‘Zwinglians … were opposed to the radical’s assertion that any illiterate who felt so inspired could demand the right to occupy a pulpit. The exposition of the Word was serious business, to be undertaken by the successors of the Old Testament prophets, trained and competent – unlike some of the mitred crook-bearing bishops of the old Church’. — G.R. Potter
Exactly!
If you’ve ever gotten behind one of those trucks hauling chickens to slaughter you’ll know exactly what I mean when I say, they stink! But worse than that, now there’s evidence that they are spreading a trail of disease in their stankish wake.
A surprising finding by a team of researchers at The John Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore suggests that chicken trucks carrying live chickens from farms to slaughterhouses can be a source for disease-causing bacteria for the cars traveling behind them. Drivers and motorists stuck behind such a truck should “pass them quickly,” study authors say. Ana M. Rule, Ellen K. Silbergeld and Sean L. Evans collected air and surface samples from cars driving two to three car lengths behind the poultry trucks for a distance of 17 miles along the Delmarva peninsula. Air conditioners and fans were turned off, and the windows were all open. Broiler chickens are transported in open crates on the back of flatbed trucks with no effective barrier to prevent release of pathogens into the environment. The region connecting chicken farms in Maryland to a processing plant to the south in Accomac, Va. has one of the highest concentrations of broiler chickens per acre in the nation.
Consider yourselves warned.
Now showing on this channel, where we get the view from Crossley’s helmet cam. The view from Goodacre’s helmet cam from earlier is here.
There’s something very, very evil about wanting a ‘thing’ so much that one is willing to push and shove and trample to death to get it; whether that ‘thing’ be a tv at Wal-Mart or a better view of a football (soccer) game, or nearer to the stage at a rock concert (and note, you don’t see surging throngs at Classical music concerts because those of us who like that sort of music are civilized).
A man working for Wal-Mart was killed on Friday when a throng of shoppers surged into a Long Island, New York, store and physically broke down the doors, a police spokesman said. The 34-year-old man was at the entrance of the Valley Stream Walmart store just after it opened at 5 a.m. local time and was knocked to the ground, the police report said.
Would it be rude of me to say that these people behaved like animals, stampeding like a herd of wild buffalo. The theological dimension of this selfishness is best attributed to that one unchanging attribute of human character, Total Depravity, manifested this time, as it usually is, in the quest for selfish ends.
To stimulate the economy- so I’m off to be a good capitalist and purchase the annual extravagances called ‘Christmas presents’ for the wife and daughter (the only two for whom I buy anything. All other relative purchases are left to the wife since, I have to confess, if it were up to me, they’d get nothing!). (I can say that because none of them read here). (Thankfully). 
