Get Your Calf Fries!
Today is the day of the 27th Annual World's Largest Calf Fry Festival & Cook-off.
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To Late for Terri
I find this almost sickening to hear; I wonder what Dr. Dean's opinion of this is:
According to all the tests, the young woman was deep in a "vegetative state" -- completely unresponsive and unaware of her surroundings. But then a team of scientists decided to do an unprecedented experiment, employing sophisticated technology to try to peer behind the veil of her brain injury for any signs of conscious awareness.
Without any hint that she might have a sense of what was happening, the researchers put the woman in a scanner that detects brain activity and told her that in a few minutes they would say the word "tennis," signaling her to imagine she was serving, volleying and chasing down balls. When they did, the neurologists were shocked to see her brain "light up" exactly as an uninjured person's would. It happened again and again. And the doctors got the same result when they repeatedly cued her to picture herself wandering, room to room, through her own home.
"I was absolutely stunned," said Adrian M. Owen, a British neurologist who led the team reporting the case in today's issue of the journal Science. "We had no idea whether she would understand our instructions. But this showed that she is aware."
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To the world's wounded spirits: 'Come unto me'
The following essay was written by Megan Gilligan, a graduate of Broken Arrow High School in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. While in high school, Megan was a contributing writer for the "Satellite" section of the Tulsa World newspaper. Megan's essay was published by the Tulsa World. It is repeated here verbatim.
A few months ago, my childhood friend Aaron killed himself. Though I don't know all of the details surrounding Aaron's death, I know some of those surrounding his life.
When I first met Aaron, we were in the sixth grade. He painted his fingernails, wore Nine Inch Nails T-shirts and used eyeliner. At that age being different can go one of two ways: the other kids can decide you're either cool and original or weird and a freak. Aaron was kind of stuck in the middle. He had friends who thought he was cool, but the rest of the sixth-grade class found him too strange to socialize with. Either way, he was the weird one.
I liked Aaron though. He was funny and smart and used to throw rulers and markers at my best friend because it made me laugh. He was better at math than anyone I knew and would tie my shoes because he was nice. He was the only boy I ever shared nail polish with, and he used to give me really complex riddles on Mondays and wouldn't tell me the answers until the following Friday.
As the years went by, I saw Aaron grow progressively more distant. He became very introverted, and the light in his eyes started to fade. In the tenth grade he got his girlfriend pregnant and dropped out of school.
While I know that Aaron had friends, I also know that he had a lot of pain. This drove him to heavy drinking and drug use. This drove him to death by his own hand.
I cannot fathom going through life as a wounded spirit. I cannot imagine being so desperately tormented that there is nowhere to turn, no exit door from the agony, the pain, the haunting thought of life being full of suffering forever.
So many people wake up each morning barely clinging to the shirttails of life because all they have to live for is a new day of torture. These are the teased, the tormented, the abused. These are the crippled, the addicts, the sickly. These are the ones who have nowhere to turn, no one to listen, no one to understand. They've been picked on and pushed aside, abandoned and forgotten, left to die or left to live wishing they were dead. In silence they suffer and suffer and suffer.
These are the wounded spirits of the world. Every day we walk by them, we talk to them â€" maybe they're even our friends - and every day while we're going forward through life looking forward to the next day, they're going through life wanting nothing but the end.
Maybe you're a wounded spirit. Maybe you've been bloodied and broken and betrayed by everyone around you. Maybe you've been crippled, and now you're limping, hoping for someone to pull you out of the darkness, to guide you into the world in which everyone else seems to be living, the world exempt from the heartache you've lived.
Or maybe you just know one.
If the latter is the case, then it's your responsibility to respond. If you are fortunate enough to be one of those who does not have to live in emotional agony every second that you're alive, you owe it to those who aren't so lucky to step in and guide their battered soul to safety. It doesn't take much, just an offering of friendship or guidance or help.
But I'm not writing this to those who haven't suffered. I'm writing to those who have. Matthew 11:28-30 says, "Come unto me, all ye that are heavy laden, and I will give you rest" For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. I know that a huge community of people in this area stiffen when anything Biblical is mentioned, particularly due to the religious institutions in this region that have perverted what Christianity is supposed to be.
But Christianity is not what some Bible school or faith preacher tells you it is. Christianity is not preaching one thing from the pulpit while doing another thing from behind a desk. Christianity is love. Christianity is peace. Christianity is refuge and protection from the pain.
But again, I'm not writing this to preach religion. I'm here only to say that when you're a tortured soul, that's not the way it has to always be. There are people who care out there, who can provide shelter from the rain. They are recovered wounded spirits who know what you've been through. And there are those who haven't ever had to live through the anguish you've survived, but they care, and they can help.
So my point in writing this is to ask those tortured beings to find help before help isn't to be found. Life, though it may not seem like it now, is so worth living. My friend Aaron had a future brighter than the sun, but his angle at it was obliterated by clouds, and he never knew what he was capable of. Don't let that be you. Find a solace, find refuge. Find hope before it's too late.
There are many refuges out there. Maybe religion isn't your thing. Maybe you can't imagine putting your faith in anyone or anything else because man has betrayed you so much.
But I have to think that there's something to the One who could take lives so seemingly insignificant and so clearly flawed and make them something great. I have to think that there's something to the One who says He'll give you everything you need if you just love Him.
I have to think this. I have to have to some sort of faith, or I will have nothing to live for. I have to think this, or I will be Aaron. I just wish Aaron would have thought this before he died.
Megan Gilligan, To the world's tortured souls: 'Come unto me'. Tulsa World, Friday, January 3, 2003, D-1.
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The Party of Death 0.5
I started reading Ramesh Ponnuru's, The Party of Death, and I just had to put it down. The discussion of abortion was stomach churning enough--and he had a great chapter on how the religious nuts (real nuts) muddied the debat with Terri Schiavo--but the chapter on the pro-euthenasia crowd is simply disgusting. I had know idea that doctors were arguing for being able to harvest organs from people if they were brain dead or in a coma....just sick.
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Red, White and Blue
Photo cross-posted at Dodo World
Coming up in Dodo World . . .
Tuesday: Remembering a Soldier of the American Revolution
Thursday: Blame Global Warming On Meat Consumption
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Putting it lightly
Not on the Senate's schedule, however, is a bill allowing taxpayers to underwrite human embryonic stem cell research, a science still in its infancy that could lead to cures for many diseases.
A science still in its infancy? Or a science whose test subjects are still in their infancy?
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How to Abort your Baby 101
ABP pointed this out and I am literally horrified:
For the Women of South Dakota: an Abortion Manual
I understand that you're probably really angry right now. Maybe you're reading a blog expressing that anger -- the anger that your state thinks it knows better than you what to do with your body. Maybe you're anxiously wondering where the nearest abortion clinic is, now that you will have to leave the state to get to one. If you have a serious medical condition, you might be doubling up on birth control methods, leading to a lot of worry and possibly negative side effects.
...The first step is to break the membrane holding the fetus inside. You can feel around with the forceps for it. To get an idea of what each part looks like -- and to see the texture so that you understand better how it will feel -- I recommend looking at books with photographs of first trimester fetuses (personal recommendation for its astonishing photographs: A Child is Born), The membrane should be easily broken with the forceps. Depending on how far along the pregnancy is, varying quantities of clear or pinkish fluid may come from the vagina. As you grasp the sac with your forceps, twist it away so that it detaches. You will now need to remove small pieces of fetal material and membrane from the uterus with the forceps. Some of these pieces will be distinctly identifiable as fetal material. Save the material until the end of the procedure on a piece of plastic, so that you can be sure the entire fetus has been removed. If doing this sounds too ethically challenging, remember that fetuses do not have the capacity to feel actual pain until the third trimester. You are not "hurting" it, and it has no awareness, nor the capacity for awareness, that you are extracting it.
This portion of the abortion procedure should not be particularly painful for the patient.
While you are removing fetal material, you will also be removing pieces of placenta. However, because the placenta is attached to the uterine wall -- and because it is the blood source for the baby -- bleeding may begin at this time. It is imperative that if bleeding begins at this point in the procedure, you do NOT stop. Stopping the procedure and attempting to stanch the bleeding will not work. The bleeding will stop on its own once the placenta is totally removed from the uterus. It may be scary, but keep going.
And that, ladies and gentleman, is THE definition of freedom for liberals: women will never be free unless they can abort their babies.
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Dodo Rant: Say it right, Gringos!
In his post Dems Lose Again In Israel, Aaron reports that Israel's army is going to use llamas as pack animals.
(I wish that Aaron would have named or linked his information source, but that's not the topic of this rant.)
If Aaron's report is correct, then I hope that the people who use the llamas will know the correct way to pronounce llama, because most people in the USA don't know - which is the topic of this rant.
The llama is an animal that is a native of the South American nation of Peru. In case you didn't know, Peru is a Spanish-speaking nation. Actually, it's a Castillano-speaking nation, but most gringos don't know the difference between Castillano and Spanish.
Anyway, there is a funny thing about Spanish-speaking nations. All of the native animals in those nations have Spanish names, and all of their names have Spanish pronunciations. Amazing, isn't it?
It just so happens that the llama is one of those animals. It's name is Spanish, which means that the proper way to say its name is the Spanish way.
Sadly, in the good ol' USA, most gringos (a.k.a. people who have English as their native language) constantly mispronounce the Spanish name llama. To make matters worse, Walt Disney Studios and Nickelodeon Studios are teaching the mispronunciation to children.
Well, my gringo readers, here is a Spanish lesson for you.
In the Spanish language, the LL letter combination is pronounced like a Y, which is why the Spanish word tortilla is pronounced "tore-tee-ya", instead of "tore-tee-la".
Likewise, the proper way to pronounce the Spanish name llama is "ya-ma", not "la-ma".
By the way, during cold weather, it's nice to wear garments made out of llama fur. Last Sunday, my llama-fur sweater kept me warm during church while my pastor complained about the coldness of the worship area.
To close, here is a photo of two natives of Peru. One is a llama. The other is my wife. I'll leave it to you to figure out which is which.
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Just Disgusting
Bodies of fetuses, newborns clog Harare's sewers
Zimbabwe's shortages, inflation blamed for rise in illegal abortions
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) -- The corpses of at least 20 newborn babies and fetuses are found each week in the sewers of Zimbabwe's capital, some having been flushed down toilets, Harare city authorities said, according to state media Friday.
Town Clerk Nomutsa Chideya said the babies' remains were found among a wide variety of waste and garbage cleared by city council workers unblocking sewers and drains in Harare.
"Apart from upsetting the normal flow of waste, it is not right from a moral standpoint. Some of the things that are happening now are shocking," the state Herald, a government mouthpiece, reported Chideya as saying.
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Newspaper Reader Clarifies Abortion Issue
Sometimes a letter to a local newspaper is worthy of being read by a national audience. I believe that the following letter to the Tulsa World is one such letter. The letter's author is responding to an editorial published by the Tulsa World.
Here is the letter in its entirety:
In "Roe at 33: New strategies" (Jan. 22), Tulsa World editorial writer Janet Pearson discussed women being "forced to carry a pregnancy to term," as if they were victims of chance. Almost anyone old enough to get pregnant knows how pregnancy occurs and how to prevent it.
While access to abortion may be limited, access to preventive measures is not. Any woman can obtain birth control free or at low cost through insurance or public health organizations. For unmarried women, abstinence has a 100 percent success rate. Adoption services are also available.
Pregnancy does not make a woman a victim. It is the outcome of an activity, which, in most cases, a woman willingly participated in without taking precautions. Why should an expectant mother be entitled to snuff out the life of her unborn child just because its existence is inconvenient, especially when she had the means to prevent the pregnancy in the first place?
Ms. Pearson believes teens should be entitled to abortion without parental consent. Yet teens need parental consent for other procedures. Telling a parent of a pregnancy is difficult, but why should parents be kept in the dark while society coddles their teens by enabling them to take a perceived easy way out?
