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Re: this is supposed to replace sodahead right? is this a site about opinions?

I didn't know this was suposed to replace SodaHead.   It wasn't here before SH?  I don't know about getting called a troll after posting a different opinion.  I do think that happened on SH as well though with people then using their blocking feature before giving you a chance to reply!  LOL!  Guess some things never change!  

Re: Okay, let’s do this. If Jenner can be a woman, why can’t Dolezal be black ?: BY JAZZ SHAW

This is one of the craziest stories I think I have heard in a long time.  

Dave Grohl breaks his leg and still finishes concert.

The xray is published!  Ouch!
 http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/12/entertainment/foo-fighters-dave-grohl-broken-leg-sweden/

Re: Do you think it's time we forget about soda and enjoy what we have

I agree about the profile thing.  It was the users that made the site interesting and our profiles shouldn't be used.   It is time to move on.  :-)

Re: Well; have any of the Sodahead "rejects" shown up yet??

Someone said we were like refugees and I agree!  

PROF TELLS COLORADANS: CARRY GUNS ; 'I'm not going to be out there and not armed'

Residents of northern Colorado are being warned by a professor who is an expert in criminology to start carrying weapons.

"I'm not going to be out there and not armed," said Don Lindley, a longtime professor at Regis University who has a doctorate in criminology and has studied a number of serial killers.

He spoke with the Fort Collins Coloradoan as police in several jurisdictions investigated a series of shootings that may be the work of a serial killer.

On April 22, Cori Romero of Milliken was driving on Interstate 25 around 11 p.m. when she was shot through the neck. She survived. Then on May 18 Windsor resident John Jacoby, 47, was fatally shot while he was riding his bike only a few miles from where Romero was attacked. On June 3, Loveland resident Bill Connelle, 65, was shot and killed.

Lindley said he believes the attacker will try to strike again, and there's only one option: self-defense.

"I know a lot of citizens have this belief that just because they are a nice person that no one will hurt them. That's not true," he told the Fort Collins newspaper. "We are all very vulnerable. If we are going to be in charge of our own safety, we need to have our own tools to protect our safety. ... We need to be armed."

He cautioned people should do it right.

"If you look around and see all of these gun stores teaching firearms training, there is a reason for that," he said. 'Law enforcement does a hell of a job, but they can't protect everyone."

Investigators hunting for clues in the shootings include local police department representatives as well as the FBI, and the first two shootings already have been linked.

Lindley told the newspaper he expects the attacker is watching for the next chance. http://www.wnd.com/2015/06/prof-tells-coloradans-carry-guns/#sR1R6WZBoqT1UxTk.99

WASHINGTON FINDS NEW WAY TO RIP OFF VETERANS : By Michael Volpe

VETERANS RIPPED OFF BY FAKE RESEARCH PROJECT
$900,000 study's hired actors clogged VA health system with phony maladies

                                                                                                                                                                               A Veterans Administration researcher used actors and pressured veterans into participating in a "secret shopper"-style project, and now the House Veteran Affairs Committee is investigating how the agency spent $900,000 for the faked study.

The head of the study, Dr. Saul Weiner, professor of medicine, pediatrics and medical education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, admitted actors were hired to portray veterans, according to a letter from the committee chairman, Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Colo.

"The actors wore hidden microphones to capture the physician-patient interaction; feigned symptoms that took real appointment slots from veterans and tied up facility resources, such as lab tests, while health-care professionals sought answers to the actor's fake maladies," Coffman said.

The letter was directed to Carolyn Clancy, the interim under secretary for health at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

Wiener was approved a grant of at least $900,000 for a study "to improve staff and provide attention to veterans' individual circumstances and needs ... when assisting them or planning their care," according to the June 3 letter from Coffman.

The study, described as akin to a "secret shopper" program where people anonymously rate a business' service, was supposed to measure the effectiveness of the interaction between VA doctors and their patients during appointments. The goal was to make doctors' visits more patient-centered. Actors posing as patients presented themselves with made-up maladies and secretly recorded their interaction with the doctors for analysis.

