It’s funny how words change their meanings over time — or, perhaps, more accurately, how our perceptions of certain words change over time. Take the word “Protestant” for example. It is based upon the word “protest” and everyone knows that this implies being opposed to things. Thus, according to the Roman church’s take on history, [...]
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Protest-ants
Posted in Protestantism, the Uncatholic church on April 30, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Iowa takes a ride on the chaos train
Posted in sodomite politics on April 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Iowa is still celebrating it’s entry into the ‘MODERN’ world this week. The state began issuing marriage licenses to homosexual “couples” (and let it be noted, there is NO mandatory three day waiting period). Ralph Smith, pastor of the Mitaka Evangelical Church (CREC) in Tokyo, Japan, made an observation about this that needs to be [...]
The amazing Leonard
Posted in Uncategorized on April 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Set aside a couple of hours and relish this. Really. It’s worth it.
Leonard Cohen. Live. In London. And hurry. It’s on for this week only.
So cool you’ll have to wipe the frost off your screen.
[Thanks to Remy for finding this.]
The end of Europe
Posted in Uncategorized on April 28, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The video below may be a tad dramatic but in reality it points to a very serious problem for the “Christian West.” Birthrates in Europe have been falling since the 1970s and are now seriously below replacement level. Apart from the high levels of immigration that the European countries have had, they would already be [...]
Man way too high
Posted in Uncategorized on April 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I finally got to see “Man on Wire” and am stilled stunned by it. It’s hard for me to imagine someone actually doing what Philippe Petit did in 1974 in New York. Amazing. I don’t think I could have even looked over the edge of the North Tower, much less stepped out on a quarter-inch [...]
Well, imagine that
Posted in I'm a far rightwing arch-liberal, help I'm surrounded by rightwing extremists on April 23, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I guess I are a rightwing extremist now. Officially. According to the Dept. of Homeland Security’s recently declassified report on “Rightwing Extremism” the list of scary people just got a lot longer. Look at their description of those who may be rightly classified as “extremists”:
“Rightwing extremism in the United States can be broadly divided into [...]
Calisthenics with words
Posted in Dorothy Parker, ouch on April 22, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Dorothy Parker possessed what was unquestionably one of the quickest minds of any human on the planet. She was a writer and critic for Vogue, Vanity Fair, and the New Yorker, among others. She also wrote a number of screenplays, poetry, and short fiction. Her hilarious reviews, quips, and comebacks are well known. Remy’s [...]
Corrections
Posted in AA "theology" undone, FV lies on April 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
You know things, then you really learn them. Right? How many things have you “known” but it was only later that you realized the importance or significance of them or how true they really were? Ok. One of the things we’ve learned over the past eight years is how impossible it is to keep people [...]
Jordan on worship
Posted in Uncategorized on April 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Jim Jordan talks about worship with Jarrod Richie on the new In Medias Res podcast. Listen to it here.
See-seed
Posted in free at last, let me otta here on April 17, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Texas governor Rick Perry has gone and done it, hasn’t he? He actually had the audacity to say that Texas just might “secede” from the union if enough Texans got fed up with the Federal Guvmit. And in saying this out loud, in public, Gov. Perry has caused a huge case of the vapors on [...]
Wish I was . . .
Posted in Uncategorized on April 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
a Kellogg’s corn flake
floatin in my bowl, makin movies
Whatta deal
Posted in Uncategorized on April 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Now, this is something. Till midnight tonight you can order any Athanasius Press publication for only $5.00 apiece! It’s a “Tax Relief” special sale.
Nice.
Happy fourth day of Easter!
Tax Day 2009
Posted in IR a Slave, tax man on April 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
You probably can’t read the form to the left (it’s available online so no big loss). This is the first 1040 form issued by our federal government in 1913 — the very first year Americans paid this thing called the “income tax.” Note the tax rates:
1% on income over $20,000 and not exceeding $50,000
2% [...]
O Antwerp, let’s dance
Posted in dancing in public, do-re-me on April 14, 2009 | 3 Comments »
This is fun. 200 people take over Antwerpen’s Centraal Station in Belgium and dance to Julie Andrew’s “Do-Re-Mi” song. It’s a publicity stunt for a new reality show, but it’s nice idea — the kind of thing that, once you see it, makes you wish you could have been there (and I don’t even like [...]
The 40 days of Easter
Posted in Uncategorized on April 12, 2009 | 3 Comments »
N.T. Wright in his book Surprised by Hope, refers to how the Church largely disregards Easter. Christmas is celebrated with a vengeance, but Easter? Nah, Easter gets a day, a morning. Some candy in a basket, maybe a new dress and shoes. And this is as true in so-called “liturgical” churches as it is in [...]
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