Puttering

Intelegent design is more important than men who love dogs.

2005-12-29T14:07:00.000-05:00

Dover and Out

"federal Judge John Jones III issued a ruling that should delight all Americans who care about science, about education--indeed, about the very values of reason and critical thinking that underlie our democracy."

I think he is having a hissy fit - this author. What is happening is not a protection of democracy - it is evidence that our public education system is Forclosed. We have to judge with law what is being "taught" as if religeon was some frightening malice that will instantly spell doom for the porn industry.

Incidentally I think that most of these people are just afraid that enought people will become religeous to make porn harder to get. I know there is little connection but still it makes for a better more interesting story than Public Education Stinks and no answer is in sight.

Ahhhh my sweeet Diego....

2005-12-28T12:17:00.000-05:00

PETA.org :: Havana Nights Star: ?Animals Need to Have Safe Sex, Too!?

Woooohoooo now this was not what I was expecting..

This man makes sense

2005-12-28T11:48:00.000-05:00

Kirkville - Why Haven't Online Newspapers Gotten it Right?

Even if he lives in France...

They do not explain how they reconcile thier faith

2005-12-22T14:44:00.000-05:00

At Christian colleges, science takes on faith in classroom

Faith is stronger a greater pull than reality at times. But the reality is always there and influences the faith. We were once non-existantant till God called us into being. You have to have faith in the reality and in the hope. There is so much we can distract ourselves with.

There is a message there is one Gospel one way. How we got here as a species is like wondering how the jug of milk got into the refrigerator. It is important to a point. The base part of our faith is that we were created as a race and that each one of us is individually created and did not exist before our conception.

Mulims will lie to you about stuff.

2005-12-20T14:44:00.000-05:00

America kidnapped me - Los Angeles Times

This is a winy crock. He is lying. I belive that with all my being. I have no respect for this man and for the story that he tells because there is nothing true or relevant about it. It is a large smoke screen designed to impugn our respect for life as Americans in a dirty and disgusting war which I do not want a part in but am forced to be because of the incapacity of the Arab/Islamic world to be genuine and humane.

Comparative Index to Islam : LYING: "Lying today

Imam Abu Hammid Ghazali says: 'Speaking is a means to achieve objectives. If a praiseworthy aim is attainable through both telling the truth and lying, it is unlawful to accomplish through lying because there is no need for it. When it is possible to achieve such an aim by lying but not by telling the truth, it is permissible to lie if attaining the goal is permissible.' (Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri, The Reliance of the Traveller, translated by Nuh Ha Mim Keller, amana publications, 1997, section r8.2, page 745)

Note that Al-Ghazali is one of the most famous and respected Muslim theologians of all time."

NYC Central Labor Council to screw the poor

2005-12-20T09:00:00.000-05:00

Bloomberg.com: Top Worldwide

The unions in NYC will be forceing lots of poor people to walk or wheel themselves to shops and to low wage jobs this week. The poor will be the only ones affected by this. The poor and needy and disabled will be the pawns in this selfish game between two rich groups. Bah who cares if it is Christmas lets screw the poor.

Polly writes a review for the DaVinci code

2005-12-19T12:22:00.000-05:00

Guardian Unlimited | Columnists | 'Narnia represents everything that is most hateful about religion'

"Of all the elements of Christianity, the most repugnant is the notion of the Christ who took our sins upon himself and sacrificed his body in agony to save our souls. Did we ask him to? Poor child Edmund, to blame for everything, must bear the full weight of a guilt only Christians know how to inflict, with a twisted knife to the heart.

Every one of those thorns, the nuns used to tell my mother, is hammered into Jesus's holy head every day that you don't eat your greens or say your prayers when you are told."

You have to know she has some old resentments she is nursing.

This is the best thing I have read this year

2005-12-19T09:44:00.000-05:00

By trashing the media, liberal bloggers only hurt themselves

This is one of the most astute, clear and completely insightful peices of literary criticism I have read all year. Franklin, Thanks.

I would like to say that that we are headed back to the time of the War between the States.

"In other words, they envision a universe that resembles the nineteenth-century partisan newspapers or the Fleet Street model, where writers and thinkers break from the illusion of "objectivity" and print the "truth."

Another good reason to home school

2005-12-19T09:11:00.000-05:00

The Post and Courier | Charleston.net | News | Charleston, SC

What is the difference between someones religeous view and someones political view. They are all tied together. Why would I want some teacher telling my children that it is ok to be Gay when it is not. Why would I want my children to be told some fairy tale about our our origens? God created us, that is enough to know. It is plain that we had a begining and we will have an end as a species the way we understand this will change over time as we learn more. There is no room for confusion especially when it comes to religeon.

Look at what happens when you use spell check

2005-12-15T17:05:00.000-05:00

Used to work fine till I upgraded to 1.5

Stacey's Painted into a Little Corner of the World:

2005-12-15T16:59:00.000-05:00

Stacey's Little Corner of the World: Female vs. Male

"I was just reading an article about men posting political opinions more than women and a variety of opinions for why. I agree with a lot of them until I read someone writing that Ann Coulter was intelligent. I think she gets hairbleach induced hallucinations and speaks in tongue, not the religious kind but the forked kind."

Stacey:

Now you messin with Ann Coulter.

Unfortunately you have painted your self into a corner by doing the very same thing you criticize.

I have no idea why people are not completely captivated by Ms. Coulter. She has way of being funny by saying things. That is usually a way that people are funny - often times.

Also you said hair bleach induced hallucinations - this is not funny especially to people who make their livliehoods from hair bleach. Like my dear friend Sally who was sitting in a support group just last Sunday night with a disembodied head in her lap. I thought I was having an hallucination but in reality it was only a Cosmotological learning tool.

Please in the future leave the trash talking to the people with proper qualifications.

My dorm room in College - University of Southern Mississippi - pre-Katrina

2005-12-15T16:20:00.000-05:00

The American Thinker

"On one occasion, the air conditioning had been turned down so far and the temperature was so cold in the room, that the barefooted detainee was shaking with cold. ..... On another occasion, the [air conditioner] had been turned off, making the temperature in the unventilated room well over 100 degrees. The detainee was almost unconscious on the floor, with a pile of hair next to him. He had apparently been literally pulling his hair out throughout the night. On another occasion, not only was the temperature unbearably hot, but extremely loud rap music was being played in the room, and had been since the day before, with the detainee chained hand and foot in the fetal position on the tile floor."

Holy Crap! I thought I was was in school in reality I was in Gitmo as a Terrorist. I always wondered how I escaped. Oh yeah... I have a degree now, what was it in?

Mary Jo, she is dead. God rest her soul.

2005-12-15T13:37:00.000-05:00

WHY CAN'T I GET ARRESTED? - Yahoo! News: "Mary Jo Kopechne"

Tax evation

2005-12-15T10:25:00.000-05:00

Oddly Enough News Article | Reuters.com

Great Writing about "educators"

2005-12-14T10:42:00.000-05:00

The liberal case for the Solomon Amendment:

"On one side you have an unfriendly law pushed by an old-fashioned jackass, God rest his soul, and on the other you have a group of educators marinating in self-righteousness. "

NEA: December Holidays

2005-12-14T09:13:00.000-05:00

NEA: December Holidays Uhhhhhhhh I think that this would be funnier if you take your dose of Medical Marijuana first. I wonder if it is ok to beat your wife or have an abortion during any of these "holidays"?

I for one think they forgot the flying spaghetti monster "pooped the planets" celebration that occurs during this time of year. It is celebrated by having a large Spagetti dinner folowed by a round of beatles tunes sung near a barrel fire. Gifts are exchanged for cash to buy more medical marijana.

Index of evil Corperations

2005-12-14T08:51:00.000-05:00

Quotes for CAT, CVX, CCE, ... - Yahoo! Finance

This is the daily index of evil.

AlterNet: The 14 Worst Corporate Evildoers

Thanks Gorndog Gorndog's blog

Delightful Spam

2005-12-13T09:55:00.000-05:00

Eto srochno! roared one of the escaping men, spinning around and panicked at the sight of the hissing, blinding flare. Skoryeye! shouted another, passing three companions and racing toward the open section of the fence. As the whirling searchlights continued their maniacal spinning, Bourne counted the seven figures as one by one they dashed away from the last car and passed through the opening, joining the excited crowds at the mouth of the tunnel. The eighth man did not appear; the high-ranking Spanish uniform was nowhere in sight. The Jackal was trapped! Now! Jason whipped out his last flare, yanked the release, and threw it with all his strength over the stream of rushing men and women at the guardhouse. Do it, Ben! he screamed in silence as he removed the next-to-last grenade from the pocket of his field jacket. Do it now!

Incompetent Design

2005-12-12T15:01:00.000-05:00

Seed: The Other I.D.

Hmmm. How about how a cat will try to get inside at the same time you are closing the door that is just stupid. Or why would a happily married man often turn to a web page view a picture of Ann Coulter - (the one which she is on the porch holding the rifle) and sigh.

Man beat down for silly email

2005-12-12T14:49:00.000-05:00

CNN.com - Anti-creationism professor: Resignation was forced - Dec 11, 2005

Please please do not bait the fundies - they will attack. He looks like he got a visit from PriceRiteBeatings.com. He got the special two for one black eyes.

By the way this would never happen to Ann Coulter.

Abortion is bad for you

2005-12-12T10:01:00.000-05:00

BBC NEWS | Health | Abortion 'leaves mental legacy'

However, a spokeswoman for the British Pregnancy Advisory Service - the UK's leading provider of abortion services - said most women weighed up the consequences fully before opting for an abortion.

"We don't see that many women for post-abortion counselling.

"We offer that service but women very rarely come back because they are able to cope with it by themselves."

In other words NARAL says "Just buck up b*$ch..."

Blicky says : Don't do it if you can't take the heat. Killing is a man's job....

The Truth hurts sometimes

2005-12-08T17:06:00.000-05:00

CNN.com - Ann Coulter to audience: You're stupider than I am - Dec 8, 2005

You know she is smarter than anyone in that audiance. Why why would anyone dispute that? CNN is a bunch of winy babies who need to be locked in a closet with something.

Upity Conservative Woman gives a little to the pansies

2005-12-08T11:14:00.000-05:00

courant.com | Hecklers Disrupt Coulter's Speech At UConn: "During the talk several students from various racial groups and of various sexual orientations spoke about how harsh words have wounded them."

Oh poor little babies. You need your pacifist-er to come and pat your burppies out. I think next week they should have some Islamist come to talk about how to properly beat your wife:

"However, in some cases a husband may use some light disciplinary action in order to correct the moral infraction of his wife, but this is only applicable in extreme cases and it should be resorted to if one is sure it would improve the situation. However, if there is a fear that it might worsen the relationship or may wreak havoc on him or the family, then he should avoid it completely. "

I bet they would be bending over for that guy. Oh please let your large ideas penetrate our useless minds.

Yeah Ms. Coulter is The most cool woman on the planet.

Reality sucks

2005-12-06T08:38:00.000-05:00

Young man makes life changing descision:

"In a follow-up statement to police, he wrote: 'I am extremely sad now, and I just want to go to bed,' he wrote. 'Please let me sleep in my own bed tonight.'"

All he wanted was to get some Holiday gifts. He got an idea and he went with it. Unfortunately it meant he will now be sleeping with a bunch of guys in a room with a bunch of other beds. He will have to learn about reality because it will be there in the morning.

Lions and Christians and Bears oh my!

2005-12-05T08:26:00.000-05:00

MercuryNews.com | 12/04/2005 | The heart of Narnia

Popular Mechanics - Worst-Case Scenarios: How To Foil An Alien Abduction

2005-12-01T11:52:00.000-05:00

I feel that this is important...

Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection: PriceRitePhoto: Abusive Bait and Switch Camera Store

2005-12-01T09:39:00.000-05:00

Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection: PriceRitePhoto: Abusive Bait and Switch Camera Store

Hello? Yeah let me talk to Steve, yeah Ill hold. (muffle muffle) Hey turn that crap down I'm on the frickin phone..

Yeah Stevo thank you for your order placed on PriceRiteBeatings.com I saw you have a problem with some queer out in San Francisco..;. huh, - Yeah I know I watch Oprah sometimes were not supposed to use that word, How do I know? He freakin lives in San Francisco and takes pictures of flowers and gophers kissing each other. Hey I did not call you up because I wanted to talk about human sexuality.

Sure - how many fractures? You want two black eyes - that is extra. Listen I know we quoted you that lowball price and that particular salesman has been re-educated - if you know what I mean. Uh huh Listen my people are real good they work out. You know they Rollerblade and listen to that trance music all the time. boompa boompa you know what I mean? Sure Sure

Listen you need to throw in some insurance in case he knows kung foo or some sh*t that would wreck the whole thing you know. I would still have to charge you full price even if he took out my ninja trained monkey boys.

What you want to send your own boys out there? What from New York they wouldn't be able to find the freakin ocean in that town.

What you want to cancel the order?

Well we have cancellation fee that we charge.

