GRAND RAPIDS -- With one remarkably swift vote, the Christian Reformed Church made history Saturday by electing a woman as vice president of its annual meeting.
I am convinced now - more than ever - that the CRC will stand firm on NOTHING. They have lost their way.
Next up...homosexuality.
On my first bike ride in a long, long while.
(Thanks to my son, Tom. Who adjusted my seat, put on my odemeter - with bad instructions and we're still not sure it works right. Who went with me to buy bikes for his sister and me - and took the wheels off so that they would both fit in
I'm anticipating not going for long, or very fast. I'm just going.
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My seat was about 3" too low (made me feel like I was riding a little kid's bike) and I decided to not take another bike ride until I have a padded seat. Which a quick trip to Walmart fixed.
Hills were harder than I remember - which might be because the seat was too low. Thanks again to Tom who is adjusting the seat.
Anyway...I rode for 23 minutes.
My week "officially" starts on Sunday. My day planner and my Weight Watchers eTools both begin on Sunday, so that's when I start my exercise week also.
I'm reading a couple of books
and 
There will be some conflicts.
Today I'm very on-track for eating and I walked 7019 steps in 63 minutes (I'm having to deal with shin splints again).
Goals for this week: bite it/write it; 28 activity points; update side bar on new template; flylady stuff. Post every day (and not just photos.) Adjust my bike helmet. Drink all my water.
MICHIGAN'S UNEMPLOYMENT MAKING NEWS...Governor Granholm said "in five years, you'll be blown away," but many Michigan families are being blown away now as the state reported the highest monthly jobless rate (8.5 percent) in 16 years. In addition, 23,000 more people have lost their jobs since October when Granholm and the Democrats pushed through the largest tax increase in state history.
Obama is promising more of the same for America.
If you like what Jennifer Granholm has done to Michigan, you'll love what Barack Obama will do to Michigan. It didn't work here...won't work nationally.
Indeed. Consider us blown away, Ms Granholm.
I've got a few new themes, but I have to "fix" the sidebar. Meaning add the blogrolls that I belong to, add sitemeter, etc.
I've also got a couple that I'll be able to add my own photo to...
like this one:
(I'll have to crop it to size...)
States at odds over gay marriage recognition:
When Massachusetts passed their law providing for legal, same-sex marriages, they also made provisions to NOT grant marriage licenses to out-of-state couples who live in states that have laws or constitutional amendments that ban same-sex marriage.
A gay couple residing in a state with a DOMA (defense of marriage act) could go to Massachusetts to get "married" and be denied.
This "helps" prevent a state with a DOMA from being forced to recognize a gay union from another state.
California has no such residency requirement.
A gay couple can come to California to get a state issued marriage certificate and then go home (wherever home is). Hetero couples do it all the time. I was at a wedding last week in the Las Vegas area (Valley of Fire - wonderful location) - the couple resides in California.
California may be the "Nevada" of gay marriage.
Scenario...a lesbian couple drive from Wisconsin to California to "get married". Driving home, in Kansas, they are in a car accident. Does the hospital in Kansas (a state that prohibits gay marriage) have to recognize the "rights" of the spouse that have a legal marriage in California?
Scenario: Does a divorce court in Michigan (that grants divorces to couples married in other states) have to grant a divorce to a gay couple married in Massachusetts or California - thus lending legitimacy to that union (how can one dissolve something that one does not accept as existing in the first place?)
Attorneys general from Alaska, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Michigan, Nebraska, South Carolina, South Dakota and Utah were so worried about potential legal complications they asked California to postpone marrying gay couples until after the November elections when voters will have a chance to overturn the court's ruling.
California declined.
He was a farmer and I grew up right next to his house.
