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Daily Good Stuff 214

Fridayyyyyyyy! November starts off with a bang. Very soon, changes to this blog will be made. So, take a picture. Bare with me in this now construction zone.

The wise does at once what the fool does at last. Baltasar Gracian

I write to you, dear children, because your sins have been forgiven on account of his name. 1 John 2:12
If ya don’t like spiders, you might wanna skip this image…
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Yikes. Where in the heck is that place!? Up next, a video. Now that Halloween is over, it’s time to move on. But, what if your kid still wants to wear the costume? Welp:
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One bright, beautiful Sunday morning, everyone in the tiny town of Johnstown got up early and went to the local church. Before the service started, the townspeople were sitting in their pews and talking about their lives, their families, etc.

Suddenly, the Devil himself appeared in front of the congregation. Everyone started screaming and running for the front entrance, trampling each other in a frantic effort to get away from evil  incarnate.

Soon everyone was evacuated from the church except for one elderly gentleman who sat calmly in his pew, not moving, seemingly oblivious to the fact that God’s ultimate enemy was in his presence.

Now this confused Satan a bit, so he walked up to the man and said, “Don’t you know who I am?”

The man replied, “Yep, sure do.”

Satan asked “Aren’t you afraid of me?”

“Nope, sure ain’t,” said the man.

Satan was a little perturbed at this and queried, “Why aren’t you afraid of me?”

The man calmly replied, “I been married to your sister for 48 years.”

Yup, just as I figured, there is some Halloween themed news. There was a drug bust. Four pounds of cocaine. Where was it? In a couple of pumpkins…in the airport…yeah.

Border agents found a spooky Halloween surprise Thursday in three pumpkins someone tried to smuggle through the Montreal airport, authorities said — about four pounds of suspected cocaine.

The pumpkins were hollowed out, filled with about 2 kilograms of white powder in bags and recapped, the Canada Border Services Agency said. They were being transported Thursday morning by a suspect authorities would identify only as a female traveler arriving at Montreal-Trudeau International Airport.

Take a look at the whole story if you want.

Boy, these are some of my favorite good news. A bus driver, while crossing a bridge, noticed a woman was ready to jump off and end it all. He pulls over, hops out, and talks the woman out of it. What’s better, the bus’ camera captured the whole thing. Awesome. Hit the link to see the video.

And that’s it for today. Thanks for stopping by.

-DALANEL

November: The Month of Lists and Changes

Sometimes, I make a month a themed month. Like, in July, it was a birthday theme for my birthday. Well, this month is the month of lists. Top ten lists, top five lists, and more types of lists. Also, lists from past years will come back. My plan is for every day of the month to post a list.

Some lists will be fun. Others will be personal. Some will be easy to make, and others will be hard.

But wait! There’s more!

November is a time for changes for DALANEL as well as for me. I’m probably going to give up on adding a group of bloggers here so the pages you see might change up a bit as I take this blog to new direction. I’ve already made a few changes if you’re a regular reader.

Understand that, through all of the changes, DALANEL will still be going for the same goal it’s had since August 2012: Bringing a positive spin on the world. There probably won’t be any new features; but current features might have some new stuff in it.

The changes aren’t going to be revolutionary. Most of it is behind the scenes tweaks and such that, collectively, will make the blog better.

You won’t see many personal stories from me this month. It’ll be featured posts and the lists. I will update you on my cantata progress if there’s anything big that happens. But, other than that, you won’t be hearing from me. It’s a chance to see if my own talking is driving people away. If there’s a spike in viewers, I know I need to be quiet. Still, I’ll be working on a new writing style. This style will be more close to how I talk in real life as I attempt to really connect my mind with my writing. As I’ve said before, I haven’t been able to translate my sense of humor into words on paper.

I may in fact take the blog down for a few hours in the middle of the night to play around with themes and colors. If I do decide to do that, I’ll let you know.

Just bare with me through these changes and I promise things will be better for it.

So that’s it.

-DALANEL

Daily Good Stuff 213: Halloween

Halloween. Now, let’s just start this off by saying I don’t celebrate this holiday. After doing research on it, I have determined that this is something I can’t honestly back. However, I love candy. Also, I still think today can be fun. For instance, my church used to have a party on the 31st called “Harvest Fest” where you dressed up as Bible characters and played games. There was a contest…a costume contest, that was done every year. The last year we ever did the Harvest Fest, I won the costume contest. I was Moses and I had these big tablets for the ten commandments. The kicker was that I was one of three Moses’ there so I when I won, I really won. On Friday, I hope there’s plenty of weird news of trick-or-treat incidents. Wouldn’t that be swell?

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Dante’s Opinion: Do you think Jesus was muscular?

Allen Iverson of the Philadelphia 76ers shooti...

Allen Iverson of the Philadelphia 76ers shooting a jumper (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

We got a good group of questions to look at today.

Our first one is from Warren:

Do you think Jesus was muscular? do you think jesus was muscular, he was a carpenter so he did manual labour and it would’ve been harder back then to do things. In artworks, they show him as skinny and frail, which I don’t believe our Saviour was.

Ya know, I never really thought about it. I mean, yeah I would imagine he was built. Although, all of these paintings we have really makes it hard to see him built. But yeah, he probably was.

One comes from I Love Emma Watson and Basketball:

When will the 76ers are going to have a retirement ceremony for Allen Iverson #3?

Ah, they just mentioned this, at least via Twitter. March 1st vs the Washington Wizards. I liked that date because Iverson had his career high in points vs the Wizards.

Last one is from whattup:

If you see a man with a beard, do you assume he wants one, or he is just too lazy to shave?

Hey now! Wait…yeah I have a beard although I don’t let it grow too long. I don’t think it can. Still, if I had to pick; I’d say I’m lazy. In general, I would say most men with beards wanted it.

So, that’s it.

-DALANEL

 

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Daily Good Stuff 212

How’s it going? I hope all is well. Let’s get to the stuff I know you came here for.

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? Robert H. Schuller

He who conceals his hatred has lying lips, and whoever spreads slander is a fool. Proverbs 10:18
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Man, I love Spider-Man.

Dante’s Opinion: Am I a deadbeat dad or not?

Well, today’s only question comes from Ronald.

Am I a deadbeat dad or not? Today was my sons first day a daycare. The mother of my child wanted me to pick up my son and her ( she doesnt have a car) to take them to the daycare which about 2 blocks away from her home. As I get my son into the car seat she says she has to go to his doctor to get his records. I had no gas to go there and was upset that she didnt tell me this ahead of time. I told her that I didnt have time for her games and she says she didnt care what I thought about the situtation. I proceeded to take my son out his car seat and gave him back to her. She screamed and yelled at me as she walked away. I drove off and turned back around to go pick them up but she didnt want to get in the car. So proceded to the daycare. As she came walking up to the place she was saying that Im a deadbeat dad for making her walk with our son. Mind you I have joint leagal and shared phycail custody of my son and pay child support. I see him 4 times a week. She doesnt have a job nor a car so I provide the transpotation.In your opionon am I a deadbeat dad?

P.S. Sorry for the spelling LOL

Spelling wasn’t that bad. Okay, so, I saw the question and was expecting this to be a tough topic. Instead, this doesn’t make sense. She seems to just be crying just to cry and doesn’t quite understand what a deadbeat dad is. It was wrong for you to drive off like that. Considering that the day care is within walking distance, it’s not so bad and she really could have walked.

Anyway, if she’s calling you a deadbeat for this particular situation, I gotta disagree with her here.

And that’s just my opinion!

-DALANEL