Bruce Willis comes out fighting for Iraq’s forgotten GI heroes - Sunday Times - Times Online

2005-11-28T09:34:00.000-05:00

Bruce Willis comes out fighting for Iraq’s forgotten GI heroes - Sunday Times - Times Online

Scatterbrained? Yes, I Need a Thought Bouncer

2005-11-25T22:10:00.000-05:00

Scatterbrained? You Need a Thought Bouncer

I am going to look into this. It may be the key to something.

Why IP owners should worry | Perspectives | CNET News.com

2005-11-24T11:10:00.000-05:00

Why IP owners should worry | Perspectives | CNET News.com

Woman fired for inappropriate behaviour in front of children

2005-11-23T11:58:00.000-05:00

CNN.com - Fired pregnant teacher sues Catholic school - Nov 22, 2005 Was she fired because she represented a failure or because she actually failed to live up to standards?

Richard Cohen has a sexual problem and he hates.. Hates Cheney

2005-11-22T15:25:00.000-05:00

Iraq and the 'L' Word: "Clinton was impeached for lying about sex, but nobody -- that's nobody -- in the entire Bush administration has been fired, not to mention impeached, for this shedding of American blood. Cheney, a man of ugly intolerance for dissent, should have been the first to go. His has been a miserable, dishonest performance -- which he continues to this day."

You can tell if he met Cheney in the restroom at the movie theater he would keep it to himself.. Whew, what a pants load. I wonder what he really thinks about Cheney?

Why I ask would he be doing something so very.. boring. I mean it is just so coool to hate Cheney these days you practicly have to sign somehing saying that before you can get an iPod. In fact if you still like Cheney you must be a dork or whatever they call dorks these days.

E.J. Dionne Jr. is a selfish man

2005-11-22T11:25:00.000-05:00

Bring Democracy to Congress:
"The current leadership in Congress simply refuses to revisit any of the tax cuts it has passed since President Bush took office. On the contrary, the leaders plan to push through $70 billion in tax cuts after Thanksgiving, including dividend and capital gains reductions that go overwhelmingly to the wealthiest Americans."

You know if our democracy fails it will be because people figured out how to vote themselves money from the treasury. If he really wants to pay more money for government then he can. There is a box he can check on his 1040ez. In the real world it is called shareware if you really like it pay for it -

I could care less if these wealthy people get to keep more money - hell they pay really for the whole government anyway. So what, it is their money... They get it it belongs to them.

The federal government needs less money not more less money. War would be better - we would have to have a really really good reason - like Isreal had already used up all its nukes or something so all we can do is really mess up a place rather than go and try to fancy pants.

It is like this .. If an intruder breaks into my house I am to poor to be able to purchase a Taser or even a real gun all I have is a shovel - that means if I catch someone in my house I have to beat them unconscious which takes more work and is harder on the intruder but I do not have to go to Wal-mart and spend 350 on a shotgun. We need to think more like this and less like someone with to much money and time on their hands...

And if E.J. Dionne Jr. wants to come by my house and take some of my money he can get a kiss from The Spade.

No. 1 or No. 2? This is the question.

2005-11-21T12:47:00.000-05:00

Splendid gift idea

Bob Baker former secratary of State tured stuffed animal dating show MC:
"No. 1 or No. 2? This is the question."

audience applause

BB - "Contestant No. 2 what is your favourite food item:"

C2 - “Uh Bob, Bran flakes with a few dried plums that would be about what I would most want on any given day…”

BB- "How about you No. 1?"

C1 -“Coffee, black, and a hell of a lot of it…. Uh can we get on with it I gotta go.”

BB -"Ha ha ha, a ham, that was funny no the correct answer is (wait for music to finsh) Basra is a southern province in Iraq currently under the control of the British Empire"

GM works

2005-11-21T09:46:00.000-05:00

New Scientist GM pea causes allergic damage in mice - Breaking News

This is an interesting story. Mostly because there is so much anti gm hype that real problems get chicken little-ed. I think it shows that scientists are doing all they can to prevent problems with gm crops and that any gm crops that eventually make it to market can be trusted.

I wish that someone would label their food non-organic. GM is food that is better for the environment because of less chemical pesticides and better yields. It is better for poor countries and real poor people in America - people not poor enough to be on food stamps - Organic is really just a vanity.

Washington Post posts a fluffy

2005-11-17T10:00:00.000-05:00

Ignoring the Facts:

"but it is even more deeply irresponsible to rewrite the history of how history was rewritten in the first place."

Ewwww What is that smell? It is the smell of indigestible news matter. Why say one thing when you can say the exact opposite with confusion? Help help me understand - oh I see we now have two versions of the facts - one supports the war the other makes the war unsupportable. What is the point?

I know As long as the caliphate is not created in the middle east we will have a better world.

As long as the caliphate is not created in North America I can have my topless Jennifer Anniston GQ.

The tinfoil hat has been replaced by a triangle of pink balls

2005-11-16T09:08:00.000-05:00

Now, normally, I would make some kind of comment about this but, since it is so close to the American Holiday Thanksgiving, I will not.

Home-School shooting

2005-11-15T09:25:00.000-05:00

"Kara Beth Borden"

this is actually the second act of violence in a homeschooling setting I know of... what a nightmare, especially for the the girl; she will have that on her heart forever, she let the evil into her house. What do you say? How do you get past that? Makes all my childhood traumas seem like bad trips to Disney World.

I can see how people may jump on this as a chance to say that Homeschooling needs to be regulated. But if this guy was at a public school what more could he have done? How many others may he have infected. We never really know if we have tomorrow..

While this seems to be rare - While I hate to second guess the dead I imagine that the warning signs were there. Kara was suddenly more withdrawn argumentative fearful worried about what she looked like a lot more. Things that are pretty normal for a teenager - but as a parent the intuition is most important if somebody seems creepy then they should not be in your life - period.

It is also important to keep a regular time like lunch every Tuesday - to spend with your teenage child and during that lunch you are like an CIA interrogator getting to know your child while using your superior age and training to get information and also imparting your ideology your worldview. We are not friends and facilitators to our children we are their protectors and teachers - we shape them and provide sanctuary. We are to be gatekeepers - to check the bags before they come in the house to monitor what they bring in through the computer or the phone. This is not a democracy but a benevolent dictatorship. You should not trust your children completely - it does them a disservice.

BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Saving journalism isn’t about saving jobs

2005-11-14T16:24:00.000-05:00

Why is this interesting?

Important news about your Prostate Gland.

2005-11-14T13:54:00.000-05:00

:

"Among a fringe community of paranoids, aluminum helmets serve as the protective measure of choice against invasive radio signals. We investigate the efficacy of three aluminum helmet designs on a sample group of four individuals."

