Archive for December, 2005
Killing Christmas? It’s Nothing New
Every year, the hubub between the anti-Christmas folks and the pro-Christmas folks gets more heated. This year, it has reached a fever pitch. I wrote a bit about it last year, and I thought I might add a thought this year. Christmas is the day we celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus [...]
China’s Early Christian History Proven?
St. Thomas is believed to have travelled to China in his travels Eastward, eventually being killed in India. Little evidence exists for the claims that he visited China, but possible clues may have been discovered that he, or another missionary, made the trek around this same period. Wang Weifan, a 78-year-old scholar of early Christian [...]
I’m Glad I Don’t Live in Democrat America
The economy is horrible. Unemployment is rampant, and jobs are near non-existent. Women are oppressed. Black churches are being burned by racists. If any jobs are available, no black person can get one. Hispanics are being similarly oppressed. Poisons taint our water supplies. For that matter, the water supplies are almost gone. The government is [...]
Stanley Crouch Comments on Flawed Richard Pryor
You can count me among the long list of people who enjoyed Richard Pryor’s work. He was an amazingly funny man, and may go down in history as one of the top comedians of the latter part of the 20th Century. That said, I have to agree with Stanley Crouch that Richard Pryor was not [...]
(The Other) Ogre Fisks Code Pink
As some of you may know, I’m not the only Ogre in the blogosphere. You might say we have our own Ogresphere. Of course, I’m the ogre with a name. He’s just Ogre. Anyway, Ogre had a bit of fun fisking Code Pink’s anti-war-toy flyer. It’s a hoot. Yeah, I’m semi-anti-toy-gun myself. Instead of buy [...]
Chronicles of Narnia – Movie Review (Minor Spoilers)
At the end of my sixth grade year, my school had a book fair. My Mother and I walked through the school’s library, looking at the selection of books available. Not twenty feet through the door, my eyes landed on a box set of “The Chronicles of Narnia” by C.S. Lewis. After walking through the [...]
Car Troubles
Well, the Saturn finally bit the dust. When my wife and I married, she had a 1991 Saturn SL. Over the years, minor issues have cropped up with the car. The first big issue was back in the mid 1990s, when a valve roller went bad, resulting in replacement of a couple valves, rollers, rocker [...]
Dean Says US Won’t Win In Iraq
Seemingly intent on destroying the Democrats from inside, Howard Dean is off running his mouth again. This time, he says that the US will not win in Iraq. “I’ve seen this before in my life. This is the same situation we had in Vietnam. Everybody then kept saying, ‘just another year, just stay the course, [...]