Ms. Pearson made abortion sound like the only option for many women while ignoring the dangers, which are numerous. Overturning Roe v. Wade, or even doing away with abortion, would not take choice away from women. Women can choose morality and self control over what feels good for a moment, and if that is too difficult, they can choose to use birth control or give their babies up for adoption. There are plenty of choices available to women besides abortion.
Candace Marra, Mounds
Side Notes:
1)Many readers of the Tulsa World are unaware of the fact that the publisher's mother (and wife of the former publisher) used to serve on the board of directors of Planned Parenthood of Arkansas & Eastern Oklahoma. It would be reasonable to suspect that the newspaper might be biased when it comes to the issue of abortion.
2) The Tulsa World might object to me posting the aforementioned letter in its entirety. However, the letter's author doesn't write for the Tulsa World, and she is the one who possesses all rights to the letter's contents. I suspect that she would welcome her letter being shared with a national audience.
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This is truly heartbreaking
I cannot imagine the grief this mother must be going through right now. Please keep her and her other relatives in your prayers.
News of a crash in which seven children perished so upset their grandfather that he had a massive heart attack and died, the children's adoptive mother said.
"I lost my daddy tonight," Barbara Mann said Wednesday. "My dad died of a massive heart attack tonight over all this. He lost all seven of his grandkids ... I can't deal with this."
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Abortion Polls
Look at how bizarre these poll statistics are:
So almost 2/3 of Americans believe abortion is murder. But even more believe that they shouldn't have a say in the law regarding abortion.
My opinion? This smacks of the same mentality regarding slavery and Jim Crow. Most people were against it, but none had the motivation or conviction to change it. I used to be pro-choice...but now I don't believe a woman has a right to have an abortion unless her life is at danger. Strech marks, finances, adultery, sluttery and looking good in that dress could never excuse this:
[Do not click below if you are squeemish; I show a picture of an actual aborted fetus to demonstrate]
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The Dodo asks . . .
If “Con” is the opposite of “Pro”, then is Congress the opposite of Progress?
[A Russian college professor visiting the USA actually asked this question.]
Why should we care what former presidential nominees think? Didn’t they lose at the ballot box because their ideas were rejected by voters?
Are Hollywood celebrities relevant to anything that is truly important?
Do the people who vote for Ted Kennedy ever get a sick feeling whenever they visit Chappaquiddick?
Why is Ted Kennedy the only person to know about the Goldwater presidency?
Why can’t a person buy a single package of hot dogs coming in the same quantity as a single package of hotdog buns?
Have Florida Democrats admitted that George W. Bush won the 2000 presidential election, or are they still re-counting votes?
Why does Harry Belafonte have to run around bad mouthing President Bush? Why can’t he do what other has-been celebrities do and become a cast-member on Hollywood Squares?
Do you know the difference between a big-spending congressional Democrat and a big-spending congressional Republican? [Pause] Me neither.
What is the government of Mexico doing to improve the lives of Mexicans – besides telling Mexicans how to illegally cross the U.S border?
Being that Pat Robertson keeps putting his foot in his mouth, has he considered washing his feet with sugar-water?
Do any of the people at the Democratic Underground have primary physicians who aren’t pediatricians?
Isn’t the word “filibuster” the politically-correct word for “tantrum”?
What if the hokey-pokey really is what it’s all about?
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Drivers With Bad Attitudes
Last year, cartoonist Chip Sansom of The Born Loser illustrated one reason why it is often a pain in the rump to drive anywhere.
Take a look at the following episode of The Born Loser and see if you can detect what is wrong with Brutus Thornapple:
Here is what is wrong:
[If you are interested in this commentary, then click here to read the rest of it.]
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Dodo's Blog (Stardate 2006.01.02) - Pray For Thy Foes
The following is a repeat of a post from last year. I believe that the post will pertain to any arguments made this year by people of faith. The post is irrelevant to anyone who is an atheist.
Pray For Thy Foes
During the heat of an argument, it is nothing unusual to feel frustrated about one’s inability to convince another party that the party has made an error in logic.
Sometimes, it seems as if the other party is immune to logic.
Even if all parties adhere to the same paradigm, the other party may continue to defy logic.
One party may feel bewildered about the apparent insanity on the part of the other party.
There is an answer to the bewilderment.
[To read the rest of this commentary, click here.]
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Intelligent Design & Evolution Theory
Recently, U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III ruled “that a Pennsylvania school board violated the Constitution in requiring discussions of intelligent design in ninth-grade biology classes” [Info Source]. This ruling will not stop the feud pertaining to Intelligent Design and Evolution Theory. The irony is that proponents of Intelligent Design aren’t actually challenging Evolution Theory.
In order for the irony to be understood, an explanation of Evolution Theory is needed.
When stripped of the excess baggage that has been added to it over the years, Evolution Theory is summed up in the following two sentences:
A genetic population evolves whenever new genetic data is added to that population. New genetic data is added either by cross-breeding or by mutations.
That’s really all there is to Evolution Theory. It is nothing more than an explanation of what causes life forms to evolve.
Evolution Theory is demonstrated to be accurate whenever dog breeders produce a new breed of dog, such as when the monks at the Monastery of Bernard de Menthon cross-bred previously-existing dogs in order to produce the breed of dog call the Saint Bernard. The accuracy of Evolution Theory is demonstrated by the rise of antibiotic-resistant infections as the result of mutating bacteria.
Evolution Theory, as described here, isn’t disputed by proponents of Intelligent Design. Instead, ID proponents are disputing the theory of common descent, which is a theory about the evolutionary events that have taken place during the course of natural history.
Sadly, scientists and science teachers have done a piss poor job of explaining to the general public the difference between the two theories. As a result, Evolution Theory keeps being attacked by mistake.
In case you are wondering . . .
