Povey Prattle

Kudos to Lyndsay: a clerk at my local Sweetbay supermarket.  I like her a lot. On Thursday she was at her check-out.  I bought items which in total cost $13.23.  I tendered a $20 bill, and the register showed that my change would be $6.77 . Then I remembered that I had a quarter in my pocket. “Oh”, I said, “I’ve just remembered that I have a spare quarter, but it’s probably too late for that”. “No” said Lindsay, “I can do math” .   So I handed her the quarter and she gave me the amended change of $7.02.  She did all this in a blink of an eye. And “they” have said that shop clerks no longer know how to make change. Lyndsay proved “them ” wrong. Good for you Lyndsay. ====================================================== My blog on March 31st was all about the funeral service for Mary Ellen Smith, the wife of the Episcopal Bishop here in South West Florida, Dabney Smith. If you read that blog, you will have remembered that I was deeply moved...

S0 I had an itchy, and sometimes bleeding “growth” on my left shoulder. Off I went to my trusty dermatologist. Her nurse practitioner sliced off the growth, and sent it off to be biopsied. The biopsy revealed a Squamous cell skin cancer. So I will be back at my Dermatologist’s surgery next Thursday at which time she will “dig deeper” in an attempt to rid my body of this scourge. Squamous cell skin cancers are not inherently dangerous.  But they are not to be ignored. ================================== My dog Penne gets very excited when I offer her a ride in my car. In point of fact she “sings” when a car ride is in prospect. When we reach a new destination, Penne freaks out with excitement. She is all “nose sniffing and tail wagging” as we explore this new area. I allow her to reconnoitre this new area for a few minutes and then I say “let’s go back to Daddy’s car”. The odd thing is that she cannot recognise my car by sight or by smell.  She is ready to j...

Do you remember that in the early days of the administration of President Barack the “Tea Party” and others attacked him as: Either: A Marxist who would lead us into a socialistic totalitarian state Or:  A fascist/n-zi who would take away our freedoms (recall those Tea Party banners with the President’s picture photo-shopped to make him look like A..H-tler). I call this PHASE A of the opposition to the President. In recent days there have been two more “far right” critiques of President Obama. From Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama tells reporters the president should take responsibility for the Secret Service, GSA and energy company Solyndra scandals and insist on a government culture in which taxpayer dollars are not wasted. He said, "I don't  sense that this president has shown that kind of managerial leadership (April 19th) And this from  House Speaker John Boehner  (April 18th) who took on President Obama directly, criticizing the president for...

FROM   http://www.walesonline.co.uk COMMENTS please directly to the Archbishop of Wales  archbishop@churchinwales.org.uk   NOT TO ME The Archbishop of Wales has lent his support to gay marriage today, saying: “All life-long committed relationships deserved the welcome, pastoral care and support of the Church." In his presidential address to members of the Church in Wales’ Governing Body in Llandudno, Dr Barry Morgan said Christians "need to show how the Gospel of Jesus is good news for gay people". He said the church had to ask itself whether it would "protect and support pastorally, faithful, stable, lifelong relationships of whatever kind in order to encourage human values such as love and fidelity and recognise the need in Christian people for some public religious support for these". He said he was concerned about the welfare of gay people whom he feared could feel uncomfortable and unwelcome in churches over the coming months as Government prop...

FREE SPEECH and OUTRAGE 3 This three part series is about speech (however egregious) not about actions. ================================================================ A British Christian based group known as “Core Issues”  paid for some banner adverts on London 'buses, viz: The ads were in response to the gay rights group “Stonewall” which ran  banner ads on 'buses  with the words: “Some people are gay – get over it”. The “Core Issue” banners never ran.  London’s Mayor Boris Johnson intervened to ban their use on “his buses”.  He stated that London is a tolerant City   (ahem!) -  Evidently his own tolerance is limited.(Never mind, he is running for re-election). The reason given for the banning of the ads is rooted in the ministry of “Core Issues” about gay people.  Here is how they state it (from their website) “CORE is a non-profit Christian initiative seeking to support men and women with homosexual issues who voluntari...