Drudge simultaneously lambasts the health care bill for being too long and complex (”Pelosi’s biggest one yet! 1,990 pages…”) and for having a high money/word ratio (”$2.2M A Word), which is contradictory. A simpler/shorter bill will have a higher money/word ratio.Similar Posts: Carter, Obama on Race, ObamaCare [...]
I got the below email from Amazon this morning after having ordered a new International Kindle. They’re giving me a $20 refund because they decided to drop the price! This cements my status as a very loyal Amazon customer. I have an Amazon Prime membership, getting free Second [...]
I dreamed last night that Cuccinelli and Bolling lost and McDonnell squeaked by with just a single percent. Talk about bad dreams… Similar Posts: Election Results Quote of the Day Are Democrats Riding a National Wave? [...]
I chuckle every time I read something like the following paragraph in a WaPo editorial:
REPUBLICANS ARE upset that House Democratic leaders may try to get the D.C. voting rights bill passed by attaching it to the fiscal 2010 defense appropriations bill. They argue that it would be wrong to [...]
I had a fun Sunday afternoon helping some folks in need! Some missionaries from a hard-to-reach African country called Golden Rule’s 24/7 emergency hotline for help. They had been scheduled to return to the U.S. for furlough on 15 Oct, but their daughter in the U.S. is having pregnancy [...]
Excerpt from this month’s Newslines column in Sword and Trumpet:
Jimmy Carter stated that, “I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he’s African American.” Those who are strongly against a socialist health [...]
Please go vote for my comment so that we can get some free marketing from InfoGroup, a large US marketing company! All you need to do is two simple clicks! Please do it right now. I would love you forever if you did! Just click the little green [...]
I’m finally getting to posting pictures from Norman and Edith’s wedding. This was one of the most fun weddings I have ever shot. Norman and Edith used to be Amish and most of their family is still Amish. Thus, their wedding was the most delightful fusion of Amish and American [...]
All of the older set of cousins, minus Samuel, Maria, and Ronald who were inexplicably not present.
I have the coolest cousins one could ask for! I hadn’t seen all (though I had seen some) of my Mast cousins for over four years! This was a [...]
I had the privilege of having the Jerry Miller family as my first portrait (besides weddings) shoot. I enjoyed it immensely. I would also like to point out that the best photo of their family was at a spot chosen by their son Vernon. Kudos!
Definitely the best [...]
Below is a shot over Roman Stoltzfoos’ farm as the sun sets over the pond and the wedding of Hilda Stoltzfoos and Michael Smucker is in full swing in the big white tent, tables spread across the lawn, and the white pavilion of the wedding party.
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How interesting!
A veil-wearing (non-Mennonite, apparently) lady copied the audio from my YouTube video of the SMBI choir singing Days of Elijah, a song that some of the choir signed in sign language while performing, and signed (a paraphrase of) it in a more thorough and complete manner.
The really interesting [...]
Yet more Mexico pics…Similar Posts: Mexico – Deep Sea Fishing Youth Christmas Banquet 2008 Beautiful Kansas II Wendell & Michelle Center Youth Missions Trip to Mexico
[...]Pictures here. We’re having an awesome time!Similar Posts: Stunning pictures of Bhutan’s coronation of new King Bangladesh: A Photo Essay – Day 8 Mexico – Deep Sea Fishing The Eiffel of my Eye Youth [...]
This is a follow-up post to In Memory of Stephanie Wingard. Another related post is my post from 2007 about the forgiveness in the Nickel Mines Amish School Shooting.
Stephanie’s was a large funeral. Estimates ranged from 875 to 900+.
Those of us that had attended youth fellowship meetings were [...]
Stephanie Wingard died tonight (Sunday, 7/26) after a motorcycle accident. We spent this weekend (July 24-26) with her at Beachy youth fellowship meetings. Here are a few pictures my cousin Hannah took with my camera this weekend:
May God rest [...]
If you enjoy my (ever so occasional) posts (or if you’re just a kind-hearted soul), when you shop at Amazon, feel free to click the link on my sidebar that redirects to Amazon.com and gives me 4-6% commission when you buy through that link.Similar Posts: Adding [...]
It’s harvest time in Kansas. As I drive home in the dark, I see lots of lights moving out in the field. As I drive to work, it takes a bit longer because I often get stuck behind farm equipment, like this morning with the combine that was so wide [...]
As always, The Big Picture has stunning photos, this time from Iran.Similar Posts: Iranian Election, Aftermath Nice Photoblog: The Big Picture Stunning pictures of Bhutan’s coronation of new King Spectacular Wildfire Pictures from California [...]
This is the only picture I took at Wendell and Michelle’s wedding that turned out nicely enough to post.
There is a reason for that. I was merely a pinch hitter because Trina had to leave for the airport before the reception ended (we took more couple pictures after the reception). [...]
I’m sure you’re all aware of the violence in Iran following the disputed election. Here’s an incredible photo of an opposition protester that’s part of a big photo set on Flickr of lots of good pics from Iran:
Pray for the temporal and eternal peace of Persia!Similar [...]
My good buddies from By The Way quartet are fellow alumni of SMBI, as are Duane Horst and Malisa Peachy. While I was at SMBI, Duane and Malisa were on StuCo (Student Council) together. On choir tour, Duane wrote a song about Malisa entitled “Please Malisa Peachy” which was a [...]
I rendered and uploaded a few more of the SMBI Night of Music 2009 videos. Make sure you view them full-screen and hi-def. You’ll have to forgive the videography quality, especially of the first half of the program. I learned some very valuable videography lessons throughout the program and corrected [...]