In the letter, Coffman addressed many unusual and troubling aspects of the study.

For one thing, he reported, VA physicians "were forewarned that 'patients' would be 'wired' in order to capture the physician-patient dialogue."                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              And when veterans voiced concerns "about the misuse of resources," Weiner "purportedly began enlisting actual veterans from facility waiting rooms."

"According to complaints filed with the local union, some veterans did not want to participate, but in at least one instance, a veteran was badgered at least four times to do so."

Coffman said veterans "noted concerns that, if they did not participate, they would be 'flagged' as uncooperative and might be retaliated against by the facility."

"In these instances, those veterans who did participate alerted the physician by handwritten note that they were being recorded during the physician-patient interaction. Apparently, none of the veterans used in this study signed a consent form to participate."

The study was conducted in several hospitals in the Great Lakes Veterans Integrated Services Network, including the Hines VA Hospital, which has been engulfed in scandal, with one of the worst wait times in the country.

"Firstly, the improper use of VA resources for actors' fake maladies is beyond comprehension given VA's wait time scandal and spending scandal," the letter stated.

 http://www.wnd.com/2015/06/veterans-ripped-off-by-fake-research-project/#85VPAxiLwm2Cr3hI.99

Americans say they'd rather live in neighborhoods with guns: Jim Kouri

An overwhelming majority of American voters say they would rather live in a neighborhood where residents have the option of owning a gun than to live where nobody is allowed to be armed, a gun rights expert and advisor to police organizations said on Friday. He based his statement on a just-released national survey of likely U.S. voters.  http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/gun_control/americans_prefer_living_in_neighborhoods_with_guns

John Snyder, a former editor for the National Rifle Association (NRA) points to a Rasmussen national poll released on Friday reveals that mere 22 percent of likely voters say they would feel safer if they live in a community in which no one is allowed to own a gun. But whopping 68 percent of respondents say they would feel safer in a neighborhood where gun ownership by residents is allowed. Only 10 percent of those surveys said they are not sure. http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/about_us/methodology

The national survey was conducted on June 8-9, 2015 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. The fieldwork for all Rasmussen surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. http://www.pulseopinionresearch.com/ 

According to Snyder, who serves on the advisory boards of the National Association of Chiefs of Police and the American Federation of Police, the poll is more proof that gun-control activists and politicians such as President Barack Obama are outside of the mainstream with regard to support for the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment. "Americans would rather live with guns than without them," Snyder noted. "A national Rasmussen poll of likely voters shows this to be true by a three-to-one margin," he told the Law Enforcement Examiner.  https://gunpolicies.wordpress.com/                                                http://www.examiner.com/article/americans-say-they-d-rather-live-neighborhoods-with-guns-poll

Blame Game – Sunday Thought For The Day by Mychal Massie

The following was written for May 31, 2015, "Our Daily Bread" by Julie Ackerman Link:

I've been blamed for a lot of things, and rightly so. My sin, failure, and incompetence have caused grief, anxiety, and inconvenience for friends and family (and probably even for strangers). I've also been blamed for things that were not my fault, things I was powerless to change.

But I have stood on the other side of the fence hurling accusations at others. If they had just done something different, I tell myself, I would not be in the mess I'm in. Blame hurts. So whether guilty or not, we waste lots of time and mental energy trying to find someone else to carry it for us.

Jesus offers us a better way to deal with blame. Even though He was blameless, He took upon Himself the sin of the world and carried it away (John 1:29). We often refer to Jesus as the sacrificial lamb, but He was also the final scapegoat for everything that is wrong with the world (Lev. 16:10).

Once we acknowledge our sin and accept Christ's offer to take it away, we no longer have to carry the weight of our guilt. We can stop looking for someone to blame for what's wrong with us, and we can stop accepting blame from others trying to do the same.

Thanks to Jesus, we can stop playing the blame game.

Help me, Lord, to be honest when I am at fault and to confess that to You—instead of looking for someone else to blame. Thank You for taking my blame on Yourself.

