Comments by msfixit
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Posted on October 28 at 12:21 p.m.
Affluent neighborhood? Ha! That's the first time my neighborhood has ever been called affluent. Try working class with a few teachers and retail people thrown in. I know exactly where Nancy lives, and affluent doesn't describe any of us who live there.
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Posted on October 14 at 3:02 p.m.
Thank you, Penny. Cathedral is parochial, not private, and its existance predates the public schools in Natchez. As long as there is a Catholic community in Natchez, Cathedral, in some form, will survive.
Posted on October 9 at 2:20 p.m.
I agree about outsourcing jobs. We need to hire locals. However, I know for an absolute fact that this teacher is paying for 95% of the cost and going through the legal channels (unlike thousands illegally). This teacher is contributing to our country by paying state/federal/local taxes. How many Americans do you know that won't work and are getting welfare? The American Way is working and paying taxes. Also, believe it or not - special education teachers are a shortage and I am sure if there were enough "good" and certified teachers in this area, they would be hired in lieu of looking outside the community, however; each year local school districts find that filling special ed. positions with certified/qualified teachers is a nightmare.
Posted on October 3 at 11:04 a.m.
Thank you, sunkitty, for pointing out the origin of the Blessing of the Animals, which has been going on for centuries on the Feast of St. Francis. Francis believed that man was brother and sister to all creation and that all creation, including animals, were a reflection of the glory of God. Read his "Canticle of the Sun" for a poetic reflection on this. His attitude toward man's place can be summed up in the prayer which comes out of his tradition, which begins "Lord, make me an instrument of your peace". Gerard Manley Hopkins, the Jesuit poet of the late 19th century said the same thing:
THE WORLD is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Posted on September 25 at 9:22 a.m.
Ben, your column was cute and light hearted, but you may want to take Garry to a vet and get him checked out. I take it from the name he is a male (neutered?). Male cats, especially neutered males, are prone to kidney and bladder stones which can make them act the way you describe. I know this from my personal clowder of kitties.
Posted on September 11 at 10:32 a.m.
In reference to the Nosser murders, my husband was the investigator who broke the case. It happened over a $15 Jerricurl. What a waste!
In reference to the Farmer case, I second the motion that everyone who is engaged in commenting on the personal problems of the deceased (I did not know her) needs to put a sock in it. No one deserves to die like she did.
Posted on August 23 at 5:45 p.m.
One thing this article fails to mention is that the land north of Vidalia is also active farmland.
Posted on July 11 at 6:34 p.m.
John of Patmos was attempting to get a letter of encouragement smuggled out of a prison colony back to his people in Asia Minor. His basic message was "hang in there--the folks who are persecuting you now will get theirs in the end, but if you remain faithful you will have your reward." He was using coded imagery which would have been comprehensible to his community at home (most borrowed from Jewish apocalyptic writing), but would have been totally incomprehensible to his Roman captors and the censors. Can you think of a better way to get a message past the censors than to use a code which appears to be the ravings of a madman? The problem is that most modern readers have no clue about the apocalyptic literary form or about the events in Asia Minor surrounded the Persecution of Domitian, so they try to read contemporary events into work written for a specific purpose at a specific time in history. The basic message of "Keep the faith" remains applicable to modern Christians, but those who try to read more into Revelation than that run the risk of going off the deep end.
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Posted on November 2 at 1:21 p.m.
I know I had more kids come by than I have had in a number of years (since my kids and the ones who grew up in the neighborhood were small). I was glad to see them, too. They were all what I considered to be appropriate--no teens, all younger kids with parents supervising them.
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