There were more rules for teachers than for students, and those bureaucrats were awfully persnickety about you following those rules. Once when I opened my purse in the teachers' lounge, one of the other teachers saw my little pistol and just about had a fit.
"That's a gun!" she gasped.
"Barely," I said. "It's only a twenty-two."
As Coroner I must aver,
I thoroughly examined her,
and she's not only merely dead,
she's really most sincerely dead.
OKLAHOMA CITY -- The requirements of Oklahoma's new abortion law are drawing some emotional responses from patients, a clinic director said Wednesday, now that women must have an ultrasound and hear a detailed description of the fetus before the procedure can be done.
The law went into effect a day earlier, when the state Senate overrode Gov. Brad Henry's veto of that measure and one that prohibits pregnant women from seeking damages if physicians withhold information or provide inaccurate information about their pregnancy.
"It's been difficult for some of the patients," said Linda Meek, executive director of Reproductive Services of Tulsa. "We've had patients leave the ultrasound room in tears because of what they had to hear."
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The new statute requires the person performing the ultrasound to describe the dimensions of the fetus, whether arms, legs and internal organs are visible and whether there is cardiac activity. It also requires the doctor to turn a screen depicting the ultrasound images toward the woman to see them.
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Meek said requiring women to listen to a description can be traumatic, she said, especially for rape and incest victims and women with fetal abnormalities or whose pregnancy threatens their own life.
This little arachnid is busy rebuilding a web amongst some of my irises right now...
And this girl's face reminds me of Miley Cyrus (only prettier). We found this abandoned homesite with these awesome old beaters parked alongside... she wasn't wearing shoes because she prefers being barefoot, but there was some broken glass. Thankfully she managed to avoid being cut by any of it. It's fun to work with someone who's game enough to go along with my harebrained ideas.
Wisteria took over this tree a few blocks from my house. Just wow. It looks incredible right now, with all those gazillion purple flowers dangling from it.
Aren't they incredible?
The Vinca minor, or Common Periwinkle, is going nutso in the north part of the yard.
My purple irises have exploded all over the yard this year. Actually, everything floral has exploded in the past three weeks... seems like usually things are a little more spread apart, but this year everything has just gone nuclear instantly at the same time.
A little Lupinus texensis, anyone? Bluebonnets are huge favorites around this state.
Carolina Jessamine (Gelsemium sempervirens), one of my favorite viney fence-row covers.
Christ died for our sins, just as the Scriptures said. He was buried, and he was raised from the dead on the third day, just as the Scriptures said. He was seen by Peter and then by the Twelve. After that, he was seen by more than 500 of his followers at one time, most of whom are still alive, though some have died. Then he was seen by James and later by all the apostles. Last of all, as though I had been born at the wrong time, I also saw him. For I am the least of all the apostles. In fact, I’m not even worthy to be called an apostle after the way I persecuted God’s church.
But whatever I am now, it is all because God poured out his special favor on me—and not without results. For I have worked harder than any of the other apostles; yet it was not I but God who was working through me by his grace. So it makes no difference whether I preach or they preach, for we all preach the same message you have already believed.
But tell me this—since we preach that Christ rose from the dead, why are some of you saying there will be no resurrection of the dead? For if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised either. And if Christ has not been raised, then all our preaching is useless, and your faith is useless. And we apostles would all be lying about God—for we have said that God raised Christ from the grave. But that can’t be true if there is no resurrection of the dead. And if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised. And if Christ has not been raised, then your faith is useless and you are still guilty of your sins. In that case, all who have died believing in Christ are lost! And if our hope in Christ is only for this life, we are more to be pitied than anyone in the world.
But in fact, Christ has been raised from the dead. He is the first of a great harvest of all who have died.
So you see, just as death came into the world through a man, now the resurrection from the dead has begun through another man. Just as everyone dies because we all belong to Adam, everyone who belongs to Christ will be given new life. But there is an order to this resurrection: Christ was raised as the first of the harvest; then all who belong to Christ will be raised when he comes back.