1) Evolution Theory doesn’t contradict the Second Law of Thermodynamics. Evolution Theory pertains to living organisms, which are open systems. The Second Law of Thermodynamics pertains to closed systems. Comparing Evolution Theory to the Second Law of Thermodynamics is like comparing apples to oranges.
2) The theory of natural selection isn’t the same thing as Evolution Theory, although the former theory is also confused with the latter. According to the theory of natural selection, the species best equipped to survive in an environment is the species most likely to live long enough to reproduce. When an environmental change takes place, the species best equipped for the change will become the dominant species, while species ill equipped for the change will most likely die out. In other words, the environment (a.k.a. Nature) selects what species will survive.
3) Evolution Theory doesn’t explain how life began. The theory of abiogenesis is the theory about how life began.
4) Contrary to what Media members keep saying, Evolution Theory doesn’t require that all mutations be random. British zoologist Richard Dawkins wrote, “It is not critical to the theory that mutation must be random, and it most certainly provides no excuse to tar the whole theory with the brush of randomness.”
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True Colors on Stem Cell Debate
I've always argued that many (not all) of the people who are proponents of embryonic stem cell recearch did so to promote abortion; they wanted to find a way to lend virtue to donated aborted embryos--which could save the life of millions of people.
I also believe that many simply heard the forecasts of possible cures and wanted to save lives of people.
This discovery might prove to sort the previous from the former:
University of Louisville researchers have coaxed stem cells from adult mice to change into brain, nerve, heart muscle and pancreatic cells - a discovery that could lead to therapies for a host of human diseases and possibly end the national debate over use of embryonic stem cells.
“We have found a counterpart for embryonic stem cells in adult bone marrow. This could negate the ethical concerns,” said Mariusz Ratajczak, leader of the research team and director of the stem cell biology program at Louisville’s James Graham Brown Cancer Center.
The next step is to replicate the experiment with similar cells identified in adult humans.
“It’s huge. It’s an amazing discovery,” said Ryan Reca, one of the researchers.
If this is true and we can harness the same cures without destroying embryos, people who continue to argue for unrestricted embryonic experimentation will demonstrate their true motives.
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Big Butts, Bed Bugs & Balderdash
Bigger butts are causing a need for longer hypodermic needles. Here is an excerpt from a Reuters story published on Monday November 28, 2005:
Fatter rear ends are causing many drug injections to miss their mark, requiring longer needles to reach buttock muscle, researchers said on Monday. Standard-sized needles failed to reach the buttock muscle in 23 out of 25 women whose rears were examined after what was supposed to be an intramuscular injection of a drug.
Obviously, gluttony in America is getting to be a bigger pain in the butt.
To read the Reuters story, click here.
In the movie Ghostbusters a NYC hotel calls in the Ghostbusters to “discreetly” take care of the hotel’s ghost problem. These days, NYC hotels probably wish that they had ghosts instead of the unwelcome guests that they do have – bed bugs.
The New York Times reports, “Bedbugs are back and spreading through New York City like a swarm of locusts on a lush field of wheat.” According to the newspaper, a NYC hotel was sued by a guest who was bitten by bed bugs while staying in the hotel. [Click here to read the story.]
Your hotel’s guests
Are getting bit on the ass.
Who ya gonna call?
Bug Busters!
FOX News managing editor Brit Hume is fond of using the word balderdash which means nonsense. Balderdash is fitting description of recent statements made by some liberal journalists.
In a recent commentary for the southern Florida newspaper New Times, Bob Norman wrote the following:
The only real intelligence failure came from the Bush administration and the war supporters. There was no proof that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and, weakened and humiliated as he was, the thug was no threat to the United States. . . . The real reason for the war is obvious. It was all about America's role in the Middle East. And that was all about oil, more specifically our desire for it. All the rest of the excuses were just window-dressing.
In their own commentaries Norman Podhoretz, Victor Davis Hanson and Jonah Goldberg expose the fallacies in Bob Norman’s commentary. But, hey, Bob Norman has already made up his mind. So perhaps we shouldn’t confuse him with the facts.
While Bob Norman’s balderdash pertains to the Bush Administration, Tina Brown’s recent balderdash pertains to bloggers. Here is what Brown recently wrote in an article for the Washington Post:
Mainstream Media are trapped in the pincer assaults of the fact-free ethical anarchy of the blogosphere and the cynicism of quarterly profit-driven conglomerates enslaved to entertainment values. No one wants to be caught without a chair when the music stops.
Although the blogosphere contains its share of false data, the blogosphere isn’t fact free. Furthermore, if Brown thinks that bloggers lack ethics, then obviously she hasn’t paid attention to the MSM members who have turned the expression “journalism ethics” into an oxymoron.
Finally, Maureen Dowd continued her own version of balderdash in an interview for Texas Monthly Talks, a program shown on Texas PBS stations. Here are some statements that Dowd made during the interview:
I think men are maybe not biologically suited to hold higher office because women only have lunar tides once a month and Dick Cheney has raging hormones every day. I mean, I just think he’s barking mad. . . He is. Isn’t he? He’s like Darth Vader and he’s led poor Luke Skywalker down the many many bad roads of torture and CIA black holes and many changes in the American identity that, as John McCain says, are not for the better.
If there had been no Monica Lewinsky, there would not be a Senator Clinton, but there probably would be a President Gore.
I mean, the only way Hillary became Senator was by being almost a Lifetime, you know, Channel movie of the week victim. She was, you know, dissed and kind of abused by her husband and so everybody kind of felt sorry for her so they let her be Senator.
First, if a man were to claim that women weren’t biologically suited to hold higher office, then the women of the USA would burn him in effigy. They might even skip the effigy part.
Second, Monica Lewinsky had nothing to do with Al Gore, Jr. losing the 2000 presidential election. Gore lost because of his own words and actions.
Third, Dowd probably lacks the guts to make her claim about Hillary Clinton in her column for the New York Times. If Dowd were to do so, the backlash from New York readers would be so great that Dowd would have to duck and run for cover.