Water is Evil

2005-11-14T13:08:00.000-05:00

help water is coming to get us. Oh God help us save us from the water. Help.... water. Oh my, help; please save us from water....

In keeping with todays theme of Conspiracy theories

2005-11-14T13:01:00.000-05:00

George W Bush and the 14 points of fascism - Project for the OLD American Century:

"The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Opposition to abortion is high, as is homophobia and anti-gay legislation and national policy."

I think I have reached into a dark hole and something squishy is found...

these people are nut jobs - if you know anything about the history of fascism you know we do not live in a fascist society. You know really if you go to school and then get out and read more books and get a chance to live life for a while then you read crap like this idiot's it just makes a smart man want to scratch. If anything this lump of misguided baboon flung is an indictment of the foe we fight in this current war.

Kerry is having trouble letting go

2005-11-14T11:56:00.000-05:00

Consortiumnews.com: "Kerry, too, appears to have weighed how he would look if he made accusations about possible hi-tech hijinks affecting the outcome of a presidential election. Pundits surely would have put him on the couch as a delusional conspiracy theorist"

He needs a rest. You know he really doesn't need to work any more.. He could just stay home and let somebody else be Senator.

Homeschool scholars - Concord Monitor Online - Concord, NH 03301

2005-11-09T09:16:00.000-05:00

Home-school scholars - Concord Monitor Online - Concord, NH 03301

This is a great idea, one I wish somebody would do here where I live. I have had this same idea for a long while and it figures prominantly in my Lottery fantasies... I used to go to hobby shops and comic book stores they have rooms for gaming and fan club meetings.

I would like to see building with rooms and a play ground. Or a farm out in the country something that would be a great place to learn and for local tutors to have a place outside of their homes to teach.

What really is awful about this is that the National Public School System could be doing something similar. But education is not the top priority for any government agency - it is political control.

Re-Segregating American Schools

2005-11-02T11:42:00.000-05:00

NEA: Jonathan Kozol extra

I am part of that - I run a segregated school... In my house - I am like any average taxpayer in that my dear wife the Superintendent of Education makes all the monetary and curriculum decisions I just come home and complain that dinner is not ready and sullenly clean the toilet or something... Home schooling is a lot of work for every one.

I am so glad I do not have to send my children to the National Public School System

Sulu always disappeared when they stopped at rest areas...

2005-10-31T09:35:00.000-05:00

Sulu's gay, what do bloggers say? | News.blog | CNET News.com

I think this is funny. There is so much attention given to people who think they are homosexual and then whine about it like it is some big problem. Well if it causes you problems....

It make me sad and upset to think that people are still dealing with the trauma of racism, that it is infecting our present. Why add something to that? Something like sexual behaviours on top of genuine problems related to race and religion and association. Why give people more reason to hate themselves? Why give people reasons to hate each other. Why even coddle that crap. This is what Takai wants for me to coddle his precious sexuality. Well he aint gettin any from me.

Saturday I was listening to a man speak about being Black and growing up in rural Alabama in the fifties. How much hate he had to work through - his own hatred for White people and the stuff he had to go through. But he changed... He expressed taking responsibility for the way he viewed White people He is no longer driven by his passions he is instead very compassionate.

Incidentally this guy was very old fashioned - he was complaining about women drivers on the road when he was driving his Cement truck, I mean he said the word "woman driver" then looked at a lady on the front row and said excepting you of course". I mean that was not very feminist like or nothin'. I swear I thought that he was not whining about being a Black man instead he was grateful that he was alive and living life on life's terms. Grateful that he had the freedom of association and speech that people White and Black had pushed for the civil rights outlined in the Constitution to be extended to all Americans.

I mean what really matters? That we are not putting people in internment camps and we are not segregating people into inferior conditions as a matter of law. That there is still great freedom to practice religion and to maintain relationships with family and associations. This is what really means something to me as an American

That people feel ashamed of themselves - do we really owe them anything? - I am sorry if you have a problem with the way people react to your behaviour I say get over yourself.

In short we need less whining and more compassion and taking responsibility for our sex lives.

J. Daniel Marshall probes. Turns out, he is an idiot. Yes, stupid.

2005-10-28T09:49:00.000-04:00

I thought I would return to the roots of this blog. It is essentially a trolling site. I have sent this fool an email to see what sort of idiocity he may return with.

Probing Question: Why do some people choose to homeschool their kids?:

Dear Professor:

I saw a quote from you:

"For these families to dismiss opportunities which can perhaps best be provided through the educational agency of school is a tragic loss which affects everyone who cares about civic America."

What are you? A Communist or somethin’? What the hell does that mean anyway why does anyone “need” the opportunities best provided through the educational agency of a school? Could you not say that same thing about the educational agency of a fishing trawler? Were you talking about Public Education or private – what about Jewish Community schools are they better or a Madrasa teaching human bomb making would you rather my child do that? What you are really saying is that people are best educated the way you want them to be…. You have no clue about what you are saying other than enjoying your pompous pin money they give you for saying those perverted things.

You can take “your” education and your civic America and shove it…. Leave the education to the people.

Sincerely,

Cottle-ing Condi

2005-10-27T09:17:00.000-04:00

The movement to nominate Condi for president

Cottle and Rush are on the same team. This reads like a Rush monologue. In fact I am thinking that she actually knows Rush and they talk. Dr. Rice is someone I really like because she seems to be an icon of reliability asurance and strength whether those are traits we desire as a culture in our President is debatable. Also, I like her because she often attends the Orthodox church.

Women with guns

2005-10-24T09:43:00.000-04:00

Iraqi women take up arms - World - insider.washingtontimes.com

Ann Coulter looks sort of wimpy next to Xena...

The end of the Enlightenment

2005-10-21T22:26:00.000-04:00

(Christianity vs. Islam) vs. (Fundamentalism vs. Rationality) || kuro5hin.org

I was thinking of this today – there is really no more atheism. There is a struggle over theology. You do not have to be a “Bible Believing Christian” to fall for the Intelligent Design argument. You do not have to be a humanist to accept and live in a context of a slow deliberate evolution to our existence followed by the inevitable extinction of our race. What we are marching toward and what is really inflaming this debate is the inevitable realization that our intelligence is not that special – we will create before to long intelligence that is more creative and intelligent than us and this is what will really create resentment against science and profound self worth problems for a lot of Nobel laureates.

Rather than look at the harm that religious fundamentalists will do lets look at what science that accepts our intelligence as a god will do for us. Better access to porn, really nice anti-wrinkle creams, alternate realities, medicine by statistic, dehumanization, genocide.

Killing off all the priests and imams has been tried before it did not work that well, however we do have a nice record of a whole scientific liberal open culture killed off and shackled by fundamentalism.

What is the fuss?

2005-10-20T10:45:00.000-04:00

Consortiumnews.com

there is some argument about the "conservative media" It is just one point of view that creates excitment and drives advertisment. This article is the Splenda(tm) of media criticism.

Read it - if you are "progressive" it will be meaningful I am sure but if you are crictical minded it will seem like an ad for juicer.

Kevin Sites is a porno king

2005-10-20T09:36:00.000-04:00

Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone From Yahoo! News: "We are professional journalists and will apply to our work the ethical code of conduct as outlined by the Society of Professional Journalists: http://www.spj.org/ethics_code.asp

1. To seek and report the truth.
2. To minimize harm.
3. To act independently.
4. To be accountable."

What a joke. He is not much better than any of the hundreds of guys who posted dead Iraqis in exchange for Porn....

Kevin Sites betrayed the Marine Corps - he cannot be embedded anymore in Iraq because he lost that privilege and he is to scared to go in alone....

The beginning of orthodox Culture

2005-10-13T15:45:00.000-04:00

TNR Online | The End of Gay Culture (1 of 3) (print)

What he is whining about is that American Culture has mediocritized sex, turned it into a brand of dish washing liquid for which there is any number of fragrances. Being Gay is just one more way people get what they want when they want it.

Gay Marriage turned politically legitimate may be what any orthodox Christian or Jew may need to form our own culture Ghettos. It is after all not incomprehensible to just accept the "marriage" I mean it is perfectly legal to have more than one wife in Saudi Arabia - You just think "there goes Ali Baba and his 40 wives" but in your church you know that you would never be forced to support the loving and caring arrangement of two men or two women in some fake version of Holy Matrimony.

It is hard to accept the coming changes - they will not make anyone that happy - but there is the very fact that not everyone has been illuminated or has the ability to subjugate their sexual wants to the will of God - or even to themselves for that matter. There is always compassion and hope. personally I believe that being Gay is just a cover, a wish, a whistle in the dark, to mask the fear of the complexity of our modern world. The overwhelming amount of choices and the profundity of the consequences of those choices and how they effect our psychology and sense of our selves makes us want to pretend there is no choice.

You know that is why when we are baptized we "put on Christ" take on the mind of Christ. It is more than freeing to feel your fake control of this world removed to be replaced with the very Creator and source of life.

"Teachers" complain about job requirements

2005-10-13T12:14:00.000-04:00

The State | 10/13/2005 | Teachers challenge new rules

"But they don’t see why they should. So they refuse to jump through the new teacher-quality hoops.

“We’re not doing it. It’s a matter of principle,” Stasney said.

When new laws are passed, lawyers don’t have to retake the bar exam, Carson said, and when new medicines hit the market, doctors don’t have to retake medical exams."

Well they should have doctors and lawyers and such...

iTunes video review

2005-10-12T21:29:00.000-04:00

one digital life » Blog Archive » iTunes video review Must find antidote........

Richard Rodriguez makes a fluffy

2005-10-11T23:35:00.000-04:00

Online NewsHour: Richard Rodriguez Essay: Desert Faith -- October 10, 2005

"As it has become fashionable for Americans to speak of their religious lives publicly, I confess mine. I go to Catholic Mass every Sunday. I am, you could say, a Christian.

But ever since Sept. 11, when havoc descended in the name of the desert God, I find my easiest companionship with the agnostic and the atheist. I'm Richard Rodriguez. "

Why does he waste his time? And why would this be on the TV?

The law needs to change so that We the People can have our recreation...

2005-10-11T11:29:00.000-04:00

Forest Service, bowing to court, embraces Scrooge - Nation/Politics - insider.washingtontimes.com:

"40 permits for family reunions and Boy Scout and Girl Scout activities. " All lost due to the cruelty of Earth Island no mention of this in thier Earth Island Institute: News Room Also there will be no Christmas tree this year - who needs Islam when you have environmentalists?

Teen in news for something other than purient behavior

2005-10-11T11:12:00.000-04:00

Daily Record - Local News - Randolph teen publishes her journey of faith

Rather than complain about hair color codes, this teen wrote a book - this is a great story about how God is important.

Katrina and Socialist Central Planning

2005-10-11T11:05:00.000-04:00

Katrina and Socialist Central Planning - Mises Institute

Why did FEMA and the Mayor of N.O. fail so badly?

"We might even say that they are in effect sub-normal in intelligence, because government officials stand outside of society, cut off from normal channels of information that the rest of us take for granted. They are isolated from markets and the regular pressures of life. They are not owners of what they control, and have no real stake in the value of their product. They are surrounded by some of the most peculiar people in the world, namely lifetime bureaucrats, power-mad politicians, and lobbyists on the make. This is their world and this is what they know."

good satire

2005-10-10T12:09:00.000-04:00

Welcome to the Hackocracy

This just makes me happy that GW treats our Federal Government with the same respect the Public Education croud treats our Children.

Stay at home moms are best

2005-10-10T09:10:00.000-04:00

The Observer | UK News | Official: babies do best with mother:

"Leach insisted her findings should not be interpreted as a demand that mothers stay at home. Instead, she described it is as supporting a demand for 'developmentally appropriate high quality childcare'."

I would insist that it should be interpreted that way. If you really care about your children and love them you will want what is absolutly the best for them. So to the extent that you are able you now have a list to go down. Do you have the money to stay home? Do you have enough life insurance so that your wife can stay at home with the kids if you die? As a single mom - can you aford a nanny - is Mom in that role? Having sex is complicated - it is best that it only be carried out by responsible trained persons.

Adult Oriented Smurfs

2005-10-10T08:37:00.000-04:00

UNICEF ad drops bomb on Smurfs - World - insider.washingtontimes.com: " Julie Lamoureux, account director at Publicis for the campaign, said the agency's original plans were toned down.
'We wanted something that was real war -- Smurfs losing arms, or a Smurf losing a head, but they said no.' "

I remember pretending this same thing in the 80s- my little sisters army of smurfs was no match for the combined forces of Luke skywalker and GiJoe

George Orwell Lakoff trys out newspeak

2005-10-07T18:32:00.000-04:00

George Lakoff tells how conservatives use language to dominate politics

George forgot that language has its own process.

Xtreme Wisdom

2005-10-05T09:27:00.000-04:00

"Faith and hope are not merely casual or theoretical matters. Faith requires a steadfast soul, while hope needs a firm will and an honest heart. How without grace can one readily believe in things unseen? How can a man have hope concerning the hidden things held in store unless through his own integrity he has gained some experience of the Lord's gifts? These gifts of grace are a gage of the blessings held in store, which they manifest as present realities. Faith and hope, then, require both virtue on our part and God's inspiration and help. Unless both are present we labour in vain."

