"I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate."
--Romans 7:15 (RSV)
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1944 Lieutenant Joseph Myers of Frederica died instantly in Holland when he threw himself upon a grenade. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross.
Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and may his soul, and all the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
How does it honor the dead to "Imagine there's no heaven"? How does it honor the firefighters who sacrificed their lives to mewl about "Nothing to...die for"? Indeed, it is sung by earnest churchgoers, even at Catholic Masses, who seem to perceive no particular contradiction between the liberating wonder of imagining there's no Heaven and the prayer which begins "Our Father who art in heaven." ... Everything the song advocates and hopes for as a supreme good was the fountainhead of all the horrors of the 20th century. Imagine there's no countries? Hitler dreamt of a world without borders. Imagine there's no heaven? No religion too? Stalin and Mao sought to free us from religion and the burden of hoping for something more than this life. Imagine no possessions? Communism was all about freeing us from possessions (though multi-zillionaire Lennon seems to have honored this dream more in the breach than the observance). Imagine all the people living for today? You got it! A culture of brain-dead MTV-educated "fornicate-today-and-abort-tomorrow" zombies has accomplished the mission.
I think it was Jonah Goldberg who once pointed out how much liberals like to remind us they're smarter than the rest of us. If that's the case, he asked, why do they find "Imagine" such a profound song?
Jay Nordlinger prints a very interesting letter:
Permit me to add something to Secretary Rumsfeld’s observations on the different results in North and South Korea. (Living in South Korea for a year was one of the things that cured me of my youthful leftism.)The Korean people may be the most ethnically homogeneous people on earth. About 60 percent have one of only three surnames: Lee, Kim, and Park.
North and South Korea had the same history from the dawn of history until 1945.
The Korean peninsula is small, and about 45 percent constitutes the South.
At the time of partition through about 1960, I’d say, the economy of the North was more developed than that of the South. The North had a smaller population, but one that was arguably better educated than the South’s. The North had more industry, too. During the 1950s, the South was absolutely destitute, and survived on food donations from the United States.
Thus, in 1945, an “experiment of nature” was carried out. Take a small, homogeneous country and divide it arbitrarily more or less in half. Then install one kind of government in the north and another kind in the south. Close the curtain. See what happens.
The results speak for themselves, don’t they? Fifty years of Communism produced famine, or near famine. Fifty years of an increasingly free-market system produced prosperity and wider political freedom.
What more does anyone need to know about socialism?
I have to accept the historical analysis as accurate, but it raises a very interesting point, which should be common sense to most: socialism doesn't work. We just need to convince liberals of that.
Advice for the day: If you have a lot of tension and you get a headache, do what it says on the aspirin bottle:
"Take two aspirin" and "Keep away from children." --Author Unknown
"Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar." --Drew Carey
"The problem with the designated driver program, it's not a desirable job, but if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At the end of the night, drop them off at the wrong house." --Jeff Foxworthy
"If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there is a man on base." --Dave Barry
"My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, 'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.'" --Paula Poundstone
"A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: "Duh." --Conan O'Brien
"If life were fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead." --Johnny Carson
"Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Afghanistan." --A. Whitney Brown
"You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, 'My God, you're right! I never would've thought of that!'" --Dave Barry
Do you know why they call it "PMS"? Because "Mad Cow Disease" was taken. --Unknown, presumed deceased
"Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer." - W. C. Fields
1978 Former California Governor Ronald Reagan came to Delaware on behalf of incumbent Congressman Thomas B. Evans, Jr. About 700 people paid $10 each to see Ronald Reagan at the Grand Opera House and 45 more spent $500 to have lunch with him at the Hotel du Pont. Two years later, Reagan was a candidate himself, for President.
I was four at the time. Still wish I could have gone and seen The Gipper.
Like Ryan, I am a paleo-conservative according to this test. Which I wouldn't necessarily have expected, since I dislike most self-described paleo-cons.
“Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.” —Joseph Joubert
“Remember: One lie does not cost you one truth but the truth.” —Christian Freidrich Hebbel
“You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“[S]ervicemen who’ve made the ultimate sacrifice... volunteered to do a dangerous job, knowing that it might cost them their lives. They deserve to be remembered as heroes, not victims like the civilians who were murdered on 9/11.” —James Taranto
“There’s nothing commendable about being so impartial between truth and falsity that we split the difference between the two and call it objectivity.” —Paul Greenberg
“Our hopeful joy upon the 1994 takeover of Congress was like finding a new pony by the Christmas tree. Now it’s more like finding it slumped over dead on top of the presents.” —Jonah Goldberg
“While addressing the UN [last week] the Venezuelan President said that the place stunk after President Bush had spoke there the day before. Then someone told him that was just the wind from New Jersey.” —Conan O’Brien
Jay Leno: Radical Muslims are still angry at the Pope. They say the Pope insulted a whole people and their religion. Then they went back to calling for the destruction of Israel and killing everyone.
Urination will go to committee - Aftenposten.no
A local decision that schoolboys must sit on toilet seats when urinating has provoked political debate. The head of The Democrats Party, a splinter group of former Progress Party hardliners, Vidar Kleppe, is outraged that boys at Dvergsnes School in Kristiansand have to sit and pee.Kleppe accuses the school of fiddling with God's work, and wants the matter discussed at the executive committee level of the local council, newspaper Dagbladet reports.
"When boys are not allowed to pee in the natural way, the way boys have done for generations, it is meddling with God's work," Kleppe told the newspaper.
"It is a human right not to have to sit down like a girl," Kleppe said.
Principal Anne Lise Gjul at Dvergsnes School would not comment on Kleppe's plans to make political waves and regretted if anyone was offended by the ban on standing and passing water.
Gjul told NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting) that the young boys are simply not good enough at aiming, and the point was to have a pleasant toilet that could be used by both boys and girls.
Christina Hoff Summers wrote that the current effects of contemporary educational policy is to make boys into girls, either through maliciousness or ignorance of the very real differences between boys and girls. This would seem to be another example fo that mindset.
TV talk-show host Rosie O'Donnell didn't waste any time turning her top-rating program The View into a forum for sheer lunacy. Recently she announced to a surprised audience, "Radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America where we have separation of church and state."
This assertion is, as we kill-crazy, blood-lusting Christians like to call it, a "target-rich environment". First, of course, there is the initial contention of Ms O'Donnell. To which, of course, we all reply, "Amen!"
After all, who can forget the beheading Methodists, the angry riots by surging Catholic mobs enraged over "Piss Christ", the planes flown into mosques by members of the Nebraska Missionary Alliance, the Bible Church members who bombed the disco in Bali, the bomb in the London Underground set off by crazed Lutherans from Lake Wobegon, and the bombs in Spain courtesy of the Billy Graham organization.
Christians? Why there's dangers o'plenty out there from these maniacs. Remember when the Dutch filmmaker was found murdered with a "Precious Moments" Bible verse pinned to his chest with a knife? Remember when the Vatican issued the death fatwa against Dan Brown and he had to go into hiding? You don't think the Salvation Army is for spiritual warfare do you? We're talking about the most deadly fighting force of soulless killers in the world! And, of course, the number of gays and lesbians like Rosie O'Donnell hanged, stoned to death, and sentenced to death by courts in America, where the vast majority of citizens self-identify as Christians, is indistinguishable from places like Iran and Saudi Arabia.
If you've seen one Abrahamic religion, you've seen 'em all.