Finally, it is anyone’s guess as to why Dowd verbally attacked Vice-President Cheney. Perhaps Cheney refuses to talk to her. Perhaps Dowd is frustrated by the fact that Cheney has a spouse and she doesn’t. Perhaps New York bed bugs keep biting Dowd on her butt. Who she gonna call? Bug Busters!
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Somewhere over the rainbow . . .
Here is a portion of a huge rainbow that appeared last Saturday near the Dodo's house.
The sight of a huge, beautiful rainbow is something that you can enjoy no matter what your political beliefs are.
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Adventures in Parenting: Shaving
At what age does a young man start shaving?
In the Dodo’s house the age is “4”.
Are you surprised by that age? Well, the Dodo was surprised, too.
Not long ago, the Dodo’s 4-year-old son Dawson overheard someone say that Dawson had a little moustache.
Upon hearing the comment, Dawson proceeded to his dad’s bathroom and located his dad’s razor. You can probably figure out what happened next.
The Dodo is happy to report that the cuts on Dawson’s lips have healed, and the missing half of his moustache has grown back.
The Dodo has assured his son that there is nothing wrong with him having a little moustache at his current age.
Now, should he start developing a 5-o’clock shadow . . . “Hello, National Inquirer?”
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What's Wrong with this Statement?
On the WaPo website, this is the lead sentence to an article about detecting Downs syndrome during the first trimester:
"First-trimester screen can identify fetuses likely to be born with genetic disorder, study finds."
What's logically incorrect about this statement?
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Spousal Notice
In Maryland and DC, if a person chooses to leave his/her 401(k) earnings to someone other than his/her spouse, that person is required to have a notary public certify that the spouse has notified his/her partner that he/she will not receive the savings in event of death.
This is money. Why is it then unconstitutional (in Liberal minds re: Alito) that having an abortion should not require the same notification to a spouse?
I have a right to divorce a wife if she commits adultery. Why should I not have the same right to divorce my wife if she aborts my baby or, worse yet, aborts the child of a man she slept with that wasn't me?
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Fetus Smuggling
Colombian police have found the bodies of three human foetuses hidden in statues destined for the United States.
The discovery was made by officers searching for contraband at Bogota Airport on Tuesday.
The corpses were wrapped in plastic and concealed inside statues of Christian icons, which were smashed open.
Colombian police chief Gen Jord Alirio Varon said the four- to five-month-old foetuses could have been intended for use in Satanic rituals.
Gen Varon said the foetuses were found alongside crucifixes and medals.
He said officials are trying to find out who sent the packages, which came from Barranquilla in Colombia and were destined for Miami in the US.
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A Happy Ending
Here is a story that has a happy ending.
When New Orleans was evacuated, 22-month-old Kaila Hernandez and her 4-year-old brother Angelo became separated from their mother, Amelia Hernandez.
The children, their maternal grandmother and other relatives ended up at Camp Gruber in northeastern Oklahoma. Amelia ended up at the Houston Astrodome.
After 2 weeks of separation, the children and their mother were reunited.
Since then, the entire family has relocated to Tulsa, where they are living in 2 apartments next door to each other.
Photo Credit: Kelly Kerr/Tulsa World
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Will Rogers Says . . .
Will Rogers was a popular entertainer during the first half of the 20th Century. His popularity was due in part to what he said in his syndicated newspaper column titled "Will Rogers Says". Some of the statements that Rogers made are applicable today. Here are some of his statements*:
About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.
Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.
Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate; now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?
Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him "father."
Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.**
Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.
In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.
**These days the expression "drunks and U. S. Senators" is often redundant.
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Three Wishes
"If you had one wish in the world and could ask for absolutely anything from the heart, what would it be?"
This is the question being asked by NBC's new reality show Three Wishes, which is hosted by Amy Grant. The show premieres September 23rd at 9PM Eastern/8PM Central.
The show's website gives viewers the ability to submit their own wishes to the show. (Click here to submit a wish.)
Well, the Dodo has already submitted his wish. It is unlikely that the wish will be granted, but the Dodo submitted it anyway.
What would you wish for?
The following is the Dodo's submission letter to the Three Wishes TV show.
I wish to meet the girl who calls me “Daddy”.
Her name is Ruth, and she is 17 years old.
Ruth and I have never met because she lives in the South American nation of Colombia.
With all of her heart, Ruth believes that I am her real father, and she dreams of meeting me. I would be a poor father to her if I didn’t do everything within my ability to make her wish of meeting me come true. Sadly, I can’t. I recently lost my job, and I have hospital bills to pay. My wife worries about how we will pay those bills. Thus, I am writing to you.
I would like to share with you excerpts from letters that Ruth has sent to me over the years. Her own words explain why I am writing to the Three Wishes program.
December 1994 (first letter): “Dear Sponsor: I am happy because in a far place called Oklahoma lives a person who loves me. I was sad because my father doesn’t think about my needs.”
July 19, 1999: “I wish you could come to visit one day so we could enjoy a sunset together.”
November 12, 1999: “I love you as my very own father as you have been with me so that I can grow up and accomplish my goals. I have a prayer request, and I hope you help me to pray for this. I’d like to travel to your country so that I can meet you and hug you in person.”
October 26, 2000: “In my life I have had moments of sadness because I have not had a paternal figure, and you have been a father to me, and for that reason I love you, because you have seen me grow. May God bless you! When I receive your letters, they encourage me, and they give me happiness.”
February 23, 2001: “I’d love to meet you and your family one day since God has given you as a second family to me, and I am very happy. I pray to God that my dream will become true one day. . . Remember, Dad, that there is a child here in Colombia who loves you.”
June 7, 2005: “Each day I have more reasons to love you; some are the mountains of letters you send with pretty words, that when I just read them I cry; I have never felt anything so pretty in my heart, that fill me with love and safety. . . I have never been tired to thank God for having giving me the best dad in the world.”
There are a couple of facts about me that Ruth doesn’t know, that I want you to be aware of.
First, there was a time in my life when I was so poor that I sold my plasma so that I could afford to sponsor Ruth.
