What's up Your Sleeve?

A. Unabashed Pacifist:

Call me an idealistic teenager, but I think war sucks.

B. Unabashed Christian:

Holy One,

I cannot abide lying and cynicism and denying accountability among political leaders.
Can you?
I tire of those who “serve” the people and leave public “service” with pockets full of money.
Don’t you?
I see little hope in the political system we’ve devised and the complacency of this “democracy.”
Do you?
Your dominion come on Earth as in heaven.
Amen

C. Un-quoting Jesus:

“Only seven more shopping days until Passover.”

[The season has arrived, but not for Him.]

D. Blog: Weird word – “finagle”

"Finagle" is apparently an alteration of an originally English dialectal verb "fainaigue" meaning either "renege [at cards, etc.]" or "shirk [work, etc.]". The origin of "fainaigue" is given as unknown by the big dictionaries. My own speculation is that it might have been originally "feign-ague" = "feign-illness" = "malinger". It is conceivable that the "feign" might have been "fain" = "willing" here, and/or that the "ague" might have been "ache", to the same effect (shirking one's obligations).

[From a post by DGW]

finagle

1926, Amer.Eng., possibly a variant of Eng. dial. fuinaigue "to cheat or renege" (at cards), of unknown origin.

[Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper]

Murphy's law is an adage in Western culture that broadly states that things will go wrong in any given situation, if you give them a chance. "If there's more than one possible outcome of a job or task, and one of those outcomes will result in disaster or an undesirable consequence, then somebody will do it that way." It is most often cited as "Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong" (or, alternately, "Whatever can go wrong will go wrong, and at the worst possible time, in the worst possible way" or, "Anything that can go wrong, will," or even, "If anything can go wrong, it will, and usually at the most inopportune moment"). The saying is sometimes referred to as Sod's law or Finagle’s law, which can also be rendered as "Anything that can go wrong, will—at the worst possible moment".
A lesser-known addendum to Murphy's Law is Flanagan's Precept, which categorically states that both Murphy and Finagle were incurable optimists.

[from the Wikipedia entry on Murphy’s law]