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Flat panel televisions are taking over the market
2008-01-30 17:37:00 If you haven’t paid a visit to your favorite home electronics retailer lately, you just might be surprised what you’ll find over in the television section. Over the course of the last year or so the once ubiquitous “Tube TV” has been more or less replaced by flat panel models. In fact, that’s all you’ll ... More About: Technology , Market , Panel , Televisions , Taking
Wireless memory cards
2008-01-30 17:06:00 A few months ago a company by the name of Eye-Fi released an SD memory card that can transfer the image files it contains directly to a PC attached to a wireless network without removing the card from the camera. In fact, it can even transfer those files over the Internet to over a dozen ... More About: Technology , Wireless , Memory , Cards , Memory cards
Yet another unconscionable lawsuit
2008-01-29 16:48:00 Here’s the scenario: In 2004 a man was driving his Audi A8 through the La Rioja region of Spain at over 100 miles per hour (the speed limit was 55) when he struck and killed another man who was riding a bicycle. The ensuing investigation revealed that the cyclist was partially at fault for the accident ... More About: Lawsuit
?Seat belts?
2008-01-28 20:46:00 I absolutely refused to wear “safety belts” when I first started driving. After all, they were completely optional then, and as a strapping 16 year old I was invincible, completely immune to even the possibility of becoming involved in an auto accident. Then one by one I started hearing about people my age and younger who had lost ... More About: Seat , Belts
Why ?Talk Radio? is a bastion of conservatism
2008-01-23 22:29:00 Like it or not, it’s a proven fact that with the exception of the Fox News Channel and a relative handful of fair-minded newspapers and magazines, the majority of America’s print and broadcast news outlets report the news with a strong liberal bias, but talk radio is by and large a bastion of conservatism. Have you ever wondered ... More About: Radio , Talk Radio , Talk , Conservatism
Diane Keaton?s cursing on live TV
2008-01-22 16:35:00 By now you have probably heard about actress Diane Keaton ’s use of a variation of the “F” word on ABC’s “Good Morning America”. Keaton’s so-called slip-of-the-tongue is just the latest in a series of foul-mouthed appearances on live TV, and thanks to a June 2007 ruling by the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals it appears ... More About: Live , Diane Keaton , Cursing
Excitement over the unexpected death of a celebrity
2008-01-20 20:42:00 It seems like there is always some celebrity in the news whose personal life is completely out of control. Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Anna Nicole Smith and a long list of others ultimately lost their battles with themselves, ending up in a cemetery way too early and leaving their fans and critics alike just shaking ... More About: Celebrity , Death , Excitement , Excite
This tiny speck called earth
2008-01-19 18:28:00 Our planet is an amazing creation, an 8,000 mile wide ball of rocks, dirt, water and gases that is hurtling through space in perfect coordination with the rest of our solar system as it spins its way around the Milky Way galaxy. But as massive at it seems to us, the earth is but a ... More About: Earth , Tiny
My turn at catching a virus
2008-01-19 16:46:00 A couple of days ago I chronicled my latest battle with a computer virus, but right now I’m battling one of my own. And I sort of had a feeling that it was coming… On Thursday evening I dropped my granddaughter Olivia off at basketball practice, then returned 90 minutes later to pick her up. While I was ... More About: Virus , Turn
Those aggravating computer viruses
2008-01-18 04:43:00 Well, it has happened yet again. It seems like about once a month or so my work PC ends up catching a virus, a trojan horse, or some other piece of malware. Today it was a virus, and it was a particularly nasty one. First of all, it corrupted one of the most important Windows XP system files ... More About: Computer , Viruses , Pet Peeves
Ford cars now running Microsoft Windows
2008-01-16 15:58:00 How’s this for a scary thought? Several of Ford ’s 2009 model vehicles will be running Sync, a communications and entertainment software platform based largely upon Microsoft Windows CE technology. Yep, the two companies have indeed joined forces to bring the world of computer crashes and endless security holes onto the world’s highways. At least a couple ... More About: Cars , Running
The difference between believing in Jesus and being saved
2008-01-12 22:00:00 Having grown up under the sound of the gospel, I have always heard folks refer to those who have been saved as “Believers”, but are all believers actually saved? The surprising answer is no. After all, satan himself is a huge believer in Jesus as the Son of the Living God because he dealt with ... More About: Difference , Devotions , Diff
The accuracy of political polls
2008-01-10 17:30:00 You know, sometimes things just don’t turn out as expected. If you don’t believe me, just ask Barack Obama. All the polls taken right before last Tuesday’s Democratic Presidential Primary election in New Hampshire indicated that Mr. Obama would easily defeat top rival Hillary Clinton, perhaps even by a double-digit margin. What’s more, exit polls taken throughout the day right up ... More About: Political , Polls
?Country Roads?
2008-01-09 18:10:00 “Country roads, take me home To the place, I belong…” If you’re like me, there are probably a number of songs that were popular back when you were a child that have stuck in your mind through the years, always ready and waiting to spur a special memory or two every time you hear them on the ... More About: Roads
Politics, politics, politics?
2008-01-08 05:10:00 Well, the 2008 Presidential race is now in full swing, and as usual the field is a bit crowded in both major political parties. A couple of also-rans dropped out of the running on the Democratic side immediately following last Thursday’s Iowa Caucuses, and I also expect to see a “thinning of the herd” after the dust settles in New Hampshire ... More About: Politics , Presidential campaign
The Carter Family Fold
2008-01-06 20:55:00 At the foot of Clinch Mountain in the tiny southwestern Virginia community of Hiltons sits a rather plain looking wooden building. It sprawls out on a hillside, and if you were driving by and happened to miss the sign you would think it was a barn. But trust me, this amazing building is like no other ... More About: Family , Carter , Fold
Putting on the armour of God
2008-01-05 04:51:00 Ephesians 6:11-17 11 - Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12 - For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. 13 - Wherefore take ... More About: Putting , Devotions , Armour
Publishing the ?Picture of the Day?
2008-01-03 04:59:00 As regular visitors to RickRouse.com surely know by now, one of my favorite pastimes is picking up my camera and heading off somewhere to take some pictures. I’m not a professional photographer, but every once in a while I do manage to capture a pretty decent image, and when I do I usually end up ... More About: Picture , Publishing , Picture of the day
Litterbugs
2008-01-01 20:23:00 As I was taking Houdini for his morning walk, I couldn’t help but notice that the side of the road that borders our long field was littered with dozens of bottles, cans, fast-food containers and various other pieces of garbage. During the summertime I clean up the roadside at least once a week so that ... More About: Pet Peeves
Happy New Year!
2008-01-01 15:05:00 Happy new year everyone! I hope that 2008 turns out to be the best year ever for you and your loved ones, and I pray that God will continue to bless this great nation as He has for so many years now. Another year has come full circle, and now we begin another one with fresh hopes, dreams ... More About: New Year , Happy , Happy New Year , Year
Another year has just about come and gone?
2007-12-31 19:01:00 With the end of 2007 quickly drawing nigh, I find myself sitting here thinking about some of the things that have taken place in our world this year. Of course there were the usual natural disasters that always tend to dominate the news for a few days here and there, but by and large the hot ... More About: Year
The Great Commission
2007-12-30 18:17:00 Mark 16:15 - And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. After the Resurrection, Jesus didn’t ascend directly to Heaven. Instead, He walked upon the earth in his scarred, resurrected body for 40 days, and during that time He was seen by hundreds of people - proving once ... More About: God , Great , Commission , Devotions , Missi
satan?s never-ending ?chess game?
2007-12-29 18:08:00 1 Peter 5:8 - Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: In the Garden of Eden, Eve was easy prey for the devil. After all, she was completely naive because she had never encountered evil in any form before the serpent approached her. ... More About: Satan , Chess , Game , Ending , Devotions
The ?birth? of Jesus
2007-12-28 17:52:00 John 1:1-3 1 - In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 - The same was in the beginning with God. 3 - All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. Many people assume that Jesus ’ existence began with His ... More About: Birth , Devotions
Rebecca Pepin and ?Faces of Freedom?
2007-12-27 05:03:00 My neck of the woods is blessed to be the adopted home of a very special young lady. As a legal immigrant from her native Canada, Rebecca Pepin worked hard and did everything that was required of her in order to become a naturalized citizen of the United States, and on October 27, 2006 that ... More About: Freedom , Faces
Gun Control
More articles from this author:2007-12-27 01:05:00 There are a number of “hot button” issues that are virtually guaranteed to generate a heated debate every time they come up, and the one that baffles me the most is “gun control”. On one side you have those who believe that a civilized society should be a disarmed society, with only the police and members ... More About: Gun Control , Control 1, 2, 3 |
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