Second, I suffer from chronic depression. My depression has been so severe that on more than one occasion I have had suicidal thoughts. On those occasions, Ruth gave me the will to keep on living. Whenever I wanted to leave this world, I would read Ruth’s letters and remember that Ruth was depending on me. To this day, whenever I feel myself slipping back into depression, I look at Ruth’s photo and immediately recover.
I am not the only person to be blessed by Ruth. Ruth has inspired other people to sponsor children trapped in poverty. Now those children have the means to escape poverty.
Perhaps you won’t think that my wish is deserving of your show’s generosity. However, a girl in Colombia wishes to meet her daddy, and I don’t have the ability to fulfill that wish.
By the way, I blame one of your show’s stars for Ruth becoming my daughter. Back in 1987, I listened to a particular song just because it featured Amy Grant. The song was being used to promote Compassion International. Amy’s involvement with Compassion International inspired me to become involved, also. Thus, I began sponsoring children. That is how Ruth came into my life.
If Three Wishes doesn't grant the Dodo his wish, then can someone send the Dodo an oil lamp with a genie in it?
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Hospital Etiquette
The Dodo recenty spent a few days in a hospital as a patient. During that time, the Dodo observed the behavior of hospital visitors. Some of that behavior was inappropriate. So now the Dodo wishes to point out some things that one should and shouldn't do while visiting a hospital.
#1: Don't use a cell phone!
These days, hospitals have signs posted stating that cell phones are not to be used. Yet, numerous cell phone users ignore the signs. This behavior is - in the words of Captain Hook - bad form.
Cell phones can disrupt the operation of older medical equipment. It would be bad if a heart monitor at a nurses' station malfunctioned because Susie Celluser just had to keep her cell phone on at all times.
So, as an ex-hospital patient, the Dodo is begging you to turn your cell phone off whenever you enter a hospital. Better yet, inquire as to where in the hospital a cell phone may be used. If a patient's room is off limits, then keep your cell phone off while you are in there.
That reminds the Dodo of another rule of hospital etiquette:
#2: If you are visiting a patient who is in a semi-private room, and if there is another patient in the room, then keep your visit short.
The patient you are visiting may be well enough to have visitors, but the patient's roommate may be in bad shape. If you stay too long, then you may prevent the other patient from having needed rest. Plus, the other patient may need moments of privacy that require the absence of visitors.
Besides, the longer you stay, the more you will talk, and the patient in the other bed may not want to hear you give the latest news about your relatives.
#3: Respect the hospital's established visiting hours.Late evening a busy time for hospital personnel, and they can't do their jobs properly if visitors get in the way.
Besides, visitation hours exist so that patients will have the time that they need to rest.
Well, that's the latest from the Dodo's soap box. Now the Dodo wants to get some sleep. If you think that hospital patients get plenty of sleep, then obviously you haven't been a hospital patient.
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The Greasers have returned (Hurray!)
The DVD's debut took place in Tulsa on September 8th.
The Dodo remembers the excitement in Tulsa when Francis Ford Coppola began making his film-version of The Outsiders.
Several of the Dodo's high school classmates attempted to become extras in the movie.
The Dodo was pleased because much of the movie was being filmed in the part of Tulsa where the Dodo lived - the North Side. When the Dodo was in high school, the wealthy Tulsans considered North Side to be the bad side of the city.
Such was the case when Tulsa teenager Susan E. Hinton wrote The Outsiders. Her novel was based on the real-life friction between the rich and poor people of Tulsa.
Today, The Outsiders is required reading in many high schools.
The movie-version of the book is now a cult classic.
The drive-in theater featured in the movie is still in operation. . .
. . . and a 3rd-generation Greaser writes for the Lifelike Pundits.
Photo courtesy of The Outsiders Official Website.
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Giving to Charity
Don’t know which charities to trust?
Charity Navigator provides its list of 4-Star charities. To access the list, click here.
The American Institute of Philanthropy lists its own top-rated charities. To access this list, click here.
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Harvard Deals Blow to Abortion Lobby, Frist
Most of us know the agenda in the media: normalize abortion by making it virtuous to have one. "I am doing my part to science by giving my unborn child to the scientist to create cures."
They always try to confuse the public; when there is a breakthrough using adult stem cells, they just say "stem cells" to hide that all the treatments (thus far) have come from adult stem cells.
But the goal remains: we must destroy embryos--no matter the cost so abortion on demand will always be legal.
Well, looks like our brillian researchers at Harvard might piss off the Nan Arons of the world and pulled the carpet out of Frist's and Democrat's 2008 red herring:
WASHINGTON — Harvard (search) scientists say they have fused an adult skin cell with an embryonic stem cell in a potentially dramatic development that could lead to the creation of useful stem cells without first having to create and destroy human embryos.
Preliminary results of the groundbreaking research were disclosed Sunday evening on the Science magazine (search) web site and the Harvard researchers arranged to discuss their findings in more detail on Monday.
They said they were able to show in their early research that the fused cell "was reprogrammed to its embryonic state."
"If future experiments indicate that this reprogrammed state is retained after removing the embryonic stem cell DNA — currently a formidable technical hurdle — the hybrid cells could theoretically be used to produce embryonic stem cells lines that are tailored to individual patients without the need to create and destroy human embryos," said a summary of the research reported on the Science site.
That could lead to creation of stem cells without having to use human eggs or make new human embryos in the process, thereby sidestepping much of the controversy over stem cell research.
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A Battle of Another Kind
While members of the U.S. military battle terrorists, 5% to 8% of American adults battle another enemy that causes them misery on a daily basis.
The name of that enemy is Depression.
Depression isn’t an illness to take lightly. The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill reports the following:
Unlike normal emotional experiences of sadness, loss, or passing mood states, major depression is persistent and can significantly interfere with an individual’s thoughts, behavior, mood, activity, and physical health. Among all medical illnesses, major depression is the leading cause of disability in the U.S. and many other developed countries.
