“A parent is worn to a frazzle by a stupid child; a nagging spouse is a leaky faucet.” – Proverbs 19:13 (The Message)

“Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.” – Ephesians 5:22-24 (KJV)

“If a woman living with her husband makes a vow or obligates herself by a pledge under oath and her husband hears about it but says nothing to her and does not forbid her, then all her vows or the pledges by which she obligated herself will stand. But if her husband nullifies them when he hears about them, then none of the vows or pledges that came from her lips will stand. Her husband has nullified them, and the LORD will release her. ” – Numbers 30:10-12 (TNIV)

“Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.” – Colossians 3:18 (KJV)

“I say to you: whoever dismisses (repudiates, divorces) his wife, except for unchastity, and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery. The disciples said to Him, If the case of a man with his wife is like this, it is neither profitable nor advisable to marry.” – Matthew 19:9-10 (AMP)

If you enjoyed these lovely Bible quotes about marriage, you too might also enjoy a beautiful retablo about marriage and forgiveness that is currently being offered on eBay. Oh, that or you could buy it and send it to me. Thanks in advance…

It supposedly translates roughly to:

“When in a rage, Enedina Romero fought with her husband and hit him in the head with a stick, she regretted making him bleed, and she prayed to San pascualito. Her husband healed quick and she gives thanks.”

“Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.” – Jeremiah 10:2-4 (KJV)

We are are a strange animal though and we do not heed His warnings. We even go a step further and buy artificial trees from Chinese sweat shops because evil trees made from the blood and tears of others apparently are better than a good old fashioned real heathen tree that our parents used to use.

I for one will not partake in this terrible ritual. I especially can’t do so now after reading about how an evil Christmas Tree caused a man to attack his elderly parents, using the tree as a weapon. The police report does not mention why 37 year-old Thomas Edward Lackie of Parrish Florida decided to attack his father with a 3′ tall artifical Christmas tree. We can only assume that since there was no reason given for the attack and that the attacker seems to deny or recall the attack then he must have been possessed by the evil spirits trapped inside the tree.

Most people don’t realize that Christmas trees are a relatively new heathen tradition (like Santa Claus, but that’s a whole other story) that started in 1851 in the state of Ohio. That’s not all that shocking considering Ohio is also the place where you can find supposed Christian clergy accused of sacrifcing 10 goats, spiking their heads on stakes and nailing their testicles to trees. That and my in-laws live in Ohio.

Ebay is running an insane Cyber Monday deal. They are randomly putting different items out each day for $1 Buy It Now and free shipping. Today’s items are 50 Nintendo Wii Systems, 40 Juicy Couture Day Dreamers bags, and 1 2009 C6 Corvette. A Wii for $1 is nice. A Corvette would be even better.

Bring your bot/scripts though. You will otherwise have a pretty slim chance of finding a deal. Many of the auctions are being sold with 0 page views and I’ve seen one that sold in 4 seconds from the time of listing. Not bad considering you have to load 1 page to see the auction listing, 1 page to see the auction page, and another page to confirm your bid. Even with no latency, you’d still be hard pressed to get 3 page loads with sensible clicks in 4 seconds.

If you’re feeling lucky, go to their DoorBusters page. There are still 7 more days worth of deals left.

The method they are listing their special deals is a little hectic. It’s basically the first person who can buy the item gets it, and you have to be lightning fast to win. This unfortunately has led to scammers running bogus auctions preying on people’s sense of urgency.

The most successful scammer of the day is a user named “Charles Fairchild” of Waynesville, Mo. Considering Waynesville is a town of 3500 people, it is probably the same Charles Fairchild as this guy on myspace (or that guy’s son Chuckie Jr). Anyways, long story short he listed a phony auction to catch people who were trying to jump these doorbuster deals. Two minutes and 4996 transactions later, his auction was stopped. I’m guessing many people paid immediately via paypal (multiple mention doing so in their feedback for him). It’s only a buck, but they are more upset about the heartbreak of thinking they won something.

Here is a list of successful bidders, notice how tiny the vertical scroll bar is… To get a count of bidders I had to copy and paste the list to Excel and let it count for me. Again, 4996 was the total. According to my caluclations that is about $440 worth of ebay fees (which ebay claims he may have to pay for listing a phony auctions).

Only 91 people left negative feedback. He had a +79 before the feedback started rolling in. A few people have accidently left positive feedbacks for him so at the time of typing this up he has a +2. Ebay removed the auction, which makes it so people can no longer leave feedback.

This is what his profile looked like less than 1 hour after collecting paypal pennies.