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Cracked the 6,000 mark today for pageviews. 8/27/10. Looking to surpass 7,000 within a matter of weeks.
Tue. night, 8/17/10: Just transmitted Issue 3 of the e-newsletter a couple of hours ago. So happy to have it in circulation. Getting lots of hits on the site right now. If you did not get a copy of the e-newsletter in your email inbox, you can find its contents by clicking here.
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8/9/10: Having a big day of traffic. So far have had 82 unique visitors, making more than 100 pageviews. Will hit the 5,000 mark for pageviews (for the life of this site, which is still well under a year old) probably sometime tonight. Working on final portions of forthcoming e-newsletter. Be sure to send your email address if you are not already a recipient. It's free and it's chock-full of good stuff. Send request to me at jfm@jessemullins.com. Thanks!!!!
Just posted a fresh article today titled Only in Texas (7/27/10).
I know I've had some e-newsletter subscribers dropping in on this page to see if I've circulated the third issue of the e-newsletter. Don't worry - The research/interviewing is done and I'm in the process of compiling the material.
The secular world is the whole world - with eternity backed out of it.
"Driving" on Google Street View. The other day, on the phone with my dad, I was telling him that he could see his home in Maysville, Okla., online if he went to "Google Maps." Not just a satellite view but a street view. He'd never heard of such a thing, and I showed him how to find it online, which he did. I was online simultaneously, seeing the same image. After we'd hung up, I rotated the view to look east down 2nd Street. I then advanced the view one click, which carried me about 50 or 100 feet to the intersection of the Second and Pecan - which is the corner he lives on. Then I turned north, to look up Pecan. Then I advanced the perspective one click, and again moved "forward," and I drew up to a point that I knew to be even with the east side of his house, though I was looking up a street, not facing a house. So I rotated the view 90 degrees to the left and looked at his side entrance and the carport behind. Then I wondered if I could "drive" around his block. So I rotated the view back to the roadway, and advanced to the next corner, made a left, advanced to the next corner, etc., etc., and got back to his front yard. Ha! Then, I wondered if I could "drive" myself about six blocks to downtown. I did! All of this took less than 5 minutes. Then I wondered if I could take Highway 19 (which cuts through downtown) out to the outskirts of town. Which I did. And I found myself "looking" at the hill out east of town. And then, "like stout Cortez, who with eagle eyes, stared at the Pacific," I wondered, with a wild surmise, if I could actually drive to the next town! The next town is Pauls Valley, 12 miles away. And I am here to tell you that it can be done. It took me, oh, about 20 minutes - not much more time than it would have taken me to actually drive the route, as I have driven it so many times in years past. While I was in Pauls Valley I got a milkshake at the drive-through at Braums. Okay, just kidding about that part. But I DID "drive" from one town to another. Wonder what road trip I should take next? :-)
I'm trying to be the last journalist in America to write about IPads and e-readers but I feel my resistance slipping.
Chesterton's full remark (most of which is cited above) is as follows: "Merely having an open mind is nothing; the object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid." He was right. Having an open mind is only a means to an end. Without that end, we open our minds for no worthwhile purpose. This site is for people with not just open minds but with inclinations to arrive at their own definite opinions, worldviews, philosophies, and even theologies. These are the real payoffs of having an open mind.
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In a world where the mere mention of God in a public setting or context can draw more concern and dismay than any number of profane messages, we must stop and ask ourselves what has happened to steer things so far down so many undesirable paths. Abraham Lincoln wrote, “It is announced in scripture, and proven by all history, that those nations are blessed whose God is the Lord.” Proven by all history. A nation that is not God-centered cannot but lose not just its morals but its intelligence. It’s already happening. The God of Abraham Lincoln was a God who did not bless by serendipitously dropping providential gifts into the laps of the blessed. He blessed by raising the intellect. This generation will decide. We can choose darkness or we can choose light. CLICK THE IMAGE ABOVE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE.
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First my own sayings. Then some of the greats'. I know better than to FOLLOW those acts! :-) |||| The only populations who inflict torture on members for “ratting” are prison inmates and schoolchildren. |||| Any gener- ation’s so-called generational values are nothing more than watered-down versions of their parents’, slowly getting cooked up into half-baked versions of their offspring’s. |||| To be called “spry.” Should it be taken as a compliment? |||| Have you ever noticed, in those situations when you really need to take a deep breath and let it out, how, after you’ve taken the deep breath and let it out, the thing that was bothering you is still there? |||| Today's romance-minded gal must kiss a lot of frogs before she finds her crazy coot. |||| CLICK IMAGE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE.
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When the time comes, this space will be given to socio-political themes. For starters, though, just a traipse through the heartland as I share "souvenirs" of a cowboy journalist… |||| Does the Lord love a cowboy? Well, we know this much: when His Son was born, herdsmen were the first folks He sought out to tell the good news. |||| Most every young fellow has looked into the mirror at one time or another and saw, or hoped he saw, a Western movie hero looking back at him. But what’s a guy to think when, some ways down the trail, he looks into the mirror and sees a sidekick looking back? |||| Does Congeniality outrank Cordiality on the Roll Call of Virtues? And if Consistency is a minor virtue, where does that put mere Punctuality? |||| First you eat it all up. Then you’re all eat up with it. |||| CLICK THE IMAGE ABOVE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE.