Unfreakingbelievable.

So, you’re a teacher, huh??? ;-)

Thanks, I’ll take any help I can get.

and if you go to glenwood springs, right outside of there, also take the hike to hanging rock. it’s a killer, but worth it…….we met an 87 yr old man that takes that hike every year……there is a beautiful mountain lake/pond at the top…….can’t get in it, but it cools you off just to look at it.

and the hot springs pool and sauna caves are a must,to do, too

and the town of redstone, there is a wonderful little bookstore, the three sisters, and a gallery that has former sen. ben nighthorse’s jewelry for sale there. wonderful paintings. outta my price range.

and there is a back road from glenwood springs to carbondale that is has wonderful vistas. but don’t take it without 4wheel drive unless the weather has been dry.

carbondale has an artist, if she’s still there, elizabeth robinson, who does incredible ceramic works. porcelain. she went to school here, i’ve purchased a lot of her work.

and rifle, north of there, is a little haven on the edge of civilization, at the eastern edge is a place that has little cabins, fly-fishing and a great giftshop—is in the middle of nowhere, the edge of the wilderness, and they were the one place that had sketchbooks for sale…..and hand hammered copper pots.

well, saw glenwood springs on the thread and couldn’t resist, really cool area.

Somewhere in the Middle East, Jesus Christ is strapped to a bench, his head wrapped in clingfilm. He furiously sucks against the plastic. A hole is pierced, but only so that a filthy rag can be stuffed back into his mouth. He is turned upside down and water slowly poured into the rag. The torturer whispers religious abuse. If you are God, save yourself you fucking idiot. Fighting to pull in oxygen through the increasingly saturated rag, his lungs start to fill up with water. Someone punches him in the stomach.

Perhaps this is how we ought to be re-telling the story of Christ’s passion.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comm…..ligion.usa

Morning.

Here’s what’s on Washington Journal this morning:

7:30 am – David Gushee, Author, “The Future of Faith in American Politics
The Public Witness of the Evangelical Center”

8:30 am – Toby Harnden, Daily Telegraph (London), Washington Bureau Chief & Marcelo Raimon, ANSA News Service, Latin American Correspondent

Chilean Envoy to U.N. Recounts Threats of Retaliation in Run-Up to Invasion

UNITED NATIONS — In the months leading up to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration threatened trade reprisals against friendly countries who withheld their support, spied on its allies, and pressed for the recall of U.N. envoys that resisted U.S. pressure to endorse the war, according to an upcoming book by a top Chilean diplomat.

The rough-and-tumble diplomatic strategy has generated lasting “bitterness” and “deep mistrust” in Washington’s relations with allies in Europe, Latin America and elsewhere, Heraldo Mu¿oz, Chile’s ambassador to the United Nations, writes in his book “A Solitary War: A Diplomat’s Chronicle of the Iraq War and Its Lessons,” set for publication next month.