Hermann Hearsay: Sunday, November 7, 2010

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Website Format Changes

Published by Lois Lame, SSALRCYTMVDQJCP & Assistant Editor

Date: 11/7/2010
Post: 1,028

We are experimenting with a few website format changes:

inclusion of reciprocal website links displayed with each posting,
addition of weekly poll question,
addition of blog archives list to aid in locating old postings,
increase from 10 to 20 postings per page,
addition of list of most popular posts (previous 30 days),
addition of blog search function,
inclusion of pageview tracking display (previous 30 days), and
addition of Hermann Hearsay mascot 'Herkimer' to title header.

We hope that these changes will provide our readers a more positive experience on Hermann Hearsay.
Please give us your feedback regarding these changes. We will continue to adjust our format to better meet your needs.

Reciprocal links:
http://www.hermannmonews.blogspot.com/
http://www.hermannadvertisercourier.com/
http://www.time4pie.com/

Song Of The Day - Sunday, 11/7/2010

Published by Lois Lame, SSALRCYTMVDQJCP & Assistant Editor

Date: 11/7/2010
Post: 1,027

This great old hymn goes out to all of our readers on this the first Sunday in November . From the 'Titanic' soundtrack, here is "Nearer My God To Thee" .....

Line from the movie, 'Titanic' ... "Gentlemen, it has been an honor playing with you tonight."

Lyrics: Sarah F. Adams, 1805-1848

Music: Lowell Mason, 1792-1872

Lyrics:

Nearer, my God, to Thee, nearer to Thee!
E'en though it be a cross that raiseth me;
Still all my song would be nearer, my God, to Thee,
Nearer, my God, to Thee, nearer to Thee!

Though like the wanderer, the sun gone down,
Darkness be over me, my rest a stone;
Yet in my dreams I'd be nearer, my God, to Thee,
Nearer, my God, to Thee, nearer to Thee!

There let the way appear steps unto heav'n;
All that Thou sendest me in mercy giv'n;
Angels to beckon me nearer, my God, to Thee,
Nearer, my God, to Thee, nearer to Thee!

There with my waking thoughts bright with Thy praise,
Out of my stony griefs Bethel I'll raise;
So by my woes to be nearer, my God, to Thee,
Nearer, my God, to Thee, nearer to Thee!

Or if on joyful wing, cleaving the sky,
Sun, moon, and stars forgot, upwards I fly,
Still all my song shall be, nearer, my God, to Thee,
Nearer, my God, to Thee, nearer to Thee!

Bible Verse Of The Day - Sunday, 11/7/2010

Published by Lois Lame, SSALRCYTMVDQJCP & Assistant Editor

Date: 11/7/2010
Post: 1,026

Then Levi held a great banquet for Jesus at his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors and others were eating with them. But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law who belonged to their sect complained to his disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and ‘sinners’?” ~ Luke 5:29-30

Jesus was always making religious leaders uncomfortable. To eat at the house of Levi with his guest list was scandalous to the Pharisees, because tax collectors were regarded as traitors to the Jews. They were notorious for using their position for personal gain and were seen as informants to the Romans. Are we willing to eat with scandalous people? If all our friends are Christian, we miss the path of the Master. The safe and sanitized bubble of today’s Christianity needs more dinners with tax collectors and sinners. Who are the tax collectors and sinners of your neighborhood? Do they like you so much that they invite you over to their place for dinner? Does that make you nervous? Jesus life challenges the Pharisee in all of us. He wants to lead us forward and outward with the love of God that has overcome the world.

Today’s commentary by Dave Whitehead, Senior Pastor, GraceNYC.org

Editorial Comment: Stories which Hermann Hearsay will never cover!

Published by Jimmy Oldsun, NDRIRSRWRAFTC & Editor

Date: 11/7/2010
Post: 1,025

The editorial board here at Hermann Hearsay has a long-standing policy that there are certain stories which we will NEVER publish. Recent coverage of these types of stories by another online news agency has convinced us that we have been correct in our conservative editorial policy. We affirmed our policy in our Saturday morning policy meeting this past week.

We will NEVER EVER stoop so low as to cover any of the following sensational, voyeuristic and privacy invasive stories:

motor vehicle wrecks and collisions where mangled and blood-stained vehicles are photographed wrapped around a tree or wrapped around another vehicle while the occupant(s) has/have been transported to either the hospital or to the morgue,
single-family and multiple-family dwelling fires where homes and apartments are photographed or video-tape recorded while they are engulfed in flames and the occupants stand helplessly by shivering in the cold night air, and
funerals and grave site burial services where bereaved family members and friends are photographed or video-tape recorded during what should rightfully be their personal and private moments of overwhelming grief.

This type of "news coverage" is OBSCENE. We will NEVER seek to profit from the misery and personal suffering of other human beings. Yes, these types of stories might attract a few extra readers seeking to satisfy their morbid and voyeuristic curiosity, but we choose not to be in the business of publishing that kind of heartless, graphic and sensational material.

Additionally, we have taken the editorial position that we will take the moral high ground and denounce publishers who engage is such obscene "news reporting". Local news media organizations much self-regulate the entire industry. In this vein, we call upon CNL (CountyNewsLIVE.com) to cease and desist from this type of sensational and obscene reporting. If this type of reporting does not cease at CNL, we promise that we will take it upon ourselves to make them quite famous within the local community for their tasteless coverage of such stories.

For reference, here are the most recent examples of sensational reporting: