tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38535612011-04-21T12:28:02.932-07:00Loyal PeonDoing the best I can with what's left
E-mail: LCoats8955@aol.comLaurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.comBlogger2951100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1162165172425812622006-10-29T15:38:00.000-08:002006-10-29T15:39:32.443-08:00****Best Laid Plans ****Nothing ever works out like we planned, does it? It now looks like I am going to be teaching Bible more-or-less full time this year. Our plan was that Jay, our pastor (and my friend) would teach Wednesday and I would fill in. Jay has a heart murmur and has had to give up something. As the lowest thing on his personal totem, the school lost out. Only fair, I guess.Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1154881086725372582006-08-06T09:09:00.000-07:002006-08-07T09:36:40.356-07:00A Lesson To Be Learned"When I was in the Navy, I once witnessed a bar fight in downtown Olongapo (Philippines) that still haunts my dreams. The fight was between a big oafish bar bully and a rather soft-spoken, medium sized Latino sailor from my ship.All evening the bully had been trying to pick a fight with one of us and had finally set his sights on this diminutive shipmate of mine... figuringLaurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1154644181703116082006-08-03T15:22:00.000-07:002006-08-03T15:29:41.716-07:00**** but I wanna know! **** Prov. 3:5 “trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not to your own understanding…” We touched on this yesterday, a bit. Paul warns us in Romans 9 not to set our selves up to judge the motives and actions of God. What’s the big deal? In our age, especially, logic and reason are king. Have you ever seen a performance of Faust? I didn’t think so. The play hasLaurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1154390245840863532006-07-31T16:10:00.000-07:002006-08-01T15:25:29.050-07:00**** What the eye sees **** Well, gang, today we're going to cover a lot of territory and (hopefully) end up with something meaningful. Why does an optical illusion work? Let's look at some examples of camouflage. If you see a trumpet fish in an aquarium or a tiger in the zoo, they stand out - are impossible to miss. If you see them in their native habitat, they blend in invisibly. Why? The eye Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1154015304381494012006-07-27T08:38:00.000-07:002006-07-27T08:48:24.383-07:00*** Mea Culpa *** Last night, reading The Fourfold Statte of Human Nature by Thomas Boston, I was struck by a comment he made, namely that as people age, their predominant sin will often change. This is certainly true in my case. For much of my life I was, bluntly, covetous. Greedy. I had a tendency to look at things in terms of financial advantage. Now, however, that's changed. Once knownLaurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1153796875669406422006-07-24T20:07:00.000-07:002006-07-27T19:22:47.270-07:00**** random thoughts **** Well, gang, for those of you who don't know, I'll be 58 the 13th of August. At this time of life, it's traditional for a man to look back and wonder, especially if he's disabled, which I am Three strokes and a heart attack have pretty much put paid to any career aspirations. At this stahge , I have to wonder, what am I? Used up? Has been? Even worse, never was? QuestionsLaurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1153351884902544662006-07-19T16:18:00.000-07:002006-07-19T16:31:24.940-07:00****movies ***** For those of you who don't know, I like to watch movies. A lot. My main other hobby is reading. Sometimes I read while watching movies. Why? Well, incipient boredom has something to do with it, of course - someting to do with my time. More to the point, books and movies give you a chance to see people and places in situations you would never see in real life. In fact, someLaurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1152913715326600302006-07-14T14:40:00.000-07:002006-07-14T14:48:35.336-07:00"Immigration Laws"1. If you migrate to this country, you must speak the native language. 2. You have to be a professional or an investor unskilled workers allowed. 3. There will be no special bilingual programmed the schools, no special ballots for elections,all government business will be conducted inure language Foreigners will NOT have the right to vote no matter how long they are here Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1152800486674088832006-07-13T07:13:00.000-07:002006-07-13T19:12:44.440-07:00Hooray! Today the university officially notified me that I can indeed do additional course work plus a 2,000 word paper to fulfill my Master's requirement. The fee for this is $300, $50 of which is required to get the process started.Yea! To explain a little, I've been working on my Masters in Biblical Studies for quite a while, and finished my course work a couple of years ago, leaving only my Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1152238141499272072006-07-06T18:57:00.000-07:002006-07-12T22:48:54.536-07:00**** missing Cody **** I was reminded tonight that Cody, my beloved Lab, died about six months ago. I was in the hospital at the time, awaiting heart surgery, so it didn't hit me all at once, but I'm remembering him tonight. He was not supposed to be my dog, but rather my daughter's. That changed, though, when I injured my back and was out of work for months. Cody took on his role as my companionLaurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1146795563001690802006-05-04T18:59:00.000-07:002006-07-13T00:01:51.746-07:00It's been a long time, I know. To coin a phase, "I've been sick." To be honest, though, one reason I stopped blogging for so long is that I gave up, convinced nobody was reading the thing. Today, however, somebody asked me why I had quit, so I've decided to give it another try. I've been a Christian for a long time, but I still don't understand what some of them seem to be saying. I keep Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1106259689530038932005-01-20T14:20:00.000-08:002005-01-20T14:21:29.530-08:00** and you thought you knew weird people. **
A 50-year-old Reno man told authorities he castrated himself to lower his libido and learned of the procedure on the Internet, police said
Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1106154234412550412005-01-19T09:03:00.000-08:002005-01-19T09:03:54.413-08:00Liar, Liar, Now You're FiredJanuary 12, 2005
QUOTATIONS FROM CHAIRMAN ANN
January 17, 2005, 1:56 PM
SCARBOROUGH TONIGHT, JAN 17, 10PM MSNBC -
If CNN doesn't hire them, Dan Rather and his producers can always get a job teaching at the Columbia School of Journalism. The Columbia Journalism Review recently defended the CBS report on George Bush using forged National Guard documents with the Tawana Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1105825119697664922005-01-15T13:37:00.000-08:002005-01-15T13:38:39.696-08:00** first, kill all the lawyers, part 12,674th **
A federal judge Friday rejected a death row inmate's request to halt his upcoming execution on grounds that a chemical used to paralyze condemned prisoners during lethal injections could impair their free speech rights.
Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1105818903245508262005-01-15T11:54:00.000-08:002005-01-15T11:55:03.246-08:00Nibras Kazimi
Mr. Kazimi is an Iraqi writer living in Washington D.C. He can be contacted at nibraska@yahoo.com
Let me tell you a thing or two about my good friend George. I like this George fellow. He’s been kicking ass recently, and hardly anyone but the bad guys has noticed. He himself is probably unaware of this turnabout since the diplomatic and intelligence bureaucracies that are Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1105816955519568082005-01-15T11:21:00.000-08:002005-01-15T11:22:35.520-08:00** yet another hero(ine) **
Marie Alexander of Lecanto admits she doesn't get around like she used to. But when 2 women tried to steal her purse this week, they had no idea what they were in for.
MARIE ALEXANDER: "They saw a gray hair (woman) hobbling with a cane and they figured I was an easy target."Alexander chased after the women, leaving her cane behind.
MARIE ALEXANDER: "I only had $20 in Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1105721878584296302005-01-14T08:56:00.000-08:002005-01-14T08:57:58.586-08:00** we're from the government, and we're here to help **
Gator going to eat your kids or pets? Not to worry, the Florida Fish and Game Commision will be there in seven to 10 days to take care of it
Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1105218041309435622005-01-08T13:50:00.000-08:002005-01-14T09:34:09.763-08:00A major difference between Europe and America, important though rarely noted, is the religious difference. America's history has been a series of falling aways, followed by spontaneous religious revival, often at the expense of the organized church. I myself am a product of such a revival, the "Jesus people" movement of the sixties. This brought, as such things usually do, many new Christians Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1105215493691614012005-01-08T13:08:00.000-08:002005-01-14T09:36:02.503-08:00** did you know? **
When I was a child, I was taught, from the standard science texts, that diamonds were produced deep in the Earth's crust. Deposits of pure-enough carbon, under the great pressure and heat there, over millions of years turned into diamonds. Oil was supposed to be produced if the pressure or purity was just a little less, but still take millions of years to produce. For all I Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1105210965301067142005-01-08T10:52:00.000-08:002005-01-08T11:02:45.300-08:00More thoughts on the tsunami ***
Of all the articles on the tsunami I've read, there's one thread that deserves more comment, certainly more than I'm going to give it in a forum like this. The question, and it's a good one, is Why?
We generally think of life in terms of cause and effect, or of action and consequence. If you live as a drunkard and your liver goes out, you asked for it. Save Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1105209332343226492005-01-08T10:26:00.000-08:002005-01-08T10:41:37.016-08:00** voting irregularities r us **
The Democrats, of course, have made a great fuss about "voting problems" in Ohio thayt should, they say, invalidate the Presidential election. Senator Boxer (D - lalaland) forced a delay in counting the electoral college to "call attention to" voting problems in Ohio. For instance? "Long lines at voting booths. Excuse me?
The Democrats have taken up where they Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1105071378812140072005-01-06T20:06:00.000-08:002005-01-08T11:51:46.743-08:00** whither the FCC? **
Last year was not a good year for the FCC. A second-and-a half exposure to Janet Jackson's right nipple and a few four letter words on radio caused the FCC to go berserk, issuing fines and censures every which way. Result: many stations were afraid to show Saving Private Ryan on Veteran's Day because the soldiers talked like soldiers actually do. When it was shown that Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1104870382713688342005-01-04T13:23:00.000-08:002005-01-04T12:26:22.713-08:00** The UN does not want overseas adoptions for orphaned children **
Unicef Australia chief executive Carolyn Hardy says her organisation will not support or encourage inter-country adoptions.
