Kettle cash tempting to thieves

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Posted on Mon, Dec. 03, 2007
BY DIANA MOSKOVITZ

Yes, Virginia, there are grinches out there. And they steal from the
Salvation Army's red kettles.

One bell ringer told police she was robbed in Lighthouse Point last
month when she left her kettle for a few minutes to use the bathroom.

''That is the last thing the world needs right now,'' said Capt. Tom
Louden, area commander for the Salvation Army in Broward.

Such thefts are a perennial problem around the country for the
Salvation Army.

About 20,000 red kettles appear at storefronts nationwide every
holiday season, with volunteers ringing bells and collecting donations
for Army programs like shelters and Christmas meals. With that many
kettles, a few inevitably get robbed every year.

as in someone manipulating events such as causing an earthquake
here but not there, or causing famine in one continent but not
another, for whatever purpose this 'creator' entity thinks is
necessary.... and also having some sort of magnificent plan for a
kingdom that will be eternal with people's souls in it and other
souls being sent to eternal torment and torture with 'satan'....
then the answer is absolutely there IS NOT that kind of 'creator'.

octinomos

On Dec 2, 11:44 pm, "J Young" aol.com> wrote:

The Church has wrestled with a dozen major paradigm-shifts in its
history. The first had to do with accepting Gentiles. The Protestant
Reformation was built on the radical proposition that we are saved by
faith purely on the basis of God’s grace, and that we can trust ordinary
folks to read the Bible. Then there was slavery, charismatic renewal,
women in leadership... Conservative groups have recently wrestled with
issues like dancing, divorce, Sabbath/Sunday-behaviour, dress-codes, and
rock music.

And now the Big One: Homosexuality More...
http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/20558.htm

(Review: Anthony Venn-Brown's 'A Life of Unlearning: a Journey to Find
the Truth', 2nd edition, New Holland Publishers, 2007.)

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Centrist governments cover all the bases, and conservative politics has
begun to wither away.

The issue of the future, coming down on us now like a steam train, is of
course the environment, the double hammer blows of climate change and
peak oil. Energy, weather and human misery are the factors that will
define our lives for decades to come. You can cancel your newspaper,
those are the only four words you need to know.

So what will be the new polarity in future elections? It's the ecology,
stupid.

More... http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/20573.htm
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Shalom/Salaam/Pax! Rowland Croucher

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