’re in! The next time you login in to http://www.poolhost.com/, you can go to ‘My Pools’ and you’ll see all pools that you belong to. Clicking on a pool name will take you to that pool. You can switch to a different pool by going to ‘My Pools’ again at any time. To Register, click here: http://www.poolhost.com/index.asp?page=register.asp

If you read this after tomorrow night’s game, don’t worry about it. Just be honest and tell me who you would have picked. I can enter it in for you after the deadline.

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Mormon Miracle Pageant 2009

June 22, 2009 10:08 pm / 1 Comment /

I am sitting in Bill McKeever’s kitchen and this is the FIRST chance I have had to update you on our 2009 mission trip at the Mormon Miracle Pageant in Manti, Utah. This has been a weird year as I will explain in a later report.

For now, I am going to take this opportunity to post a YouTube video I made while standing in front of the Oqiuirrh Mountain, Utah Mormon Temple. We had just finished taking our temple tour last Tuesday (the day we flew into Utah) when I had the idea for this Quick Question For Mormons.

Before the temple tour, we saw a video in which Jeffrey R. Holland, one of the twelve “Apostles” of the Mormon church, states something that I find to be incredibly offensive. I’ve seen this video before, but it was just as offensive this time around as when I first saw it. Here is my video.

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