At bottom, Ackerman simply does not understand the full reason for the Electoral College. He correctly points out that one of its purposes was to distance the selection of the president from the passions and intrigues of faction; and he claims that with the rise of parties, this "filtering" function was largely vitiated. But not entirely. One of the post-1800 Electoral College's salutary accomplishments is that it provided a clearly legitimate president when the party system had broken down, e.g., in 1860 and 1912. Moreover, political scientists have long demonstrated that the Electoral College, with the developing tradition of winner-take-all in each state, works against a multiplicity of parties. The mechanism actually forces parties to seek coalitions among factions, thereby mitigating faction's deleterious effects and fulfilling the original purpose that the framers had in mind.Furthermore, the Electoral College is another example of the framers' plan to include the states in the structure of the central government. As the Constitutional Convention progressed, the delegates realized that it was not enough to divide power between the central government and the states. By itself, that would inevitably engender serious conflict. Instead, the framers included the states as constituent elements in the central government. It was the people of the several states that ratified the Constitution. It would be the states, in one form or another, that would have to agree to amendments. The states would select the senators, and determine who could vote for the House of Representatives. They would set the time, place, and manner of holding federal elections (subject to congressional override). Even in the House, members had to reside in the states from which they were elected. The states would provide the militia needed by the central government. The states would determine how and when presidential electors would be chosen, and the electors would cast their votes in their respective state capitals. And if the Electoral College failed to reach a majority, the House of Representatives, voting as states, would determine the result.
A withering takedown of arguments against the Electoral College. Read it.
delawareonline ? The News Journal ? Delaware tops ranking for economic freedom
Delaware has topped an annual ranking for “economic freedom” for the fourth consecutive year.The First State got high marks in a report prepared jointly by the National Center for Policy Analysis, a Dallas-based think tank and the Fraser Institute, a Canadian think tank.
This is great news. Let's pass some laws that will expand our lead!
"Labor Day marks the beginning of the campaign season: That's when the majority of Americans who intend to vote (which in a mid-term election will be well less than half of all registered voters) begin to pay attention. In 1998 we [Republicans] overplayed the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal. We gave the voters nothing else. They rewarded us by giving the Democrats an additional five seats when we had been planning on Republican gains in the 10-12 seat range. In 2006 the Democrats will, I promise you, overplay the public's unhappiness with Iraq. They have nothing else" -- Rich Galen, former press secretary to Newt Gingrich, writing at his "Mullings" blog
Apparently the DCBA is a bunch of nerds.
Jeff The Baptist: 97%
Ryan of Jokers to the Right: 86%
The lovely Miss Anonymous Opinion: 59%
Mynym: 54%
Anna Venger: 48%
Hube: 40%
Me: 40%
RickJ: 27%
I feel like we all need to have a group sing-along of "White and Nerdy."
Although I guess one of us is excluded from that....
UPDATE: (9/25 23:28) Added Mynym's score.
UPDATE 2: (9/26 09:04): Added RickJ's score. Guess he's the "cool" one of the group.
“There is a rank due to the United States, among nations, which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness.” —George Washington
“Forced belief does not persuade people to love God with their hearts, any more than a forced marriage creates love for another human being. God and relationships must be freely chosen to be meaningful and herein lies the fundamental difference in world views. One sees their God as an angry enforcer who needs goon squads to whip people into line. The other sees God giving humanity free will with blessings and consequences for each choice, but with ultimate judgment reserved for Himself.” —Cal Thomas
“[N]othing the pope has ever said comes even close to matching the vitriol, extremism and hatred that pour out of the mouths of radical imams and fanatical clerics every day, all across Europe and the Muslim world, almost none of which ever provokes any Western response at all. And maybe it’s time that it should... [I]f stray comments by Western leaders—not to mention Western films, books, cartoons, traditions and values—are going to inspire regular violence, I don’t feel that it’s asking too much for the West to quit saying sorry and unite, occasionally, in its own defense. The fanatics attacking the pope already limit the right to free speech among their own followers. I don’t see why we should allow them to limit our right to free speech, too.” —Anne Applebaum
