blocking the streets to haredi neighborhoods and physically striking out at gay businesses and venues that are open on the SabbathCute. Isn't it strange how gay Jews marching in a parade is tolerated more in Birmingham, AL than in Jerusalem? Sure, there are protesters, but they don't throw feces or destroy businesses.
"I quizzed Miller, with my colleague Lara Jakes Jordan of the Associated Press, about the emergence of Al Qaeda's Jewish-American spokesman, known as "Azzam al-Amriki," who grew up in California, converted to Islam, was recruited by Al Qaeda and was indicted last year in Los Angeles for treason and giving material support to terrorism.
Read more about the FBI's view of Gadahn at the Daily News' Mouth of the Potomac Blog."
The Greyhound Rescue float (Egyptian themed) from the parade...such beautiful, magnificent animals!
I now patron Firehouse Subs, for their support of dog rescue and for their somehow getting an antique fire engine for the parade.
A view of Caldwell Park, one of the 3 Highland Parks, 2 of which were packed on this occasion (the third, Rushton, is too "hilly," but sits beside the only place that makes a margarita I can drink, Rojo). There were bands, vendors, and lots and lots of cute doggies. They even had a turtle rescue group. It was all I could do to not adopt a dog, and one of my neighbors did just that: a very cute, criminally emaciated, abandoned--at the festival--yellow lab mix with the temper of the most loving human imaginable (the mere semblance to whom she had probably never been exposed until Saturday). By the way, this is half a block from my apartment! I [heart] Historic Highland Park!
While I didn't adopt a dog, I did take my niece, whose momma put her in a yellow sun dress.
I'm making out my exam. I, of course, go off on tangents while fact checking and read about people & events that I'm interested in. That's what we do. I've always wondered about John C. Breckenridge. He was VP under Buchanan and the Southern Democrat who lost to Lincoln in 1860. I always kinda wondered why he was never considered for Confederate leadership, since he had been right there in D.C. I knew that he became a Confederate General and was at Shiloh. Well he was from Kentucky, which is why he was probably not considered for civilian leadership, and he was only 35! when elected VP. He was heavily involved in the fighting, and actually did become CSA Sec. of War in early 1865. He tried to bring an end to the thing and of note he made sure the Confederate archives in Richmond were captured intact by Union troops. He fled the country to avoid treason charges and then came back after being pardoned and was critical of the Klan. Okay, run-of-the-mill history geek stuff. Then it gets fun. I learned that his grandson was an actor, none other than John C. 'Bunny' Breckenridge, who played the Ruler in Plan 9 from Outer Space for his friend and fellow cross-dresser Ed Wood. Of course, Bunny was played by one of my all-time favorite actors, Bill Murray, in Ed Wood. I love the internet and wikipedia rules. Back to the test-making salt mine.
37) This Kentuckian was one of the most influential politicians of the early to mid-1800’s. He was a strong nationalist who served as Speaker of the House, Senator, and Secretary of State. He was a founder of the Whig Party and five times an unsuccessful presidential candidate. He was known as the ‘Great Compromiser’ for settling difficult disagreements between North and South.
If you gave Jerry Falwell an enema, he'd be buried in a matchbox."With room to spare.
Pope Benedict XVI told Latin American bishops in Brazil that American Indians had been "silently longing" to become Christians 500 years ago.I'm sure those American Indians were "silently longing" while violently dying at the hands of Catholic conquistadors. What will he say next, that the Jews had it coming?
I think he was a conscious charlatan and bully and fraud.
And I think, if he read the Bible at all -- and I would doubt that he could actually read any long book of -- at all -- that he did so only in the most hucksterish, as we say, Bible-pounding way.
In my quest to to assimilate all things sci-fi I'm aiming to read as many Nebula & Hugo winners as I can. This weekend the 2007 Nebulas came out, so we've got new entries on the list - 2007 Winners & Nominees and yearly winners. For good measure, just about every Science Fiction award you can think of is here.
I have always been against torture. To me, our country should be beyond it morally, and I never felt that it could result in positive intelligence.
(from experience). When I look at a human, I know that it came from a union of a sperm and egg. Analogizing randomly mutating replicators to cans is like comparing apples and...cans. Whenever creationists pull this kind of argument out, I simply shrug. It's one that wouldn't pass muster in a junior high debate team match, and it's been refuted so many times that all defenders of science are exhausted repeating the obvious: life produces offspring genetically different from itself, cans/watches/747's/cars do not.
say that any can has a single "designer" is obviously ridiculous, and the analogy to this design process would raise some uncomfortable propositions for evangelicals (ex, how do you know we were designed by a single designer and not by committee? Wouldn't the latter, given all of our flaws, make more sense?). Evolution is a design process as well: species change due to survival and reproductive advantages that naturally arise among genetically different offspring. Again, the analogy is so piss-poor, so egregiously illogical, one wonders how its proponents can get through the day without their brain leaking out of their nose.
no less absurd. Perhaps Mr. Comfort should read what scientists understand about how life arose, and then how it evolved after that, before he starts telling other people how ridiculous science's explanation is.
For most people their guilty pleasures are the things we have no qualms about liking best: horror movies, scifi novels, bourbon, and our various proclivities. A guilty pleasure I admit to is Groundhog Day. I love that movie, unequivocally. 