"We believe children are best left where they are in environments that are familiar to them, in a culture that's familiar to them, speaking a language that they know, and in the schools that they're alreadyLaurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1104819851821510162005-01-03T22:22:00.000-08:002005-01-07T10:56:49.856-08:00** just in case you thought they were sane:
These are the ten most popular conspiracy theories in Arab lands right now:
10) U.S. and Zionist Control of Al-Jazeera: Muslim critics of Al-Jazeera frequently charge that it is run by the U.S. and Israel. In the Tehran Times on December 2, Hassan Hanizadeh wrote that "rumors arose suggesting that the network was established by U.S. and Israeli agentsLaurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1104706778316109662005-01-02T14:57:00.000-08:002005-01-02T14:59:38.316-08:00From Powerline blog:
The issue relates to the shocking photo, recently published by the AP, showing three terrorists in the act of murdering two Iraqi election workers on a street during daylight. The photographer was obviously within a few yards of the scene of the murder, which raises obvious questions, such as 1) what was the photographer doing there; did he have advance knowledge of the Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1104700997126981722005-01-02T13:57:00.000-08:002005-01-14T09:39:51.836-08:00I just finished watching The Final Countdown, a better-than-good-but-not-great movie in which the USS Nimitz is transported via a freak "storm" to the South Pacific on Dec. 6, 1941. At first eveybody is confused, then gradually the truth begins to hit them - they are in a position to block the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and change the course of history. At one point a US Senator of 1941 is Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1104643792929413222005-01-01T21:29:00.000-08:002005-01-01T21:29:52.930-08:00Progress in Iraq you may not have heard about
Ray Reynolds, SFC Iowa Army National Guard 234th Signal Battalion, who served in Iraq offers this summary of what's been accomplished there:
Over 400,000 kids have up-to-date immunizations.School attendance is up 80% from levels before the war.Over 1,500 schools have been renovated and rid of the weapons stored there so education can occur.The port ofLaurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1104619562137233832005-01-01T14:45:00.000-08:002005-01-01T14:46:02.136-08:00The Twelve Days of Christmas revisited
On the 12th day of Eurocentrically imposed midwinter festival my significant other in a consenting, adult, monogamous, relationship gave to me:
Twelve males reclaiming their inner warrior through ritual drumming.
Eleven pipers piping (plus an 18 member pit orchestra made up of members in good standing of the Musicians Equity Union as called for in their Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1104617845332526652005-01-01T14:14:00.000-08:002005-01-01T14:17:25.333-08:00Via RightWingDuck:
Who you calling Stingy?
When you first heard of this United Nation's Twerp calling us stingy, you probably had one of 3 reactions.
"You’ll take our Buck Fifty and like it."
"Who gives a crap what the United Nations thinks of us?"
"Are we paying your salary to ‘diss’ us, you ungrateful beyotch?"
Now, he's bit more, er, direct than I am, but not by much. Other than for Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1104613430056754042005-01-01T13:00:00.000-08:002005-01-01T13:03:50.056-08:00** somebody promote this guy **
In Milwaukee, police officer Walter Tyshynsky has been tracking down and ticketing people who abuse handicapped placards. As a cripple (2 strokes) this is rather a pet peeve of mine. I vividly remember being unable to get one one the few handicapped saces at Winn Dixie, only to see auburn football players rush out of the store, get in one of those cars and leaveLaurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1104531448331506872004-12-31T14:15:00.000-08:002005-01-07T11:13:47.636-08:00Lately, I've been thinking a bit about the relationship between the terms used in debating an issue and the outcome of the debate. It seems to me to be determinative.
The problem of God's sovereinty vs Man's responsibility is usual expressed as God's Sovereignty versus Free Will. This has a couple of problems when looked at closely. Firstly, Free Will is simply not a Biblical term. In fact, the Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1104423114789682582004-12-30T08:11:00.000-08:002004-12-30T08:11:54.790-08:00** More on global warming **
It is snowing in the UAE for the first time in history.
Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1104422240892388142004-12-30T07:53:00.000-08:002004-12-30T07:57:20.893-08:00** Thoughts on the tsunami **
Well, sort of. I dabble enough in science to understand the language and follow at least most of the discussions, but that's it. No, I was thinking about the lessons it can teach us. Love life, pain and all. It is a wonderful and terrible thing. Embrace your loved ones in your thoughts. Don't dwell on their faults. The next time they go through the door, evenLaurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1104388972608202532004-12-29T22:41:00.000-08:002004-12-29T22:42:52.610-08:00A baby's thoughts, by Frank J.