“From a terrible war we learned that unity made us invincible;... that same unity makes us secure. We sought to bring all freedom-loving nations together in a community dedicated to the defense and preservation of our sacred values. Our alliance, forged in the crucible of war, tempered and shaped by the realities of the post-war world, has succeeded... We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we may always be free.” —Ronald Reagan
“I believe this war of civilizations... is one of the most important wars we have ever fought. In the Revolutionary War back in 1775-1783, we had extraordinary leaders, including George Washington... We forget that he lost almost every battle at that time, but he ultimately won the war... In World War II, American casualties totaled 291,577 dead and 671,846 injured. Under the extraordinary leadership of F.D.R., the Allies ultimately won the war, despite losing a number of battles... Why do I recite these historical facts? Because I believe that the U.S. is faltering in the current war... and we are losing our will to prevail. We are losing our fighting spirit as a result of fighting between Republicans and Democrats on just how to prosecute the war... [Making] our involvement in Iraq a partisan issue and characterizing the president’s efforts to protect the homeland from terrorists in an adversarial manner is endangering the country at a moment in time when we are facing an existential threat to our very survival as a nation.” —Ed Koch, former Democrat mayor of New York City
I was talking to a guy at party last night (former Army, I believe) and we got to the subject of American POWs in Iraq. He noted that you never hear about Marines being held hostage or taken prisoner, but that apparently a couple of hundred Army soldiers have been captured by the enemy in Iraq. He argued that it was because the Marines go down fighting, refusing to let the enemy have the satisfaction of taking prisoners. The one time Marines were taken prisoner, they were later found dead, which he argued was a sign that they were too big a pain in the ass to keep as prisoners as they were likely fighting the whole time.
Marines rock.
I'm apparently of below-average nerdiness. I wouldn't have guessed. And not as nerdy as Anna Venger. So there, Anna!
It's like Weird Al wrote about my life!
Not really, but I did get every reference.
This lovely Miss Anonymous Opinion has been honored as her blog Anonymous Opinion's Politics has been chosen as Blog of The Day in the design category for September 21st.
Congratulations, AO!
We have an after hours meeting at work tonight, so I posted the following message on my team's forum in my company's Message Board:
Just as a warning...I'm leaving at 8. Gotta be home in time The Office. What will happen with Pam and Jim?????
Response 1:
Heh...You need TiVo....
It's 9PM for me. Grey's Anatomy, and then ER....
And Virginia is playing GA Tech tonight....
Response 2 (My manager):
Ah...yes...they moved Grey's Anatomy to Thursday at 9pm. It now goes head-to-head with CSI. WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?????
Response 3:
It saddens me to see how many hours of their lives people waste on watching TV. Especially when they could be wasting those hours playing computer games instead, like me!
We are not normal people.
“Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all his laws.” —John Adams
“In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.” —John Collins
“While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert it only irritates.” —Samuel Johnson
“The biggest story since 9/11 is that there hasn’t been an other 9/11. According to our hysterical media culture, everything’s always going wrong. The truth is that we’ve gotten the big things right... Does that mean everything’s perfect? Of course not... [S]ome terrorists will manage to hit us again. But if attempt No. 500 succeeds, it doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth stopping the other 499. Yet, after the next attack, we’ll hear no end of trash-talk about how the War on Terror ‘failed’.” —Ralph Peters
“A Western civilization that will not recognize the essential role that Judaism and Christianity played in its development and will not defend its faith in these religions and the right of other faiths to exist unthreatened, will fall victim to the irrationality and violence of Islam, and the light of reason will be turned off.” —Alan Caruba
“The U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill to build a 700 mile fence along the Mexican border. Apparently, the idea is to keep Mexicans from getting back to Mexico.” —Conan O’Brien
David Letterman: “Top Signs Osama bin Laden is in love with you”: He carved your initials in an infidel; Always gets the camel washed and waxed before he picks you up; Never forgets to release an Al-Jazeera video on your birthday; You say you enjoy Barry Manilow—next day he sends you Barry Manilow’s ear; Orders 1 goat milk, 2 straws; Says only thing hotter than your body is his scorching hatred for the Zionists; Get a romantic greeting card that reads, “You jihad me at ‘Hello”’; He lets you call him “Ossie”; New intelligence reports put his whereabouts at Zales.