Chronic depression has a financial cost. Dr. Paul Kettl reports the following:
Depression is not only common, it is also costly. In 1990, it was estimated that depression in the United States cost $43.7 billion; this included direct treatment costs of $12.4 billion for medication and physician time and indirect costs of $31.3 billion for decreased productivity and increased mortality and morbidity. Furthermore, because patients suffering from undiagnosed depression often complain of a variety of physical ailments and search for relief for vague symptoms from their primary care physicians, their overall medical costs are also likely to increase.
The National Institute of Mental Health reports the following as symptoms of depression:
- Persistent sad, anxious, or "empty" mood
- Feelings of hopelessness, pessimism
- Feelings of guilt, worthlessness, helplessness
- Loss of interest or pleasure in hobbies and activities that were
once enjoyed, including sex
- Decreased energy, fatigue, being "slowed down"
- Difficulty concentrating, remembering, making decisions
- Insomnia, early-morning awakening, or oversleeping
- Appetite and/or weight loss or overeating and weight gain
- Thoughts of death or suicide; suicide attempts
- Restlessness, irritability
- Persistent physical symptoms that do not respond to treatment, such
as headaches, digestive disorders, and chronic pain
If you recognize these symptoms in your own afflictions, then please seek medical help.
If you come into daily contact with someone suffering from depression, then please be sensitive to that person’s medical condition.
A person with chronic depression may look healthy on the outside, but the person may be a complete wreck on the inside.
The Dodo knows all about being a wreck on the inside, because the Dodo has chronic depression, and lately the illness has been getting the better of him.
Depression is an enemy that needs to be fought. Thankfully, the battle against depression is one battle that lacks protesters.
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Comedy Break: The Age of the Dodo
Recent events have caused the Dodo to question how old he is.
The first event was the loss of the Dodo’s last baby tooth.
I kid you not.
My last baby tooth stayed in my mouth because there was never an adult tooth to replace it. Finally, in July 2005 the baby tooth decided to fall out of my head and join the Tooth Fairy.
Normally, a person loses all baby teeth sometime prior to entering puberty. Being that I have just lost my last baby tooth, logic dictates that I am still a child. Being that all my favorite TV shows are cartoons, then I must be a child.
Wrong. I can’t be a child. I just looked at a diploma that hangs on my wall. The diploma says that I graduated from college last year. Well, it is traditional for a person to enter college at the age of 18 and then graduate 4 years later. Since my diploma says that I graduated last year, then instead of being a child, I must be age 23.
No. That age can’t be correct. My wife just told me that she and I have to buy school supplies for our 4-year-old son Dawson. It is common for an American college graduate to start a family after leaving college. If I started a family right after leaving college, then my age has to be in the upper 20s.
Oops! That isn’t correct, either. I just received a letter from Ruth, the girl who calls me “Daddy”. In the letter, Ruth says,”I will turn into an adult soon, and I’m happy. . . What do you think about your girl turning into a woman?”
No, no. I can’t be old enough to have a daughter who is about to turn 18. I just can’t be.
Wait! Ruth has something else to say to me. In her letter, Ruth tells me that her 21-year-old sister Lizbe considers me to be her daddy, too.
So, if I am the daddy of a 21-year-old woman, then I must be in my mid-40s.
Such an age can’t be correct, because just recently I was placing my last baby tooth underneath my pillow.
This situation is confusing for the Dodo. Hence, I asked my wife what age she thinks I am. She replied, “Considering how you act, I’d say that you should be attending Dawson’s class.”
So there you have it. The Dodo’s age is unknown because the Dodo has fallen victim to the Peter Pan Syndrome, meaning that the Dodo has failed to grow up. There is only one place suitable for a person like the Dodo – Washington, D.C. There the Peter Pan Syndrome is an epidemic.
I wonder if the Tooth Fairy ever visits Washington, D.C.
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Gayle and Grief
Gayle discusses Cindy Sheehan's spectacle in Crawford, TX. She shares some moving personal experiences, but in the end logic prevails:
The President of the United States, George W. Bush, does not OWE Cindy Sheehan a further meeting. He views it as his duty as commander-in-chief to meet with the families of all who die in Iraq and in Cindy Sheehan’s case, he has already done so. As an American citizen, I do not want to see this woman (and I understand that she is grieving) behaving like a braying jackass in Crawford, Texas for all the world to see – and for the benefit of the very people who actually killed her son and who are relishing the embarrassment she is causing to the President of the United States.
I do not want her feeding the already outsized egos and delusions of the Michael Moore characters with which she has surrounded herself. I don’t want to see her doing this. But she is an American citizen and it is her right to do it. The press is giving this grieving mother’s foolishness way more attention than it deserves, but again, that is their right.
We must respect the fact that this woman IS in horrendous pain. But we also can hold Cindy Sheehan to the same standards of behavior vis-à-vis the President of the United States that we would expect from any other person. That is, she must speak and behave with respect about and to the man that the MAJORITY OF AMERICANS have elected to lead us. We can and should expect her to quit wasting our time, and the President’s time, with her demands and tantrums although how we can communicate that to her is a question I can’t answer.
If she truly wants this war to end, then it might be more productive (for everyone) if she allowed the President of the United States to focus his attention on resolving the situation in Iraq instead of stroking her ego or feeding the agenda of her new “pals” (haven’t Michael Moore and George Soros done ENOUGH damage already) whose interest is not in her grief and pain but is instead on their “hate-America” agenda.
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Schiavo Wants MORE MONEY
This guy is just plain sick. He couldn't kill her soon enough to keep the money he won in a lawsuit to care for her because doctors and nurses, well, kept caring for her.
Money, money, money. The love of money is the route of all evil.
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Hypocrisy on Display from Abortion Activists
Naral released its hit piece today on Judge John Roberts; we are still waiting to hear from Senator Kennedy to condemn this attack on a sitting justice.
