RelentlesslyOptimistic

"Christ is present" action figures

You can purchase reminders of His presence: Christ engaged in a range of activities (check out his face on the bull-riding figurine) for only $30 each.

 

"Our Goal is to introduce the most thought-provoking, intriguing products that remind us of His eternal and enduring presence"

Via Nothing To Do With Arbroath

I was looking it up for a friend. Really.

What are the top ten most viewed pages in Conservapedia, the conservative answer to Wikipedia? Unless you've been following the news lately, you'll never guess.

 

Via For Your Entertainment

Veteran's Day

Lines for an Interment, Archibald MacLeish

Now it is fifteen years you have lain in the meadow:
The boards at your face have gone through: the earth is
Packed down and the sound of the rain is fainter:
The roots of the first grass are dead.

It's a long time to lie in the earth with your honor:
The world, Soldier, the world has been moving on.

The girls wouldn't look at you twice in the cloth cap:
Six years old they were when it happened:

It bores them even in books: "Soissons besieged!"
As for the gents, they have joined the American Legion:

Belts and a brass band and the ladies' auxiliaries:
The Californians march in the OD silk.

We are all acting again like civilized beings:
People mention it at tea ...

The Facts of Life we have learned are Economic:
You were deceived by the detonations of bombs:

You thought of courage and death when you thought of warfare.
Hadn't they taught you the fine words were unfortunate?

Now that we understand we judge without bias:
We feel of course for those who had to die:

Women have written us novels of great passion
Proving the useless death of the dead was a tragedy.

Nevertheless it is foolish to chew gall:
The foremost writers on both sides have apologized:

The Germans are back in the Midi with cropped hair:
The English are drinking the better beer in Bavaria.

You can rest now in the rain in the Belgian meadow --
Now that it's all explained and forgotten:
Now that the earth is hard and the wood rots:

Now you are dead ...

A foaming, yummy-smelling, moisturizing can of universal no-rinse cleansing goodness!

Remember when you were young, and your mom would see a stain or mark on your face and lick her finger repeatedly as she cleaned it off? Wasn't that great? Well modern marketing has now put that wonderful experience into a foaming, yummy-smelling, moisturizing can of universal no-rinse cleansing goodness.

Momspit - No Rinse Cleanser for Hands & Face comes in a 2 ounce ($9) and a 7 ounce ($18) size, and in a Fig/Green Tea, Lemon/White Tea and Unscented "Style/Color" (Is "Unscented" the style or the color?).

From Bits & Pieces

Beer after sport 'is good for the body'

Spanish researchers say  "Beer after sport is good for the body." According to a recent study, beer can help someone who is dehydrated retain liquid better than water and its carbohydrate content can help to replace lost calories.

Via Spluch. Image from Arbroath.

Maryland jurors smite Westboro Baptist Church, impose $11 million judgement

A day that is long overdue: Jurors award father nearly $11 million in suit against Phelpses.

A Maryland jury awarded $11 million to a father whose Marine son's funeral was picketed by Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church. One of the father's attorney's called the church a “71-member cult.” Church members claim that the verdict will "have no effect on their brand of proselytizing:"

"Monday the church faxed out fliers that they would picket the Friday funeral of a Norton, Kan., soldier killed in a Humvee rollover at Fort Riley.

The flier declared: “Thank God for Renegade Humvees” and “God Himself Has Now Become America’s Terrorist, Killing and Maiming American Troops … With Their Own War Toys.”"

For more about Phelps, look here and here.

Go Maryland!

Image from MSNBC