I’m not in the habit of condemning or defending classes of people. We’re all sinners, especially the ones who blithely deny the possibility of sin, and so such generalities are bound to be wrong depending on who they are or aren’t applied to. That’s being said, I find Continue reading “Evangelical Hypocrisy and the Married Woman”
Inexperienced
We have choices, voters of America:
- An inexperienced white man with no track record for president
- An inexperienced white woman with a proven track record for vice president
Oh… I must have made a typo there, you’re thinking. He isn’t white, he’s black. No he isn’t. Does Continue reading “Inexperienced”
War & judgment
The title itself makes you want to skip this one, but– hold on a sec. This is actually about your financial future, how your government spends your tax dollars to educate children, whether your brother dies in the nuclear attack on the city where he lives and whether the Supreme Court becomes a tool of oppression for anyone who might be a moral conservative.
In this article, Noemie Emery makes the point that Iraq news is so good now that both McCain and Obama have a problem. For McCain, who staked his career on the success of the surge in 2007, it is that Continue reading “War & judgment”
Why Men Die before Women
This is one of those e-mails you get from somebody– my mother in this case. Just had to put up this picture. You wonder what the 
kid was thinking as he looked at the photographer. The caption under it in the note read: “It starts at a young age and men just get worse!”
You should see some of the other pictures… Continue reading “Why Men Die before Women”
Brutal Dictatorship in action…
Here is one man’s description of his anguish:
Before sunset on Monday, Mr. Yu walked along a river running past the eastern wall of the school compound. Peering over the wall, one could see piles of bricks and concrete all over the ground. He pointed out the few standing ruins of the main building. His daughters classroom had been on the fourth floor.
He said she had lived for two days after being buried alive, like some other students. She had even called out to him.
We could hear them under the rubble, he said. We passed them milk and water, but it was no use.
He smoked and stared at the debris.
If you are a parent, you should be tearing up right now…
Next month, as you watch the Olympics, remember what Mr. Yu has discovered about corruption in a dictatorship.
Democracy– the worst form of government on earth…
except for all the others.
Un-Freakin-Believable!
Go here, and watch this video commercial about the Apple App Store.
OK… did you do it? Did the video work?? [Send me a note if it didn’t, or post a comment with your e-mail– maybe I can help you fix it…]
ANYWAY- this is the most amazing commercial– I watched it once, it was so entertaining that I wanted to watch it over and over instead of going back to work. How many commercials do that for you?? Microsoft is … toast, unless they can learn to market and promote their products as effectively as this company. On top of that, the iPhone is simply the most amazing handheld computer I have ever seen ( …umm – it’s a phone as well. Almost forgot… :-0)
I think I want one. But I don’t want the dreaded Bellsouth (currently lurking behind a cloaking device deployed by AT&T) as my phone company.
Patience…
Weirder education
Some of our friends send their children to the University of Louisville. You may have heard of it; they won the Orange Bowl recently. It seems that the students there can also get top scholarship input on black drag queens… courtesy of my tax dollars.
SO here’s my problem with this. Although I find gay drag disgusting, and wonder why it needs to be studied at U of L, I also have to wonder where all this is going:
- Will there eventually be a School of Drag funded by taxpayers, where students learn to be drag queens (AIDs and STDs included)?
- How does promoting the gay lifestyle, which this definitely does, fit with the overall mandate of a publicly supported university?
- Is it my imagination, or is there a double standard here? No doubt riots would ensure should the KY Senate propose taxpayer funding of research on using 4D ultrasound machines to reduce abortions. After all, this could be easily justified as a means of increasing the native-born proportion of KY citizens, with all the benefits of lower education costs (no English as a 2nd language), increased tax base (gays can’t help us there) and a reduction of mental health issues among women.
- Finally, is it really true that a majority of KY taxpayers wish to spend their tax dollars this way? If so, why is there a KY constitutional provision which clearly limits the benefits and privileges of marriage to one actual man + one actual woman?
I am the father of a teenager
Windows Vista? This guy loves it…
Direct quote from here:
Darryl4207 2008-06-30 09:34:49 flag as inappropriate
I am a computer repair business owner and LOVE VISTA!!! I get calls all the time from customers to resolve the litany of compatibility issues and glitches with it … so I make big $$$$ from these calls. THANKS MICROSOFT!!!!!!
Umm…
There are definitely people out there who love Vista– they tend to have brand new hardware.
Fear and loathing on the seacoast
Recently there has been much made of an alleged “pregnancy pact” at a Gloucester, Mass. high school among a number of 16 and under students. The school nurse reported “high fives” when pregnancy tests came in positive, and great disappointment when they didn’t; the Time magazine reporter who broke the story says that a recent graduate confirmed the basis for the pact (if it actually existed– there is some dispute about this) by noting that, “…They’re so excited to finally have someone to love them unconditionally.”
Indeed. Unconditional love is a need we all have, and a baby does provide it, at least for awhile. Nevertheless, in the wider world, and specifically in the world of liberated women, there has been much Continue reading “Fear and loathing on the seacoast”
Are we ready?
My daughter is about to marry Agent Z.
Don’t ask… even Palestinian terrorists are afraid of this guy!
It all happens in August… for details, click here.
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