March 26, 2008
Wealth, Sewage, and Sewerage.
"Wealth brings affluence; sewage is effluence."
(Source)
Just thought you'd like to know. Although, being a plumber, I do have one further thought to add:
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March 20, 2008
Trial of the Witnesses of the Ressurection of Jesus.
Thomas Sherlock wrote a great book. Here's an excerpt.
"The alterations which have happened in the doctrines and practices of churches, since the Christian religion was settled by those who had an authentick commission to settle it, are quite out of the question, when the inquiry is about the truth of the Christian religion.
Christ and his Apostles did not vouch for the truth of all that should be taught in the church in future times; nay, they foretold and fore warned the world against such corrupt teachers.
It is therefore absurd to challenge the religion of Christ, because of the corruptions which have spread among Christians. The gospel has no more concern with them, and ought no more to be charged with them, than with the doctrines of the Alcoran."
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March 16, 2008
Is anyone else having a problem with Firefox when they try to access Chattablogs?
Just curious. 'Cause I am.
I can only access Chattablogs with IE--which I dislike--and then can only do so every once and a while.
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March 12, 2008
Chesterton Thursdays, VII.
"What I venture to criticize in certain men, whom some call scientists and I call materialists, is their perpetual use of Mythology. One half of what they say is so true as to be trite; the other half of what they say is so untrue as to be transparent. But they cover both their platitudes and their pretenses by an elaborate parade of legendary and allegorical images. I read this in some remarks on Darwinism by one of the last surviving Darwinians:
"Among the individuals of every species there goes on, as Malthus had realised, a competition of struggle for the means of life, and Nature selects the individuals which vary in the most successful direction."
Now when men of the old religions said that God chose a people and raised up a prophet, at least they meant something; and they meant what they said. They meant that a being with a mind and a will used them in an act of selection. But who is Nature, and how does she, or he, or it, manage to select anything or anybody? All that the writer actually has to say is that some individuals do emerge when other individuals are extinguished.
It hardly needed either Darwin or Darwinians to tell us that.
But Nature selecting those that vary in the most successful direction means nothing whatever, except that the successful succeed...this tautological truism is wrapped up in clouds of mythology, by the introduction of a mythical being whom even the writer regards as a myth."
(Myths and Metaphors, by G. K. Chesterton. Originally published in The Illustrated London News, 26th January 1929.)
I couldn't agree more.
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November 22, 2007
Co-op America's National "Green Pages."
Found the National Green Pages site here.
Money quote?
"The nation's only directory of screened and approved green businesses."
(Top of browser)
But one certainly wonders: Who screens the screeners? Who approves the approvers?
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November 06, 2007
BLASPHEMY!
"While I was in France during the War our boys used to call the United States "God's country". Let us make it and keep it "God's country"."
(Source.)
Well it is blasphemy in our society...depending on who you talk to, anyways.
UPDATE:
(Found one more...)
"For that we can be thankful to the God who watches over America."
*This is only a joke. For although my eyes did discover the quote cited, I do not seriously intend to tip the hat in my direction.
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"The days of the seeking of mere party advantage through the misuse of public power are drawing to a close."
IF only that were true...
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October 25, 2007
Interesting quotations from what I have read.
"I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties."
(Emphasis Mine; Here.)
"Patrick Henry, long a friend of Baptists, had urged Baptist ministers to perform marriages without approval of the law. He believed that the best way to have the unjust law repealed was to ignore it."
(Here.)
Did you know who said this next one? (He told me the secret.)
"The Cretans, always liars, evil beasts, idle bellies!" (Here; or here.)
Also from Titus:
"God who cannot lie (ὁ ἀψευδὴς θεὸς : ho apseudēs theos). 'The non-lying God'." (From his word pictures.)
Wow. What a thought.
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October 20, 2007
THE SKY IS FALLING! THE SKY IS FALLING!
Really. It is.
(Image source.)
"Scientists believe global warming might get worse if the oceans soak up less of the greenhouse gas."
Saturday, 20 October 2007, 04:50 GMT 05:50 UK
(Emphasis Mine; Source BBC News)
Those emphases? Key words baby.
Just ignore this next quote. Seriously. Ignore it. Don't read it.
"Thick Arctic ice may be the reason for a precipitous drop in this spring's two-month gray whale count at Point Piedras Blancas."
ASSOCIATED PRESS 7:59 a.m. June 6, 2007
(Source, and here.)
I told ya not to read it.
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What is this world coming to when you can't burn Guy Fawkes in effigy?
I mean, seriously?!
"Slough Borough Council claimed the polluting effects of smoke would go against its environmental policies, but said it would still display fireworks [cough--ahem: cause everyone knows fireworks are grrreat for the environment]...The £4 a ticket Slough Firework Spectacular will now offer a funfair, trapeze show and an Elvis Presley tribute act instead of the traditional bonfire and burning of Guy Fawkes...He said the council wanted to promote a "cleaner, safer, greener" attitude and to "encourage residents to do what they can to improve the local and global environment"." (Emphasis Mine; Source BBC News.)
Oh, that emphasized line? That is precisely the problem.
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September 17, 2007
R. L. Stevenson's Prayer; More silly educators; Illegal Abortions; Baylor, Dembski; etc. Just a few items, that's all.
First off, a nice prayer by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Next, some apparently crazy teacher tries to get parents to renounce their citizenship. (Found here.)
Next, Michelle Armesto was coerced into having an abortion; 'cause it's all about a woman's right to choose, you know.
And finally, Bill Dembski made Baylor faculty angry by disagreeing with the quite obviously false theory that humans evolved from mud. (Okay, okay. Common gene pool. Whatever.) Found at Uncommon Descent.
Oops. Almost forgot the best one: A mother gives up her life for that of her unborn child. Bet you won't find too many liberated women doing that.
Adieu.
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September 01, 2007
Just one more reason not to give your pet cocaine and benzodiazepines.
There is more to this story, but I'm not allowed to "re-write" or "publish" anything "directly" or "indirectly." So I won't.
Even if this story were about a cat, for example, I couldn't tell you. And I'm not.
I'm so nervous after reading the prohibition, that I scarce know whether or not to link to the story. Just reading "their" story might upset "them." I don't know. For that matter, I don't even know who "they" are; and neither should you.
All you need to know:
1. This is a story; might be false, might be true.
2. This story might be news.
2a. But it might not.
3. Don't ask or tell anyone about "their" story: they don't want anyone to know.
--most important--
4. Don't ask who "they" are; or if "they" like cats.
"Copyright AFP 2007, AFP stories and photos shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium." (Found here)
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Hilliard Davidson High School "suck" prank: Mastermind suspended.
"A high school student has been suspended after tricking the fans of a rival school's American football team into holding up signs that together spelled out "We Suck"." (Source: BreitBart.com)
This is funny. This is genius. But surely it's not worthy of suspension. Who knows, maybe they really do "suck" if they fell for it? LOL! Anyway here's the clip.
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