Naral concludes that Judge Roberts endorses abortion clinic bombings by supporting the First Amendment. This is rich (click picture to view ad):
"We believe in a culture of personal freedom and personal responsibility. As an advocacy organization, it is our job to let the American people know that John Roberts's record demonstrates hostility toward these core values," said Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America. "This ad showing a disturbing part of Roberts' record is even more important since the White House decided to withhold critical information about Roberts from the public." Keenan was joined at the press conference by Emily Lyons, the former director of nursing at the New Woman All Women Healthcare Clinic in Birmingham, Alabama, who survived anti-choice violence when a bomb exploded outside the clinic, resulting in the death of a police officer. After undergoing more than 20 surgeries for the injuries she sustained, Ms. Lyons has been a tireless advocate for reproductive health issues and against clinic violence. Lyons is featured in the ad and spoke at the press conference. The ad focuses on Roberts' amicus brief in 1991 on the side of the notorious Operation Rescue, convicted clinic bomber Michael Bray, and others in the Supreme Court case Bray v. Alexandria Women's Health Clinic, as well as his 1992 efforts in a U.S. District Court to lift an injunction against Operation Rescue. The defendants in the Bray case included violent anti-choice activists Randall Terry, founder of Operation Rescue; Michael Bray, who had been convicted for his involvement in 10 bombings at health centers in the 1980s; and Patrick Mahoney, a consultant to Operation Rescue. Roberts argued the case before the Supreme Court and said that Operation Rescue's unlawful behavior did not amount to discrimination against women. "In the four years before John Roberts argued Bray vs. Alexandria Women's Health Clinic in front of the Supreme Court, anti-choice radicals were responsible for at least 48 bombings and arsons in 24 states, along with 57 acid attacks, more than 4,000 disruptive acts such as bomb threats, harassing calls and hate mail," said Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America. "I want to be very clear that we are not suggesting Mr. Roberts condones or supports clinic violence. I'm sure he finds bombings and murder abhorrent. But still his ideological view of the law compelled him to go out of his way to argue on behalf of someone like Michael Bray, who had already been convicted of a string of bombings." Keenan said the ad asked Americans to let their Senators know the nation's highest court should concern itself first with defending our personal freedoms, not side with those who would attack them. "With the Senate in recess this month, we want to make sure this debate isn't confined to the Washington Beltway, but engages all the American people. The 65% of Americans who want Roe v. Wade protected must have their say," Keenan said. "We want mainstream America's voices to be heard."
Washington, DC - NARAL Pro-Choice America, the nation's leading advocate for personal privacy and a woman's right to choose, launched a nationwide television ad campaign drawing attention to one of the most disturbing episodes in Supreme Court nominee John Roberts' career - the brief he filed siding with groups like Operation Rescue and other anti-choice extremists who use bombings and other forms of intimidation against women, doctors, and nurses at women's health clinics.
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Observations About Life (Part 2)
Sometimes silence is fool's gold.
There is no freedom of religion where there is no separation of Church and State.
The carnal man rejects truth when truth requires change.
One is not required to accept another person's behavior in order to treat that person humanely.
To the carnal man, being comfortable is more important than being right.
It does not take courage to be in the majority.
Nobody ever won a trophy for being a spectator.
No matter how beautiful a rose is, its thorns still hurt.
A person without a moral compass cannot judge right from wrong.
Many a dead-end road is smooth.
The highest office on earth is the office of parent.
Roads to mountain tops often pass through valleys.
The carnal man follows the leader blindly.
God alone is indispensable.
A lie spoken with eloquence is still a lie.
More Observations About Life:
Part 1
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Pray For Thy Foes
During the heat of an argument, it is nothing unusual to feel frustrated about one’s inability to convince another party that the party has made an error in logic. Sometimes, it seems as if the other party is immune to logic. Even if all parties adhere to the same paradigm, the other party may continue to defy logic.
One party may feel bewildered about the apparent insanity on the part of the other party. There is an answer to the bewilderment.
Roughly 2000 years ago a man named Paul wrote about the source of much of the conflict between people.
Our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.*
The idea that something supernatural may be driving human conflict will probably be rejected by people who adhere to ontological naturalism. Yet, to people who believe in the existence of supernatural entities, the idea has merit.
Suppose that a supernatural entity were fueling human conflicts. If such were the case, then human efforts would not be enough to end the conflicts. A superior supernatural entity would have to overpower the supernatural entity that is causing the trouble.
If such a case were for real, then people of faith would need to add prayer to their arsenal. During human conflicts, people of faith would have to pray to their god and ask their god to deliver the other human party from the influence of the malevolent supernatural entity.
Perhaps the aforementioned case is for real. Perhaps a supernatural party is influencing human conflicts. Perhaps this supernatural entity is the one known by the name Satan. If so, then people who are on the correct side of an argument need to stop thinking that their alleged “superior logic” is all that they need to win the argument. People on the correct side of an argument need to refrain from thinking that they are somehow superior to the people with whom they are arguing. Such thinking is nothing but arrogance.
If a supernatural party is causing a conflict, then arrogance needs to be replaced with prayer for all people involved in the conflict. The first prayer needed is the prayer for humility on the part of the person who is praying. Humility may not win an argument in the short term, but humility will win a person respect.
When your life is over, it won’t matter how many argument that you have won. What will matter is how many people respect you. If your foes respect you, then you really haven’t been defeated. Satan has.
*Quote Source: Ephesians 6:12 (NIV)
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Not so funny...
ABP points us to this horrid ad unleashed after Sandi's resignation...
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Princeton University sells book On Bullshit
On Bullshit is the name of a book that has been published by Princeton University Press. The book's author is Harry G. Frankfurt, a Princeton philosophy professor.
The book has an obvious flaw. Its title could mislead a person into thinking that the book was a "how-to" manual for Washington, DC. politicians.
To learn how to buy the book, click here.
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Father's Day
Today is Father’s Day in the USA. This pundit is proud to be a father, and he wishes to celebrate Father’s Day by showing his children to the world.
Dawson (left) is 4 years old, and he is my only child by birth.
Ruth (center) lives in South America. She was 6 years old when I began sponsoring her through Compassion International. Ruth had been abandoned by her father, and over time, she began proclaiming me to be her real father. She is now 17. Ruth has t