Here’s my first engagement shoot. Heidi was along to direct the poses. She was, of course, invaluable.
I can’t wait to do their wedding!
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There’s a tremendous fare available right now from Washington D.C. to Bogota, Colombia for $400 round trip. For details, email me at hans at goldrule dot net or call me at 800-950-3273.Similar Posts: Special Deal from Kansas City or Chicago to San Jose, Costa Rica [...]
One of my friends, Gene, is co-worker to a Thai lady married to an American man. They live in Hutch and invited Gene for supper. Gene in turn invited all of us “Thailanders” (those who have lived in Thailand or are going to live in Thailand) plus a few random [...]
My buddy Ben whom I was hanging out with for the day and a Bethlehem taxi driver who rapidly became our buddy as well. The chicken and bread was excellent! My stomach is growling for it right now…
The Ibrahimi Mosque, or Mosque of Abraham, [...]
Several weekends ago, we went down to Macon, MS to hang out with all the wonderful people that were on last year’s Europe tour. All but one person came! We had a blast. Here’s a pic I managed to grab:
Twilight over Levi Lee’s catfish pond in Macon, [...]
The Church of the Nativity (Arabic: كنيسة المهد) in Bethlehem is one of the oldest continuously operating churches in the world. The structure is built over the cave that tradition marks as the birthplace of Christ, and it is considered sacred by followers of both Christianity and Islam (see [...]
One day while living in Jerusalem, I went with Ben, a British friend of mine who was taking a break from studying Arabic in Amman, to explore Bethlehem (and Hebron). We hopped in with a taxi driver who befriended us (and was delighted at my buddy’s excellent Arabic and my [...]
Here’s a video I took of South Korean Christians singing Leaning on the Everlasting Arms (in Korean) on Ben Yehuda Street in Jerusalem while I was living there:
Another YouTube’er also posted a (lower quality) vid of them singing.Similar Posts: Emerald Chorale - We Are Not [...]
Here’s the first of SMBI 2009 Night of Music.
There are two limitations. You need to go to the Vimeo site to view it in HD. Also I can only upload one HD video per week. If people want to donate $60 for me to get a Pro account to remove [...]
I was inspired to post the following quote, one of my favorite, from the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (mm) by a coworker’s IM tagline, “The answer is 42″:
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western spiral arm of the galaxy lies a [...]
When transferring (backing up) large files (whether many files, or simply large files) over the LAN, use an FTP server and client (FileZilla is excellent for both). Windows throws permission errors all the time and there’s nothing more frustrating than a 50 GB file transfer via Windows File Sharing [...]
On the way to the King’s Singers concert tonight, we stopped at the airport to pick up Willard Mast (from El Salvador), much to Andrea Mast’s (daughter) surprise. She had no idea he was coming. He was scheduled to come in at 9:30, but a thoughtful desk agent in Guatemala [...]
Here a news story about a family with whom I went to church while in Iraq:
ISTANBUL, November 17 (Compass Direct News) – In prison at the age of 14 for having fatally stabbed her uncle in northern Iraq, Asya Ahmad Muhammad’s early release on Nov. 10 thanks to a [...]
Yawning in the cold, pale Laos morning after an all-night bus ride.
The best restaurant in Pakse and its friendly proprietor
Indian food is the best in the world and this place [...]
It would probably be pertinent to note that this trip was mere days after I had gotten my first DSLR and the quality of the pictures are reflected in that fact.
The [...]
Kathy Hanks of the Hutchinson News has a great story that was above the fold on the front page of the Faith section about Golden Rule Travel:
Gift from aboveFamily-run agency that flies missionaries, others to exotic sites has local office.
By Kathy Hanks - The Hutchinson News - [...]
Minutes ago a US Airways flight crashed into the Hudson River off of Manhattan. Survivors were seen standing on the wings.
CBS managed to get it colossally and obviously wrong by calling the plane an Airbus 380. US Air doesn’t have any A380s, it’s waaay too small to [...]
If you are ever tempted to think that we travel agents at Golden Rule don’t earn the $20 ticketing fee we charge per ticket, think again. Try learning to do this: rm*ms c *vn skylink *bf 286.00 *tx 100.70 *tf 386.70 *cm6 *ttintl
Or even better, this: DL X/ATL DL GUA143.00TXMSOS3 [...]
I’m finally going to post some Laos pictures from over a year ago. About time, eh?
Bowing down to a monk, asking for a blessing
Long bus layover after an overnight bus ride = tired and sleepy
Craigly taking a [...]
I was reading the U.K. Daily Mail and recognized the following pictures. When I lived in Israel, I would take the bus through this checkpoint every couple of days:
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I’m going to start just sticking personal pics on Facebook. Here are banquet pictures.Similar Posts: Family SMBI Costa Rica Tour Day 20 More Costa Rica Pictures Justin´s Lemonade Story Happy Birthday, Benji! [update #2]
[...]WhitePages.com has an interesting feature that gives statistics on last names. The results for my four last names (the last names of my grandparents) were hardly surprising, but interesting nonetheless.
Mast:
There are 7,975 unique ‘Mast’ last names in the United States.
Mast is the # 3,079 ranked last name in the [...]
KFC is running a contest to decide the most original Christmas tradition. The online controllable Christmas lights by my buddy Alek who I’ve interacted with some in the past to help raise money for Celiac Disease Research is a finalist in the contest. Whoever wins the contest gets free [...]
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