Jay Leno: There’ve been huge protests in the Muslim world over anti-Muslim comments made by Pope Benedict. Today the pope apologized, saying he never should have gone drinking with Mel Gibson. ... The new president of Mexico says that he wants to work with the United States to let people in Mexico work jobs that they want to in the United States. As opposed to creating new jobs in Mexico. ... Fox News is reporting that the two leading candidates for the Democratic nomination for president are Hillary Clinton and Al Gore. One wants to prevent the melting of ice bergs and the other is an ice berg. ... Hillary Clinton’s opponent in the New York Senate race has been married three times and had two kids with his chief of staff while married to another woman. For the first time a Clinton is the family values candidate.
Governor Ruth Ann Minner announced today that she has officially joined the Governors Council of the National Museum of the Marine Corps and appointed Eugene R. Bailey, Executive Director, Port of Wilmington, as the state’s liaison to the museum in its efforts to locate all Delawareans who have ever worn the uniform of the United States Marine Corps.
Can you think of anyone less like a Marine than Ruth Ann Minner?
“I am honored to be a part of the museum’s Governors Council and look forward to engaging all Marines from Delaware in this project,” said Governor Minner. “Eugene Bailey is an ex-Marine and will serve as a dedicated and always faithful leader in this effort.”
There is no such thing as an ex-Marine. Once a Marine, always a Marine.
The National Museum of the Marine Corps is under construction on a 135-acre site adjacent to the U.S. Marine Corps Base at Quantico, Va., and will serve as the centerpiece of the Marine Corps Heritage Center. Construction of the building is more than 75 percent complete, with several major artifacts, including aircrafts, tanks, landing vehicles and artillery pieces already installed. The museum’s dedication is set for November 10, 2006, with a public opening to follow on November 13. For more information on the National Museum of the Marine Corps, please visit www.usmcmuseum.org. If you are a Delaware Marine interested in becoming involved, please visit www.portofwilmington.com/marines/ or contact Eugene R. Bailey at (302) 472-7800.
2 Corinthians 6:1-2
Working together with him, then, we entreat you not to accept the grace of God in vain. For he says, "At the acceptable time I have listened to you, and helped you on the day of salvation." Behold, now is the acceptable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.
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To all those who feel hesitant to approach God because you feel unworthy, or are held back by nameless jitters from entering the Catholic Church, or are convinced that God can't ever forgive that unspeakable thing you did once, today's verse is loud and clear: You are acceptable to God in Christ. Now. Today. Take a step. Now is the day of salvation.
Many will recall that on July 8, 1947, witnesses claim an unidentified object with five aliens aboard crashed on a sheep and cattle ranch just outside Roswell , New Mexico. This is a well known incident that many say has long been covered up by the US Air Force and the federal government.However, you may NOT know that in the month of March 1948, exactly nine months after that historic day, Albert Arnold Gore, Jr.; Hillary Rodham; John F. Kerry; William Jefferson Clinton; Howard Dean; Nancy Pelosi; Dianne Feinstein; Charles E. Schumer; and Barbara Boxer were born.
That piece of information has now cleared up a lot of things.
Not going to check if the birthdate information is correct; but it is amusing.
“Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body, independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own voluntary act. In this relation, then, the new Constitution will, if established, be a FEDERAL, and not a national constitution.” —James Madison
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America... Done... the seventeenth day of September, in the year of our LORD one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven.” —George Washington and the delegates
“The Constitution of the United States is to receive a reasonable interpretation of its language, and its powers, keeping in view the objects and purposes, for which those powers were conferred. By a reasonable interpretation, we mean, that in case the words are susceptible of two different senses, the one strict, the other more enlarged, that should be adopted, which is most consonant with the apparent objects and intent of the Constitution.” —Joseph Story
“Christians endeavoring to create a culture that mirrors their values has been a persistent theme in our nation’s history. People of faith founded our nation and formed its institutions—from its schools to its hospitals. Indeed, religious faith is deeply rooted in our founding documents and has animated every major positive socio-political change our country has experienced. Religious faith provided the impetus behind our struggle for independence, and it was the inspiration for the emancipation and desegregation movements, as well as campaigns for child labor laws and women’s suffrage... [T]he [current] hostility to faith... causes some to argue that it should have no voice in the free marketplace of ideas. But, judging by the numbers of people voting their values, [many disagree], as growing numbers of Americans put principle first, so that neither their votes nor their consciences may ever be lost.” —Gary Bauer
“[A]ll Americans should reflect upon the precious heritage of liberty under law passed on to us by our Founding Fathers. This heritage finds its most comprehensive expression in our Constitution. The framing of the Constitution was an arduous task accomplished in the spirit of cooperation and with dedication to the ideals of republican self-government and unalienable God-given human rights that gave transcendent meaning and inspiration to the American Revolution... The wisdom and foresight of the architects of the Constitution are manifest in the fact that it remains a powerful governing tool to the present day. Indeed, a great British statesman has called it ‘the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.’ For 200 years, people from other lands have come to the United States to participate in the great adventure in self-government begun in Philadelphia in 1787. It is no surprise that knowledge of the Constitution is one of the primary requirements for new citizens... [A]ll citizens should reread and study this great document and rededicate themselves to the ideals it enshrines.”—Ronald Reagan
“Much of the Constitution is remarkably simple and straightforward—certainly as compared to the convoluted reasoning of judges and law professors discussing what is called ‘Constitutional law,’ much of which has no basis in that document... The real question [for judicial nominees] is whether that nominee will follow the law or succumb to the lure of ‘a living constitution,’ ‘evolving standards’ and other lofty words meaning judicial power to reshape the law to suit their own personal preferences.”—Thomas Sowell
I've added a smaller version of this image to my right side control. Both are taken from TimeImmortal.Net.
I haven't had time to coalesce all my thoughts on this, but it's got to be frustrating for the Pope: he's committed to peace and people are using his words to instigate violence. Some are deliberately doing so with what can only be bad intentions and others are reacting out of ignorance. (Equally frustrating is that this is proving his major point: Islam has separated itself from reason.)
Pray for peace.
YouTube - The Presidents of the United States of America - Cleveland
Just because I always enjoyed it. And Cleveland does rock!
Make a personal reflection about this. Very interesting, read until the end...
It is written in the Bible (Galatians 6:7): "Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Here are some men and women who mocked God:
JOHN LENNON:
Some years before, during his interview with an American Magazine, he said: "Christianity will end, it will disappear. I do not have to argue about that. I am certain. Jesus was ok, but his subjects were too simple, Today we are more famous than Him"
(1966). Lennon, after saying that the Beatles were more famous than Jesus Christ, was shot six times.
TANCREDO NEVES (President of Brazil):
During the Presidential campaign, he said if he got 500,000 votes from his party, not even God would remove him from Presidency. Sure he got the votes, but he got sick a day before being made President, then he died.
CAZUZA (Bi-sexual Brazilian composer, singer and poet):
During a show in Canecão ( Rio de Janeiro ), whilst smoking his cigarette, he puffed out some smoke into the air and said: "God, that's for you." He died at the age of 32 of AIDS in a horrible manner.
THE MAN WHO BUILT TITANIC:
After the construction of Titanic, a reporter asked him how safe he said: "Not even God can sink it" The result: I think you all know what happened to the Titanic.
MARILYN MONROE:
She was visited by Billy Graham during a present ation of a show. He said the Spirit of God had sent him to preach to her. After hearing what the Preacher had to say, she said: "I don't need your Jesus". A week later, she was found dead in her apartment.