St. Theognostos.

Icons grow on you

2005-10-05T08:58:00.000-04:00

BoilerStation - Purdue University News, Sports, and Information from the Journal and Courier.:

"'People are really astonished that I would have so many,' she said. 'They become very special when you live with them. I feel much closer to the faith of Christianity than I would have if I had not collected them.'"

Icons are more than art just like the scriptures are more than Ancient Lit. An Icon can focus spirtuality, it is a lense. If given more than a passing thought it will releive blindness.

What it means to be a Christian

2005-10-04T09:42:00.000-04:00

OCA - "Life in Christ" Articles:

"It is to allow the Holy Spirit to re-create us in the Divine Image, to lead us from a self-centered state of sinfulness, corruption and death to one of righteousness, peace and joy, as we dwell in eternal and intimate communion with the Lord of all things. "

You cannot say it better than this really... I had a problem with the cookies and Coke thing at first. I just had a hard time getting past that image - whenever I eat cookies and drink a Coke one makes the other less sweet and the cold Coke makes the chocolate not melt in your mouth anyway the explaination of who God is, is adequatly juxteposed against a disharmonus food situation.

there I have made mincemeat of another post...

Why is this not being covered by The State?

2005-10-03T09:42:00.000-04:00

Dateline Alabama Because The State and the SUC are together in bed.

This would work in South Carolina

2005-10-03T09:41:00.000-04:00

Burlington Free Press - Opinion

This would be perfect for South Carolina. The state has a record of small agencies working together to make a big difference. The idea of project managment being used to provide healthcare is great. I could really see this as a positive community involvment. After seeing how much people want to help each other it makes perfect sense

"Marshaling the resources of state and local government, foundations, pharmacists, hospitals, nurses, dentists, educators, community clinics, churches, and social service workers, the Buncombe County doctors created Project Access."

Democrats need to score on this one - but looks doubtful

2005-09-29T09:45:00.000-04:00

GOP Ignores Lessons of Democrats' Past Mistakes:

"In response to the criminal charges he now faces, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) has offered up the time-honored defense of Washington politicians: My enemies are out to get me."

What is different is that this is the truth. DeLay is at the center of a conspiracy to bring down the Republican party. Which the Republican party has to deal with and is dealing with it. Terry M. Neal is just upset that the story is not getting the all out attention he feels it needs. People are used to baseless charges and this is not any different.

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Media | An end to macho war reporting

2005-09-29T08:47:00.000-04:00

"And that is the great tragedy for war reporting now. We no longer know what is going on but we are pretending we do. Any decent reporter knows that reporting from Baghdad now does a disservice to the truth."

Maggie O'Kane has no clue. She is complaining about the wrong thing. Journalism is undergoing a rebirth the old style is going down and we are getting back to the way things were at the turn of the last century when news papers were interesting.

What is happening is that the real reporting is done by people with passion like Micheal Yon and any of the bloggers and reporters who still have the whatever insanity it is that makes them do the good they are doing while we do "real life" - the same stuff that the soldiers and wives and husbands of soldiers have.

Good reporting is just as important to the war effort as any support service - good reporting is also interesting. Which I guess is not what Richard Gizbert is any more - my guess is that he will be a regular on NPR soon.

Maggie O’Kane will continue with her current therapist wondering why things are so dull and she is still unsatisfied with her current relationship.

Isreal seems to be winning

2005-09-28T22:31:00.000-04:00

Fewest deaths this year since intifada began - This gives me hope that Iraq will soon settle down.

Christianity is somehow bad

2005-09-28T12:42:00.000-04:00

Yes, in this article Cross-National Correlations of Quantifiable Societal Health with Popular Religiosity and Secularism in the Prosperous Democracies: A First Look Gregory S. Paul does seem to place a belief in God right up there with Satan himself as a leading cause of sin.

I wonder what elese we could correlate?

What about hurricanes and social ills - we could say that the US has more tornados spawned by hurricanes because we go to church to much and are just too damn generous. The gods must just be wanting to test us, that is what it is, I am sure of it. This article is the very essence of superstition, no less. If belief in God is somehow shoehorned into a discussion of venereal disease and murder rates we are just worshiping a particular tree and afraid of witches.

He strains at trying to connect the two statements “disbelief in evolution” and “popular religiosity is socially advantageous” to the statement “America has more teen gonorrhea cases than Japan”. What about Saudi Arabia? Don’t they believe in Allah there, a perfectly acceptable higher power according the college that puts out the journal I bet they have a low incident of abortion there. The article is more about imposing hypocrisy than anything scientific – it has more to do with this article Guardian Unlimited | Science | Don't dumb me down than anything else.

Greg has muddled an idea. This is what he is really writing about:

People have religious beliefs that cause them to attempt to discredit some biological science, these same people believe that a religious society is the only good society and anything else will be burned with sulfurous flames of passions. The author wants these people to know that most people in America are Christian and believe in God but that America has more problems than some places where people report less that they believe in God and the Bible. Some places with homogenous populations and more secular government are actually doing better than in our extraordinarily diverse and vibrant culture. Abortion is a good thing for children. The Culture of Life is a misnomer and really just a code word for living in an absolute Hell because porn has been outlawed.

If you are a Christian you must be stupid and hateful. America is a nation of hypocrites because we spend loads of money on healthcare but it is legal to have a gun and lots of people kill each other and we have healthcare crisis’s all the time. Also we have hurricanes and these are bad as well

Able Danger explained

2005-09-27T13:59:00.000-04:00

This guy takes himself very seriously - we should too.

The State | 09/25/2005 | Strong mayor would draw interest of qualified, capable candidates

2005-09-27T10:14:00.000-04:00

Mike Dawson for mayor. That would be a good thing. Mike knows what he is doing and has buckets of credibility and whatever that is that means that you will do what you say you will - what is that word integrity- I do like Rickenmann if only because he seems to want to do more with less.

Intelligent design article

2005-09-27T09:51:00.000-04:00

The New Yorker: PRINTABLES

This is one of the ways the world was created... I think

The meaning of the numbers

2005-09-26T09:40:00.000-04:00

I am perfectly satisfied with this explaination. This would satisfy one of lifes most important mysteries. Where in the name of God's green earth have all those socks gone to? Obviously they are worn by the evil twin. The other is of course who drank the last bit of milk.

Important religeous matter

2005-09-22T15:28:00.000-04:00

OhmyNews International

The Bible never specifically mentions gravity being created so it is exempt from religeous dogma, I guess....