My nerves can't take this anymore; I need to get out of here. It so deceptively warm and comfortable in the womb... like they want me to fall asleep. But I can't sleep... that's when they come for me. I'm sure that a couple of time I felt some poking and prodding was them preparing the vacuum... sure of it! They were just waiting for me to go to sleep… but I was onLaurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1104387932986179792004-12-29T22:24:00.000-08:002004-12-29T22:25:32.986-08:00Mark Steyn nails it again:
It’s already obvious the 43rd Presidency is far more consequential than the 41st: George Bush Sr’s place in history will mainly be as the guy who warmed up the name for George Bush Jr.
Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1104384813703394322004-12-29T21:29:00.000-08:002004-12-29T21:33:33.703-08:00I've just been reminded of something I kind of knew, but never appreciated the significance of. That is, the history of Eastern Europe was defined by fighting off successive waves of Muslim invaders. Western Europe, saved from this by Eastern Europe's success, defined itself by wars between various sorts of Christians.
Therefore, today, Western Europe has trouble deciding what to do wih the Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1104383914353541502004-12-29T21:12:00.000-08:002004-12-29T21:18:34.353-08:00** I'm not surprised **
The F22 Raptor fighter aircraft is in trouble. Apparently it's both expensive and unsafe. Rumfeld dumped the Crusader artillery as too expensive and too limited purpose, and I expect the same to happen here. Our success with UAV's, upon which I have blogged before, indicates that the US would be better off spending less money on more unmanned devices. That way, when Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1104383291872432942004-12-29T21:07:00.000-08:002004-12-29T21:08:11.873-08:00** with the purest motives, of course**
Former US attorney general Ramsey Clark (Lyndon Johnson) has joined the team of Jordan-based lawyers defending Saddam Hussein. Mr Clark said his principal concern was protecting the rights of the former Iraqi leader.
Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1104383178912885592004-12-29T21:03:00.000-08:002004-12-29T21:06:18.913-08:00** In case you've got money( it ain't cheap) and would like to be able to tell somebody trying to rape your wife "Go to Hell" and mean it**
New Combat Shotgun Succeeds in Iraq
December 29, 2004: Shotguns have been a popular American weapon in Iraq, mainly because there is a new, and much better, military shotgun available. In 2000, the U.S. Department of Defense adopted the Benelli 12 gauge Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1104376506971527822004-12-29T19:08:00.000-08:002004-12-29T19:15:06.970-08:00** Einstein might have been wrong, after all **
After the 30+ years of the Pioneer missions, some intereting anomalies have turned up. For one thing, the spacecraft are not where they're supposed to be. People who have spent decades comparing predicted positions with actual positions for these spacecraft( are these guys devoted, or what?) have found that the positional variation increases overLaurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1104373712526516842004-12-29T18:27:00.000-08:002004-12-29T18:28:32.526-08:00From Natalie Solent, who blogs about everything from religion to politics to sewing (she likes sewing):
The mountains have laboured and given forth a mouse. Via Instapundit I was led to this article in Scientific American. It says that most of the positive effects claimed for high self esteem either are not true, or are correlations with causation not proved. The only ones that really stand up Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1104365497347254462004-12-29T16:10:00.000-08:002004-12-29T16:11:37.346-08:00One weird thing about the great tsunami is that nobody has found any dead animals. Not one.
Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1104365383120960572004-12-29T16:06:00.000-08:002004-12-29T16:09:43.120-08:00Doesn't anybody read Tom Clancy?
In today's news:
FBI Probes Laser Beam Directed at Cockpit
Note: In Debt of Honor, two CIA guys down an enemy plane by using a powerful laser to blind the pilot while he was attempting to land. This is well within today's technology. No SF required.
Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1104365128722084402004-12-29T16:03:00.000-08:002004-12-29T16:05:28.723-08:00Will wonders never cease?
They are actually FIRING PEOPLE FOR POOR PERFORMANCE at the CIA!
Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1104290609418305752004-12-28T19:15:00.000-08:002004-12-29T10:30:29.230-08:00Tragedy !! Tragedy !!
I've been following this all day, and the number just keeps growing. (currently over 60,000 update: noe over 100,000)
There was an 8.9+ earthquake in Thailand, powerful enough to slow the rotation of the Earth. (update: I just read it also moved the island nation of Sumatra more than 100 feet!) As usual in such areas with earthquakes, the following tsunami does the real Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1104289678648498052004-12-28T19:05:00.000-08:002004-12-28T19:07:58.650-08:00**Comon, lady! I think your kids never gave it a second thought! **
More weirdness from England. What is it over there, anyway?