Honesty about our sin brings forgiveness.

READ: Leviticus 16:5-22
5 And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel two kids of the goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering.

6 And Aaron shall offer his bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make an atonement for himself, and for his house.

7 And he shall take the two goats, and present them before the Lord at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

8 And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the Lord, and the other lot for the scapegoat.

9 And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the Lord's lot fell, and offer him for a sin offering.

10 But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat, shall be presented alive before the Lord, to make an atonement with him, and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.

11 And Aaron shall bring the bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and shall make an atonement for himself, and for his house, and shall kill the bullock of the sin offering which is for himself:

12 And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the Lord, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the vail:

13 And he shall put the incense upon the fire before the Lord, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is upon the testimony, that he die not:

14 And he shall take of the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy seat eastward; and before the mercy seat shall he sprinkle of the blood with his finger seven times.

15 Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the vail, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat:

16 And he shall make an atonement for the holy place, because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions in all their sins: and so shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation, that remaineth among them in the midst of their uncleanness.

17 And there shall be no man in the tabernacle of the congregation when he goeth in to make an atonement in the holy place, until he come out, and have made an atonement for himself, and for his household, and for all the congregation of Israel.

18 And he shall go out unto the altar that is before the Lord, and make an atonement for it; and shall take of the blood of the bullock, and of the blood of the goat, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about.

19 And he shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and hallow it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.

20 And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat:

21 And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:

22 And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness. http://mychal-massie.com/premium/blame-game-sunday-thought-for-the-day/

The Greatest Thing – Sunday Thought For The Day by Mychal Massie

The following was written for June 7, 2015, "Our Daily Bread" by Jennifer Benson Schuldt.

During a church service I spotted an infant several rows ahead. As the baby peeked over his father's shoulder, his eyes were wide with wonder as he looked at the members of the congregation. He grinned at some people, drooled, and chewed his chunky fingers, but never quite found his thumb. The pastor's words grew distant as my eyes kept sliding back to that sweet baby.

Distractions come in all shapes and sizes. For Martha, distraction took the form of cooking and cleaning—trying to serve Christ instead of listening to Him and talking with Him. Mary refused to be sidetracked. "Mary . . . sat at Jesus' feet and heard His word" (Luke 10:39). When Martha grumbled because Mary wasn't helping her, Jesus said, "Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her" (v. 42 niv).

Jesus' words remind us that our relationship with Him is more important than any of the good things that might temporarily capture our attention. It has been said that good things are the enemies of great things. For followers of Jesus, the greatest thing in this life is to know Him and to walk with Him.

What do you think Martha's distractions were? Was she wanting to be seen as a good host? Or was she jealous of her sister? What attitudes cause you not to make Jesus your top priority?

Teach me, Lord, to get to know You, for that's when I'll learn to love You more than anything.

INSIGHT:
The "certain village" mentioned in Luke 10:38 is Bethany, a small village on the eastern slopes of the Mount of Olives (Mark 11:1), about 2 miles from Jerusalem (John 11:18). It was home to three siblings, Martha, Mary, and Lazarus (Luke 10:38; John 11), and Jesus probably stayed at their home when He was in Jerusalem (Matt. 21:17; 26:6; Mark 11:11; 14:3; John 11:1; 12:1). Bethany was where Lazarus was raised from the dead (John 11) and where Simon the leper held a feast to honor Jesus (Mark 14:3). It is also where Mary anointed Jesus with an expensive perfume to prepare Him for His death (vv. 3-8). Jesus' ascension, it is believed, also took place in Bethany (Luke 24:50-52).

READ: Luke 10:38-42
38 Now it came to pass, as they went, that he entered into a certain village: and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house.

39 And she had a sister called Mary, which also sat at Jesus' feet, and heard his word.

40 But Martha was cumbered about much serving, and came to him, and said, Lord, dost thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone? bid her therefore that she help me.

41 And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things:

42 But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.             http://mychal-massie.com/premium/the-greatest-thing-sunday-thought-for-the-day/