http://irregulartimes.com/diaries In a time of the spring, old paths are obscured and new growth begins. Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:36:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yesterday the House voted to grant federal employees four weeks of paid parental leave. If it becomes law, that means a baby born to one or more federal employees will have four weeks of extra attention, four weeks when their parent(s) will be able to get up in the night ... http://irregulartimes.com/diaries/2009/06/why-does-pete-sessions-hate-babies/ Dear Power of Pride,Thanks a lot for your great news and views for the Community. You seem to have a West Coast focus. But surprise, surprise, Southern is pretty good too. The faculty here is diverse and tolerant. Please let your readership know there’s no need to drive all the ... http://irregulartimes.com/diaries/2009/03/adventist-ninja-%e2%80%94-when-a-theology-student-goes-too-far/ "New jobless claims jump unexpectedly to 667,000" says the Associated Press. What about huge unemployment isn't expected? Who didn't expect this kind of massive increase in joblessness? Who's the idiot that still hasn't gotten the memo that the economy is falling apart? http://irregulartimes.com/diaries/2009/02/expected-unemployment/ Dear Power of Pride, We attend a large Adventist church in central California. Our pastor is a well-known media personality, who finds that running his ministry is not enough of a challenge. So he pastors a big church too. He's the most personable, entertaining preacher you could ever wish for. Just recently, he's ... http://irregulartimes.com/diaries/2009/02/adventist-lesbian-couple-looks-for-church-wedding/ Dear Power of Pride, REAL STORIES AND IN-DEPTH JOURNALISM This is just a public way of expressing our thanks to Union College, The Clocktower, and Savannah Bowers. The student body at Union College turns to The Clocktower when we need news and views about the tough issues of our day. Not that ... http://irregulartimes.com/diaries/2009/02/huge-marihuana-story-in-adventist-college-paper/ The Reuters headline reads: Wall Street bets on stimulus after job cuts and all of a sudden the worrying thought occurs to me: Are we rewarding job cuts? Is it that corporations are learning that, if they'll go on and cut enough jobs so that people believe in the reality of ... http://irregulartimes.com/diaries/2009/02/reward-job-cuts/ Everywhere I go tonight, I hear people talking about some kind of plan to "sue per bowl". Sue per bowl, sue per bowl, sue per bowl! Stop it already! I'm tired of hearing about your frivolous lawsuits! I don't care if your kitchenware is defective! ... http://irregulartimes.com/diaries/2009/02/sue-per-bowl/ U.S. Representative Phil Gingrey got up on the floor of the House of Representatives yesterday in order to praise the work of the National Association Management Group. The sensation I had when I read about the name of the NAMG was like how it feels to look at one of those ... http://irregulartimes.com/diaries/2009/01/managing-associations/ For a bit of perspective on the revelations from former NSA employee Russell Tice, which corroborate reports from a former AT&T employee about the scope of the National Security Agency's electronic surveillance of the American people, let's compare it to Watergate. The NSA spying program makes Watergate look like small potatoes. ... http://irregulartimes.com/diaries/2009/01/chester-arthur-nsa/ Is David Paterson's choice of Kirsten Gillibrand to succeed Hillary Clinton in the U.S Senate a choice for inaction? Given Gillibrand's enthusiasm for right wing legislation, we can only hope so. You might think that, with strong Democratic control over Congress and a new Democratic President, Representative Gillibrand would have ... http://irregulartimes.com/diaries/2009/01/do-nothing-gillibrand/