Good morning. Ah, much warmer … it’s 8 in Chicago … and apparently much warmer weather is on the way.
- Ewww. I think the idea that there is “no law against it”, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be fired for doing it.
- Well, there you go. A counter to Mr Warren being offered a chance to offer public prayer.
- The other side of the sweatshop coin.
- A good story from the desert.
- On MLKj.
- Standing against a classless society.
- Identity vs conviction … and those standing convicted of a lack of conviction.
- Failing to mention his graduate students … who likely did the real work?
- Journalism and a question.
- Troy Polamalu and taking one’s faith seriously.
- Yet again, bias and the media.
- History and a blogged discussion. The original. A dissenting view. Another response.
- Suffering for purpose.
- For those with BDS.
- An Orthodox reading plan. Now I just need a Philokalia reading plan to put along side it.
- Next year … how will Mr Obama treat with Sanctity of Life Sunday?
- Heh.
- Job and Galactica considered.
- I concur.
- Gosh another Ponzi found.
- My daughter was there.
- An odd road glyph.
- Bad advice I think?
Well, there you go. A counter to Mr Warren being offered a chance to offer public prayer.
Good. Maybe if we required a Muslim speaker after every Christian speaker at government events the Christians would stop pushing for religious speakers altogether.
On BDS, I’ve never seen anything remotely like that. It’s like you troll the internet looking for the worst possible example of the other side so you can pretend nobody on the other side is reasonable. Well, in reality, 80% of the country is “deranged” if thinking Bush is an atrocious president is deranged.
JA,
It was not the Islam but the Hamas connection that I think was the problematic part.
Uhm, on the BDS remark. I don’t know which entry you are talking about, which is why on Boonton’s request I’ve gone from itemized to enumerated lists. If you’re talking about #14 I have no idea why you call that unreasonable. Which statements by Tom do you find unreasoning and beyond the pale?
On BDS, I’m not sure what page I was responding to, sorry.
The BDS point is perfectly valid, although to this day I don’t think we have a clear picture of what exactly happened with the bombing of that factory in the Sudan or why. Since Bush’s been President for 8 years the reason we don’t know can’t just be a partisan motive to protect the legacy of Clinton.
Assuming, though, that the bombing of the Sudan factory was totally in error and that it was 100% peaceful without any connection to WMD or terrorism we still have a problem for Bush defenders. We are talking about one questionable strike under Bill Clinton. We have an entire questionable war under George Bush.
The idea that the Sudan factory was wrong causes even more problems for Bush. One only had to look at recent history to know that:
1. Our intelligence about Muslim lands is shakey and unreliable.
2. We are highly unlikely to correct determine the consquences of our military actions there.
Since this would have all been recent history Bush has little excuse for not learning from Clinton’s mistake before embarking on it but on a scale 100,000 times bigger.
Perhaps JA was talking about #5, the ‘classless society’ cartoon. I’m more interested in that blog’s subtitle, “the strategy of bingo”. There’s a strategy to bingo? I thought it was just luck and paying attention.
Ohhh but #6 is a nice case of ‘pot kettle black’. In the cartoon Mark initially linked to the author holds up example of ‘classless’ attacks on George Bush. Then in his “Obama bingo” cartoon what does one of the squares say “God (or Allah)”. So you have to be classy when talking about George Bush but the tasteless “Obama’s a secret Muslim” meme is ok to be hawking even this long after the election!
#11 “Yet again, bias and the media. ”
Congraduations on finally producing a real example of media bias. Here relevant facts were left out of the story producing a biased article (I’m assuming, of course, that the blogger claiming to have been there is himself accurately reporting what he saw)
Thank you for the mention! ;-D
Boonton,
On the Muslim/Obama meme and “Bingo” I think how the game is played is that one takes a drink (or checks the square) when the word is mentioned. That has nothing to do with “Obama’s secret name” does it. Although, that blogger does skirt the closest to being offensive of those right (or left) wing blogs I read. In his defense, I find him funny (usually intentionally) a lot so I continue.
And chess is exciting?
Valid point, his examples of offensive leftism is more offensive than his skirting close to some offensive right-wing stuff on Obama. I admit that the bingo thing is otherwise pretty good, the “classless society”, though, wasn’t funny and it’s point wasn’t all that powerful IMO.
Perhaps JA was talking about #5, the ‘classless society’ cartoon.
Yes, that’s it. Thanks. Sorry, I was running out the door this morning when I commented.
Thanks for the link, Mark!