Lent 2012 – A time to grow and learn

by David B Baker on February 21, 2012 · 0 comments

In previous years I have observed the 46 days of Lent by giving up big things like Religion or Fear. Apparently my Lent post has turned into an annual event for some people as I was asked twice on Fat Tuesday where my Big Lent post was. Well here it is. For Lent, I am [...]

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Gay Mormons for Rick Santorum

by David B Baker on February 12, 2012 · 4 comments

*disclaimer. This post (and all my posts) are my own and in no way are the views of my employer. This week in DC was CPAC the conservative conference were 3 of the presidential candidates spoke to the far right wing of the party and where the keynote address was given by Governor Sarah Palin. [...]

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Reinventing the Wheel

I am an ENTJ. For those of you who are unfamiliar with the Briggs-Meyer personality test, this means that I am an Extrovert who perceives information iNtuitively, makes decisions based on Thinking (not feeling) and make decisions based on Judgments of those thoughts rather than felt perceptions. For more information this link should prove useful. [...]

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Christmas Letter

Apparently I haven’t blogged in awhile. I write things but hardly post them. Here is my Christmas letter that I wrote but also failed to send out. I do that sometimes with my writing. Last year, as I came home from my Christmas vacation I had some time on the plane to gather my thoughts. [...]

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An interesting turn of events

Homosexuality is receiving more attention across the world than ever before. Members of the media write or talk about homosexuality every day, reporting on its many activities. Many of the most prominent news outlets in the United States regularly discuss homosexuality or gays. These discussions extend across the globe as well. Homosexuality also attracts attention [...]

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A change of scenery and a change in me

When I was young I was a loner. I isolated myself from people and they did the same. In kindergarten I was mockingly called “hairy monkey” (if any of you who called me this are reading know that I have completely forgiven this). In school I only ever had 1 real friend at a time. [...]

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The End of an Era

I view myself as a romantic for many reasons. There is the traditional definition of a romantic who likes to use gallantry in his courtship with grand gestures to which I subscribe. There is also the romantic who longs for a time long since past. It is that of which I write now while flying [...]

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Baptisms for the Forgotten

Cyril Wilcox, Stanley Gilkey, Eugene Cummings, Ernest Weeks Roberts, Nathaniel Wolf, Edward Say, Keith Smerage, Kenneth Day, Joseph Lumbard, Harold Saxton, and Donald Clark. These are the names of students who are tied together by a simple thread. Each of these boys was tried and found guilty of either being or too closely associating with [...]

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What Manner of (Wo)men ought ye to be

So As many of you have heard, I was asked to give a talk in Sacrament meeting today on the Conference address of Elder Robbins from last general conference. Below is an audio recording of the talk as well as my prepared remarks. Notice the difference in the two and the ward’s reaction when they [...]

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PFC Bradley Manning

I have held off on commenting on Wikileaks and PFC Bradley Manning’s alleged involvement in some major leaks largely because, while i have followed the story closely, I had yet to see the entire chat log of the conversation between Manning and Adrian Lamo the person who turned him in. I have held off commenting [...]

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