Police order cover up of naked gnome 22/12/2004 - 17:14:56
Police ordered a naked, large-breasted, festive garden gnome to cover up after a motorist complained it was indecent, it emerged today.The well-endowed, three-foot-tall gnome was sitting in the driver’s seat Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1104284363466605482004-12-28T17:37:00.000-08:002004-12-28T17:39:23.466-08:00From MEMRI, a site which rnanslates Arabic articles into English:
Saudi Government Daily Accuses U.S. Army of Harvesting Organs of Iraqis
In the Saudi government daily Al-Watan, a n article from Brussels written by Fakhriya Ahmad charges that, based on alleged secret European military reports, the U.S. military in Iraq is harvesting and selling human organs. The following day, the story was alsoLaurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1103832504613625962004-12-23T13:07:00.000-08:002004-12-28T19:10:17.003-08:00** and I thought Montgomery was dumb!! **
Alarmed by glimpses of sweaty citizens in the buff, the city council in the southeastern city of Villahermosa, Mexico, has adopted a law banning indoor nudity, officials confirmed on Wednesday.
Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1103832239497914162004-12-23T13:01:00.000-08:002004-12-23T12:03:59.496-08:00** did this ever bother you? It did me. **
Ok, so here we have little Rudolph with an unfortunate deformity. All of the other reindeer laughed and called him names, shunning him from the tightly-knit reindeer community -- right up until they have a use for the little mutant's deformity! Then they suddenly declare they "love" him. Yeah, right. Just so long as his honker lights up the night sky!
Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1103831947548706302004-12-23T11:56:00.000-08:002004-12-23T11:59:07.546-08:00** some people have w-a-a-a-y too much fun (and time on their hands) **
Follow this link for hilarious versions of Christmas Carol synopses as told by various people.
http://techcentralstation.com/122304D.html
Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1103748799951356782004-12-22T13:52:00.000-08:002004-12-22T12:53:19.950-08:00I wanted to send you a Christmas Card, but my attorney asvised me to send the following:
Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral, celebration of some sort of holiday on or about the winter solstice, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1103750618806428622004-12-22T13:18:00.000-08:002004-12-23T12:23:07.440-08:00** Mr. Language Person again **
Every so often I hear some sincere, over-the-top type Christian freaking about "Merry Xmas", and what an abomination it is, since "everybody knows" that X is the unknown factor in algebra, and Xmas is just another way of getting Jesus out of Christmas. These guys need to stop before they hurt themselves. X is actually the first letter in Christ in the original Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1103678753178483042004-12-21T17:24:00.000-08:002004-12-21T17:25:53.176-08:00** Doancha just love it? **
Are Red Staters really the uneducated rubes that so many beautiful Blue people make them out to be? Maybe. But Oklahomans, Hoosiers, and Idahoans have at least one thing over their well-educated New York counterparts — they can at least spell their presidential candidate's name correctly.
According to the official documents displayed on the website of the National Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1103677643414823822004-12-21T17:06:00.000-08:002004-12-21T17:07:23.413-08:00*** yee-hah!! **
Senate Republican leaders yesterday appointed two of Congress's most outspoken antiabortion members to the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is bracing for potentially bruising hearings on nominations to the Supreme Court.
Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1103677484820040732004-12-21T17:04:00.000-08:002004-12-21T17:04:44.820-08:00** set phasers on kill **
A new radar system for a Katyusha-killing laser cannon has been brought to Israel to be tested against Kassam rockets and mortar shells fired by the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1103580807266441582004-12-20T14:11:00.000-08:002004-12-20T14:13:27.266-08:00** heard about Rumsfeld's problems? do you care? **
Apparently Bush doesn't. Everybody from neocons to the MSM has been on Rumsfeld's case for the past couple of weeks over nonsense. Bush reminds everybody that he picked him, the Senate confirmed him, and that's that.
Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1103559236370981842004-12-20T08:13:00.000-08:002004-12-20T08:13:56.370-08:00** for those of you who can do something about it **
The military hospital in Landshtull, Germany has requested DVDs and personal DVD players for our Marines who are recovering from battle wounds.
You can send them to:Chaplain Irving Elson, Rabbic/o Commanding OfficerHeadquarters & Headquarters Squadron CHAPLAINP.O. Box 452013San Diego, CA 92145-2013
Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1103557542427786682004-12-20T07:43:00.000-08:002004-12-20T07:45:42.426-08:00Just in case you thought this sort of thing is new:
From the New London, CT Day:
‘Women's War' At Wequetequock Made Many A Headline In 1883
By CAROL W. KIMBALLDay Staff ColumnistPublished on 12/20/2004
As Christmas approached in 1883 residents of Stonington village were not dreaming of jolly old Saint Nick nor entertaining visions of sugar plums. All eyes were on Borough Hall and lawsuits Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1103555213863765662004-12-20T06:52:00.000-08:002004-12-20T07:15:15.830-08:00** Whither the blogoshere? **
There is an excellent post at http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1103476924.shtml on what's happening with blogs right now, but I feel that he doesn't explore the historical connection enough. We are in a position today roughly analagous to that a generation after the development of the printing press. What happened was that, after centuries of having the flow of Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1103503558454759222004-12-19T16:44:00.000-08:002004-12-19T16:45:58.453-08:00Remember how in
Oklahoma City they forbade the singing of Christmas carls and the use of a creche? It seems people noticed: The Dallas Morning News reports on the "simple but pointed Christmas message that voters delivered this week to school officials" in Mustang, OK. "If the fifth-graders couldn't have Baby Jesus in their school play, then the school district couldn't have an $11 million Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1103502492433309192004-12-19T16:27:00.000-08:002004-12-19T16:28:12.433-08:00From KFOR, Oklahoma City: The television station of Lebanon's Hezbollah militants has lost its satellite feed to the United States after Washington put it on a list of terror organizations.
Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1103502383939417062004-12-19T16:16:00.000-08:002004-12-21T17:02:45.463-08:00Almost without comment from the professional media, we are seeing the most monumental shift of our lifetime. The US administration has recognized that, without the Warsaw Pact on its borders, Europe is becoming globally insignificant, and is moving troops and patronage accordingly. The Korean Demilitarized Zone no longer has US troops; we just removed, with little fanfare, the last US troops in Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1103501016390587702004-12-19T16:01:00.000-08:002004-12-19T16:03:36.390-08:00Germany is in financial trouble. The Bundesbank has been authorized to sell 120 tons of gold to bring in badly needed funds. Tell me again how Europe is going to knock off the US as the world's premier economic power.
Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1103500841459706762004-12-19T15:52:00.000-08:002004-12-19T16:00:41.460-08:00I read in today's Boston Globe that some Democrats, including of all people Nancy Pelosi, are saying that the Democratic Party needs to make room for pro-life people without changing the party's stance that a woman should be able to get an abortion "whenever she chooses." How this is to be accomplished seems to me a bit of a mystery. Support for current abortion policy depends on not looking atLaurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1103398155418170262004-12-18T11:25:00.000-08:002004-12-18T11:29:15.420-08:00* Kyoto dead **
It is becoming generally recognized that the Kyoto treaty to eliminate global warming is dead. It is becoming obvious that the Kyoto accords are useless in actually reducing the CO2 level in the atmosphere, since the major polluters in the regard are China and India, who are exempt from the treaty's povisions. Also, Kyoto let unanswered the two major questions now being asked Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1103397768989304122004-12-18T11:05:00.000-08:002004-12-18T11:22:48.990-08:00** yet another daily beef **
I'm very tired of hearing people talk about the problem of "teenage births". This simply masks the real problem by setting up a straw man. The real problem is illigitimate births. My mother was a teenager when she married, and still a teen when I was born. During her youth, this was more the norm than not. Biblical scholars are virtually unanimous that the Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1102910940792950082004-12-12T20:07:00.000-08:002004-12-12T20:09:00.793-08:00Sad, but inevitable**
The USS Arizona Memorial Center is slowly sinking. Metal only lasts so long in salt water.
Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1102910759768106372004-12-12T20:05:00.000-08:002004-12-12T20:05:59.766-08:00Iraqi Candidates Take Democracy Seminar
KUWAIT CITY (AP) - About 100 candidates for Iraq's first popular election in decades traveled to Kuwait on Saturday for a seminar about the democratic process. The men and women were bussed from the southern Iraqi city of Basra for the two-day event organized by Denmark's government. Two of the candidates are running for the national assembly, while the Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1102910672014937892004-12-12T19:57:00.000-08:002004-12-19T15:34:09.013-08:00China sent a couple of nuclear submarines into Japanese waters illegally last month and got its hand slapped pretty good. Now they are complaining that the Japanese are improving their state of military readiness after last year amending the Japanese Constitution to permit Japanese troops to be sent overseas. (They did this so they could legally send troops to help the US out in the Middle East.)Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1102909430897367352004-12-12T19:33:00.000-08:002004-12-12T19:43:50.896-08:00Somebody (I'd give credit if I could remember who) pointed out that the Democrats may have been partially right when they said that people didn't understand their positions. The Republicans had a clear, easy-to-explain position on everything to the War on Terror to Social Security Reform to Iraq, to you-name-it. You might agree or you might not, but you knew what they believed and what they Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1102891871100044132004-12-12T14:49:00.000-08:002004-12-12T14:51:11.100-08:00Never let it said that the world is not full of whackos who will oppose anything good. If you doubt me, go to abolishadoption.com, and see for yourself.
Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1102890388515341602004-12-12T14:24:00.000-08:002004-12-12T14:26:28.516-08:00** in other words, like it was here 20 years ago **
By Natalia Dueholm from Poland:
When Poland was devoured by its German and Soviet neighbors in 1939, the school system officially stopped functioning. The home became the underground seat of learning for more than a million young Poles. In 21st century Poland, some Poles still learn underground, although their war is different.
Throughout Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1102889778640403382004-12-12T14:14:00.000-08:002004-12-17T11:28:17.740-08:00I never expected this, but should have! People confuse fiction and reality to the extent that the actor who portrayed the Roman soldier flogging Jesus in The Passion cannot show his face in public. He lives in Rome, you see.
Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1102878530522678182004-12-12T11:07:00.000-08:002004-12-12T11:08:50.523-08:00OOOOh, my daughter wants one!
For Christmas, you can buy a talking Gollum doll!
Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1102877121978133792004-12-12T10:44:00.000-08:002004-12-12T10:45:21.976-08:00** the old man of Europe and his fate **
Follow the link and read - I couldn't get the thing to copy for some reason, but it's definitely worth your time.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2092-1357349_1,00.html
Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1102876032929305162004-12-12T10:24:00.000-08:002004-12-20T06:42:56.656-08:00** make up your own headline - I don't dare **
Studies in Russia show that having good sex helps fight the common cold. In turns out that enzymes vital to our immune system increase during intercourse and double after orgasm. My question is, how, exactly, did they test this? Did they have blood monitors hooked up to people while they screwed? If so, what positions and/or techniques had the best Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1102875741584115122004-12-12T10:21:00.000-08:002004-12-12T10:22:21.583-08:00From Shreveport, LA: Witnesses to stabbing are dropping like flies while suspect is out on bond. Hmmm...
Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1102875620532170382004-12-12T10:18:00.000-08:002004-12-12T10:20:20.533-08:00** did anybody notice? **
From the newspaper Japan Today: The Entire Portuguese government resigns
Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1102803355048452042004-12-11T14:10:00.000-08:002004-12-11T14:15:55.046-08:00** I knew Marines were tough, but wow! **
Sgt. C., who asked that his name not be used, was shot in the face with a 9mm handgun in Iraq. He not only survived, but proceded forward and captured the bad guy, according to AnnaLee Kruyer, DDS, attached to the Marines there. She repaired the damage to his gums and gave him a temporary fix for the tooh knocked out by the bullet. If I shot a guy in Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1102797612431365552004-12-11T13:30:00.000-08:002004-12-12T10:15:50.040-08:00** time for the daily beef **
In the interests of full disclosure, here goes: I watch, and enjoy, a lot of movies and TV. As a fan of film noir, I also do not demand that all characters played must be good people. On the other hand, I am getting rather tired to having to exert myself to find a movie that has any characters I could remotely relate to, since those who are in charge of most movie Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1102796747290558072004-12-11T13:23:00.000-08:002004-12-11T12:25:47.290-08:00** so now we're murderers? **
From the Chicago Sun-Times obituaries: Herbert M. Hazelkorn, DDS, PhD Herbert M. Hazelkorn, of Glencoe, Illinois, left us on December 7, 2004, of a broken heart at the recent passing of his wife of 35 years, Bobby, exacerbated by a broken spirit arising from the results of the Presidential election.
Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1102792288433189652004-12-11T11:11:00.000-08:002004-12-20T06:49:05.163-08:00** Europe is not entirely alone **
One of the principal causes of Europe's Muslim problem is that, for a generation, they have not required (or permitted, depending on country) immigrants to be absorbed into their culture and politics. In effect, they have created ghettos of these immigrants, usually poor and bitter. These immigrants have been allowed, even encouraged, to come in for one simple Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1102789186005268152004-12-11T10:18:00.000-08:002004-12-11T10:19:46.006-08:00** I'm glad I don't live in Norway. **
Norway is storing tons of nuclear waste behind a garage door in the middle of a city. But they do plan to do something about it in a few years.
Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1102789046217991292004-12-11T10:14:00.000-08:002004-12-20T07:38:22.713-08:00From the British Independent: Mormons who borrowed $18 million, convinced the world was ending, were surprised to discover they have to pay the money back when prediction didn't come true.
I thought only Pentecostal weirdos pulled that sort of thing. Mormons? It may have something to do with the fact that these were members of an offshoot group that still practiced polygamy. The cult leader has Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1102733666496909692004-12-10T18:53:00.000-08:002004-12-10T18:54:26.496-08:00For years Holland was celebrated as a symbol of racial tolerance and liberalism. But two high-profile murders by Muslim immigrants have changed all that. Escaping the stress of clogged roads, street violence and loss of faith in Holland's once celebrated way of life, the Dutch middle classes are leaving the country in droves for the first time in living memory.
Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1102732472488933362004-12-10T18:34:00.000-08:002004-12-10T18:34:32.490-08:00Tonight is the fourth night of Armed Jews Week, or as it is more popularly known, Hanukkah. Just thought you'd like to know.
Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1102704146742274562004-12-10T10:38:00.000-08:002004-12-10T10:42:26.743-08:00Die-hard liberals, upset that Dubya is still in office, try another tack. They have filed a complaint in Germany, trying to get German courts to hold the administration criminally liable. The complaint, filed by the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights, alleges that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other U.S. officials condoned torture at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. The Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1102703244953232702004-12-10T10:22:00.000-08:002004-12-11T13:46:18.243-08:00This past week, I've been thinking about the fruit of the Spirit, in particular Joy. What exactly is it, and how does it manifest itself? There certainly seems to be some confusion, doesn't there? Most seem to think it's synominous with happiness, but that's not exactly true. Happiness seems to depend on external circumstances.