BON SCOTT:
The ex-vocalist of the AC/DC. On one of his 1979 songs he sang: "Don't stop me, I'm going down all the way, down the highway to hell". On the 19th of February 1980, Bon Scott was found dead, he had been choked by his own vomit.
CAMPINAS/SP IN 2005
In Campinas, Brazil a group of friends, drunk, went to pick up a friend. The mother accompanied her to the car and was so worried about the drunkenness of her friends and she said to the daughter - holding her hand, who was already seated in the car: "MY DAUGHTER, GO WITH GOD AND MAY HE PROTECT YOU."
She responded: "ONLY IF HE (GOD) TRAVELS IN THE BOOT, CAUSE INSIDE HERE IT'S ALREADY FULL"
Hours later, news came by that they had been involved in a fatal accident, everyon e had died, the car could not be recognized what type of car it had been, but surprisingly, the boot was intact. The police said there was no way the boot could have remained intact. To their surprise, inside the boot was a crate of eggs, none were broken.....Boot means trunk.
Many more important people have forgotten that there is no other name that was given so much authority as the name of Jesus. Many have died, but only Jesus died and rose again, and he is still alive. JESUS!!!
Don't tempt God; He just might call your bluff. And He always holds the winning hand.
The lovely Miss Anonymous Opinion pointed out this article in response to my post PROOF: Men Smarter than Women.
Moderate drinkers have been found to be better thinkers than heavy drinkers and those who do not drink at all, according to the Australian National University research. In a study of more than 7000 people aged 20-24, 40-44 and 60-64, participants were asked about their alcohol use, and to perform a series of tests to measure cognition - verbal skills, memory and speed of thinking.
I may have to go do some work on my brain tonight!
"[T]he present Constitution is the standard to which we are to cling. Under its banners, bona fide must we combat our political foes - rejecting all changes but through the channel itself provides for amendments."
-- Alexander Hamilton (letter to James Bayard, April 1802)
Reference: Selected Writings and Speeches of Alexander Hamilton, Frisch, ed. (511)
Good article by George Will on WalMart. (You can see it in today's NewsJournal.
One of whom, a woman pushing a shopping cart with a stoical 3-year-old along for the ride, has a chip on her shoulder about the size of this 141,000 square-foot Wal-Mart. She applied for a job when the store opened in January and was turned down because, she said, the person doing the hiring ``had an attitude.'' So why is the woman shopping here anyway? She looks at the questioner as though he is dimwitted and directs his attention to the low prices of the DVDs on the rack next to her.Sensibly, she compartmentalizes her moods and her money. Besides, she should not brood. She had lots of company in not being hired: More than 25,000 people applied for the 325 openings.
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By lowering consumer prices, Wal-Mart costs about 50 retail jobs among competitors for every 100 jobs Wal-Mart creates. Wal-Mart and its effects save shoppers more than $200 billion a year, dwarfing such government programs as food stamps ($28.6 billion) and the earned-income tax credit ($34.6 billion).People who buy their groceries from Wal-Mart -- it has one-fifth of the nation's grocery business -- save at least 17 percent. But because unions are strong in many grocery stores trying to compete with Wal-Mart, unions are yanking on the Democratic Party's leash, demanding laws to force Wal-Mart to pay wages and benefits higher than those that already are high enough to attract 77 times more applicants than there were jobs at this store.
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Liberals think their campaign against Wal-Mart is a way of introducing the subject of class into America's political argument, and they are more correct than they understand. Their campaign is liberalism as condescension. It is a philosophic repugnance toward markets because consumer sovereignty results in the masses making messes. Liberals, aghast, see the choices Americans make with their dollars and their ballots, and announce -- yes, announce -- that Americans are sorely in need of more supervision by ... liberals
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When liberals' presidential nominees consistently fail to carry Kansas, liberals do not rush to read a book titled ``What's the Matter With Liberals' Nominees?'' No, the book they turned into a best-seller is titled ``What's the Matter With Kansas?'' Notice a pattern here?
Read the whole article.