Why is this story being suppressed

2005-09-22T09:49:00.000-04:00

Did Army project identify Sept. 11 ringleader? | CNET News.com

I think it is interesting that C|net is one of the only places carrying this story.

Free lunch with Gov

2005-09-21T14:13:00.000-04:00

South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford

This would be great if I could ride down to Aiken by 9am. this is a good day to miss church because there is a liturgy at the Saints Mary and Martha, Orthodox Monastery in Wagner on the Saturday before. I think it sounds like a great idea because of this story FOXNews.com - Health - Inactivity Leads to Fat Buildup Deep Inside Belly I thought it was nice because if you can ride over 20 miles a week you can pretty much eat anything you want. I have actually noticed this myself I try to do a 5 mile ride three times a week with daily rides to work of a mile and a half – I also take my children out for rides as well. – it does not mean that I eat a box of little debbies and drink a two liter of Mountain dew afterwards – but I eat some nice cheesy stuff with some fried potato things from McDonnalds

Mini-Microsoft

2005-09-21T10:08:00.000-04:00

Mini-Microsoft
This is one compelling blog buddy....

Contempt is Lee Siegel

2005-09-15T16:10:00.000-04:00

The New Republic Online: Contempt This man needs to be spanked. He has the objurgate down without the manual labor of actually knowing what he is talking about. Lee is limpid emotionalism he practically lisps with cultural redecorations. George Bush won the election and he chose God's personal assistant to be Chief Justice. He makes Joe Biden look foolish and all Lee can say is that this quote:

But the appearance of humility actually concealed an arrogant contempt for the purpose of the hearings, as well as a disdain for those aspects of life that, unlike baseball games, require sincerity and conviction.

Just tells me that Lee has a problem with being made to look foolish. It may be that Lee lives in a big city and buys peperoni and has some kind of envy thing going on because he makes tiny ripples I mean tiny ripples.

Ms. Wood takes her ball and goes home miffed

2005-09-01T10:42:00.000-04:00

Official quits over 'morning-after' pill - Nation/Politics - insider.washingtontimes.com: " It was an unusual public show of discord for the FDA, and prompted lawmakers to call for congressional hearings into whether the nation's leading public health agency allowed politics to trump science in determining the fate of the morning-after pill, called Plan B. "

Since when does science play a large role in anything that has become political. Killing children is political no matter how vulnerable they are.

I always talked about this

2005-08-30T22:23:00.000-04:00

Hurricanes & Tropical Storms on Yahoo! News Photos

We joked about this every time we visited. It was almost like we were trying to ward off this storm. My Grandmother moved from Biloxi in 2002 to Tallahassee She was born and raised in Bay St. Louis I heard but not confirmed that her house that we weathered Camille in was flooded and damaged.

There is no cultural memory of this kind of destruction which is stupid. My dates are not correct but think about the major destructive Hurricanes. 1947, 1968, 2005 every 25 years or so some huge hurricane comes in and devastates. It is amazing – Camille was a major event that loomed over my first 10 years – the boats in the woods, - the slabs near the beach with tile the piles of bricks. The concrete piles in vacant beach front lots. The tales my Grandmother told about the survivors – incredible that all this is surpassed.

I did a history report on the 47 hurricane to get my BA in history slot machines were on the streets in that story as well.

Finally they will finsh the trail

2005-08-25T16:42:00.000-04:00

The State | 08/25/2005 | Pact between USC, Guignards bodes well for Midlands

I know this will make cruizing more difficult.

2005-08-24T11:01:00.000-04:00

This is a cartoon from Al Medina press. This must be the Ted Rall of the Arab world

The new Nazis

2005-08-24T09:00:00.000-04:00

This is a cartoon from Al Medina press. This must be the Ted Rall of the Arab world

مؤسسة المدينة - جريدة المدينة اليومية

Michael Graham fired up again

2005-08-23T12:27:00.000-04:00

FOXNews.com - U.S. & World - D.C. Radio Host Fired for Anti-Islam Remarks

I met him before, he and I have a daughter the same age and we met a Hanukkah play at the first synagogue you come to on Forrest Dr. coming from Trenholm Rd. Our children were attending the Jewish day school and they were in the play – it was really nice, I got my picture taken with him and I met the Warden. He and I are both Christians and we talked a bit about how much we liked the school. He seemed to me to be one of those people who was going to be looking for trouble. He was very sincere and all about opening debate. Which is what this is about "Why Has There Been No Fatwa Against Bin Laden?":: I think that if there was a standing order against Zarqawi and some of those creeps we could feel like there was nothing to fear from our Muslim neighbors - as it stands now one mans hate is another mans religious belief. I know that Muslims gave me the creeps long before they started the war. Something about a woman dressed head to toe in 100% humidity while hubby is in shirtsleeves makes me sad, the other day at Riverbanks Zoo I saw that. I know that must have been what it was like to be around Germans during the Second World War - not all Germans here in America were Nazi sympathizers but still there was a lot of mistrust - natural well deserved mistrust and hostility. We are actually at war – ask Cindy she knows that.

Maureen Dowd.... Ack!

2005-08-22T16:17:00.000-04:00

'Peace Mom's' marriage a metaphor for Dems:

"Maureen Dowd, who writes like she's auditioning for a minor supporting role in ''Sex And The City.''"

What in the world

2005-08-19T11:39:00.000-04:00

What in the world.

I was thinking about the current state of war.  Orthodox Christianity has no concept of a “just war” but plenty of soldiers are saints.  War is always opposed by the church – but our church is one of the three Orthodox churches near Ft. Jackson so we get visiting soldiers and chaplains often.  It is one of those mysteries of the Church.  I know we are fighting a religious war, it is for the hearts and minds of us all.

I think it is so strange, if you remember the humanity of our neighbor at all if we do not de-humanize, then we try to keep all life sacred wouldn’t these same people be against the broad cultural acceptance of elective termination of human embryos or the experimentation on them?

If we focus on how people die in a war rather than on supporting the process ending the war while trying to keep the humanity of the soldiers as much as possible we give support to the enemies of humanity.  If we care more for the political process than for the people who suffer – the families of soldiers and the country of Iraq we become evil.

I think the debate should focus on what constitutes success in Iraq.  We must make our selves more human through accepting our responsibilities to the soldiers of the US and people of Iraq.

Back to nature

2005-08-18T13:43:00.000-04:00

I have been taking my 11 year old out for lunch once every week or so. I hope I can do it for the foreseeable future. We get some bread or bagels at the bagel shop then go feed the birds on the statehouse grounds. Yesterday there were baby sparrows, juvenile blue jays, a thrasher and a cockaded woodpecker then the pigeons showed up. It was really nice – it was hot though. At one point a jay called out a hawk warning and every bird left – disappeared like in the movies, I expected a t-rex to come stomping out from behind the Civil Rights memorial. Anyway it got to hot so we left.