In case you didn't know, things are tough around the old homestead Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1102702170668816232004-12-10T10:07:00.000-08:002004-12-10T10:09:30.666-08:00** No sh*t, Sherlock! **
Fron today's news: Vatican not amused with Italian school substituting Nativity play with Little Red Riding Hood. Doesn't care if Muslims are offended
Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1102633205739937702004-12-09T14:57:00.000-08:002004-12-10T18:31:42.873-08:00Yet again Democrats are meeting to ask, "Whither the Dems?" Their response? People didn't know what we stood for. If they had, they would have voted for our guy. This strange conclusion was explained when I discovered who wrote the article: Douglas J. Hattaway, a Democratic political consultant, national spokesman for Al Gore's 2000 presidential campaign
We all know how that turned out.
Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1102632975034028712004-12-09T14:51:00.000-08:002004-12-09T14:56:15.033-08:00Remember how the Usual Suspects filed suit in federal court to block implementation of Prop. 200, the Arizona initiative blocking the use of public funds for aid to illegal aliens? Despite whining and tears from the professoonal synpathy crowd, a federal judge (David Bury) has given the OK for Gov. Janet Napolitano to officially proclaim approval of parts of Proposition 200. Other parts of it Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1102632364946971772004-12-09T14:44:00.000-08:002004-12-09T14:46:04.946-08:00** just in: Zogby thinks Republicans are liars and cheats **
Following an Election Day prediction that Democratic candidate John Kerry would win more than 300 electoral votes and the presidency, one of America's most well known polling firms continued the job Wednesday of explaining its flawed projection. Shawnta Watson Walcott, communications director for Zogby International, joined a group of Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1102630535009125762004-12-09T14:14:00.000-08:002004-12-09T14:15:35.010-08:00** More good news from France **
Faced with falling sales of French wines: Pinched by overproduction, shrinking exports, advertising restrictions, an aggressive campaign against alcohol abuse and changing drinking habits, at least 6,000 growers and winemakers staged spirited demonstrations nationwide Wednesday to press the government for help. . . .
Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1102630226245877342004-12-09T14:06:00.000-08:002004-12-09T14:10:26.246-08:00** those we can trust and those we can't made clear **
Unde US pressure, NATO has agreed to a five-fold increase in NATO troups in Iraq. Six countries, however:Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Luxembourg and Spain, refused to send troops under any circumstances. Look for relations with those countries to get even chilier. Granted, not one of the six has a military capable of whipping the Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1102628878626851002004-12-09T13:46:00.000-08:002004-12-09T13:47:58.626-08:00** if your head really, really hurt, would you wait 4 years to go to the doctor? **
From the British Daily Mirror: Man discovers he has two-inch nail embedded in his skull after four years of headaches.
Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1102628641049579402004-12-09T13:37:00.000-08:002004-12-09T14:42:20.260-08:00** It had to happen eventually, I guess. **
Charlotte Church, who became a world-wide sensation as a child singer, has a fantastic voice. Now that she's an adult, apparently the rest of her ain't bad, either. A poll in Ezengland says she has the "best ass in the kingdom". Apparently, a photographer with a telephoto lens photographed her sunbathing topless in her backyard (without her knowledge)Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1102627896186191192004-12-09T13:30:00.000-08:002004-12-09T13:31:36.186-08:00** well, I kind of expected this **
Headline: Canadians depend on luck for national security, says Senate report
Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1102627706196040212004-12-09T13:22:00.000-08:002004-12-09T13:28:26.196-08:00English is set to become the dominant language in the world over the next generation, say researchers. People who speak English is a first or second language now number about a billion. This number is expected to double in the next ten years, since schools worldwide that require English as a second language in schools are beginning to teach it in Elementary instead of high school. The other Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1102533232387824462004-12-08T11:05:00.000-08:002004-12-08T11:13:52.386-08:00Donald Sensing, who runs Christian blog, points out that the reasearch done recently in quantum particle behavior may (or may not) have implications for the centuries-old debate within Chrisianity about the relationship between God's sovereign control over events and the fact that men and women are held morally responsible for the things they do. The problem is usually posed as Predestination Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3853561.post-1102528327092076282004-12-08T09:24:00.000-08:002004-12-21T17:45:16.406-08:00** the Democrats search for a message **
The Democats are holding meetings all over the place, talking about 2006, and more importantly, 2008. They really, really, don't want to be stomped again. And stomped they were. They lost the Presidency, Senate seats, House seats, governorships. On and on the list goes. In political terms, 2004 was a bloodbath. What to do?
Now, lots of Democrats know Laurenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14207032392203366226noreply@blogger.com0