Harvard sets out to prove there is no God

2005-08-15T14:40:00.000-04:00

CNN.com - Harvard to explore origins of life - Aug 15, 2005

I like this quote:

"My expectation is that we will be able to reduce this to a very simple series of logical events that could have taken place with no divine intervention," said David R. Liu, a professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Harvard.

What does that have to do with the origens of life?
Nothing.

What does divine intervention have to do with science - I thought science just explained our world gave us insight, provided us with more realistic computer generated porn. The real aim of the Harvard study is to shove a monkey bone up the cake release valve of the Idiot Design crowd. This is not about "science" it is monkey bone manipulation.

Jesus is just alright with me..

2005-08-15T09:41:00.000-04:00

It's All About Jesus - Christianity Today Magazine

Today in America I know we have a sense of personal management. That we should be tolerant of each others individual management styles and that we should learn to mold our selves to them likewise- like we are all fast food restaurants with sweaty hairneted slave drivers pressing the burgers of our souls. Be more accepting be less accepting the customer is always right but spit in the mayonnaise glob before you send it out. I like this quote:

I'm not arguing for relativism, but humility. Objective truth exists, but our human ability to discern it is limited. In fact, Truth is not a set of ideas—it's a person. Jesus said, "I am the way and the truth and the life." We only know Truth as much as we know Christ.

That is why becoming Orthodox Christian is best. It is in the name of Jesus that we find strength at any time. It is on the lips of martyrs as they die at the hands of deceived men. It is in the name of Jesus that we feel hope. It is on the door of our hearts even when we give in to the pressure and stage dive into the culture fall on the floor and get trampled. Not everybody sees Him that way and that is the best part of it. That is how we know as Christians that we are right that is how we can be hypocritical to on one hand feed and the other hold a knife – metaphorically that is.

We have the assurance of Salvation a true salvation the kind that is eternal, a bringing closer to God but only in as much as we are willing to accept it. To forgive the other first and to trust, to release the fear and desire for the comforts of this life for the real Comforter. It is to hard. Hard to accept that our God became a man staying one in essence died and rose again that His Spirit dwells within us.

We evolved over billions of years but are each created at the moment of our conception through an imperfect and often selfish and self-obsessed act. It is out of so many choices so much an abundance of distractions that we are called. If we are lucky we hear if we are lucky someone else hears for us and helps. We Christians need Jesus more than ever what he says about how to live our lives is so relevant. We need the belief in the resurrection and the life of the world to come because this one has such expensive gasoline these days.

Free, as in beer, healthcare

2005-08-10T13:21:00.000-04:00

The State | 08/10/2005 | Think tanks blast S.C. Medicaid plan

Speaking of beer - we should subsidize beer for the poor as well – it is no lie that a beer cost more of a percentage of a poor persons budget than a rich persons budget – even if the rich buy expensive imported brands. I remember my wife and first child and the still birth of our second child being on Medicaid, as a young father it was nice – more money for beer – we had food stamps and WIC – I never ate so good in my life as when we was poor. I had plenty of money for beer and the wife did not drink it was hootin up time let me tell you.

Now that I am rich things are a lot harder. It is a good thing I gave up drinking because, frankly now that I am rich I do not have the money for it. I have to spend money on my kids violin and karate and ballet lessons so their brains will be full and they will not cry themselves to sleep at night for lack of mental stimulation. I also do not have the money for cable television so I have no idea what to buy once I am in Wal-Mart. I need free health care so I can spend my money more wisely.

Dealing with loss

2005-08-10T10:35:00.000-04:00

Talking Wounded Often dealing with loss means you take what control you can. What better way to accept loss than to deny the powerful some part of your self, to look at authority with distain to feel conciet and pride.

wow -

2005-08-09T11:23:00.000-04:00

Science & Theology News: "Niels Henrik Gregersen "

Terrorism's effects in Columbia, SC

2005-08-09T09:27:00.000-04:00

The parents of a friend of mine were caught in a religious bombing in the Middle East, they were nearly killed and they lost close friends. Their mother is living with them now she can’t go home to the coast because she is afraid “they” are still after her. PTSD is not one of the illnesses one expects parents to suffer from in their golden years – . It really has this family in a bind – knowing what to do how to help her. I believe it will help them all - bring them closer – PTSD works with the past to form the present, in order to work through it a sufferer has to include loved ones in the process – it can make families closer if they have faith. I really believe this family has that faith.

Britney Spears eats food, has baby.

2005-08-09T09:14:00.000-04:00

CHRISTINA AGUILERA - AGUILERA PREGNANT SPEARS CAREER IS DOOMED

This, while making me slightly nauseous, gives me a feeling of hope. I am so grateful that Ms. Spears is no longer offering her body to the hairy hoards of celebrity obsessed vitamin d lacking strange men and obscure yet revealing wardrobe decisions to the pre-teen ankle biters who crowd the pretzel stand during Christmas in the mall. Instead she is incubating a child.

This Extraordinarily Provincial story was a headline.

2005-08-08T09:27:00.000-04:00

The State | 08/08/2005 | The past catches up with new campus

This was the big headline - what in the world? How is this supposed to be interesting to people in Charleston? or downtown Columbia? I have only the most vague notions of Blythwood - this is not news it is pandering to the idea that money spent on public education is important to us all and the way it is spent is good. This is why I consider The State to be an Organ cleaning service for the NEA. Why the mustachioed Brad Warthen got so upset when I asked him if he was being paid by political forces for Public-Education-the-way-it-is = racist, inefficient, ineffectual, and contrary to the moral sensibilities of South Carolinians. Public education needs to change to be just that Public education. Not the province of the elite indoctrinating the poor into servitude.

Fascist Cayce Government seizes land and displaces aboriginal group

2005-08-05T14:44:00.000-04:00

The State | 08/05/2005 | West Columbia moving ahead with Riverwalk The river flood plain is a wild place - there are lots of "homeless" home sites out there some of them are long term. When Ozzie gets moving he calls in the bulls that toss them out - eviction notice - but you know that is life. It is a lawless place down by the river and having the concrete paths and light posts help but it is still a bit strange- the Columbia side is policed almost completely differently than the Wet Columbia side.

Cage match scheduled for Fox news

2005-08-05T14:16:00.000-04:00

CNN Suspends Novak After He Walks Off Set

That is cool thing about Fox news is that they have a cage and they do not let people off the set till one of thems blood pressure drops below a certain level -