Haiti Disaster Relief Donations – Kathleen Sebelius on Stephen Colbert
Jesus Makes Things Hard On Me
From:
www.lamebook.com
Bowling: How to Master the Game
Bowling: How to Master the Game by Parker Bohn III available @ Amazon.com
Disappointing.
I am not sure who the intended audience for this book was. I not sure the authors knew who the intended audience was, either.
I bowled some as a young teenager. I’m in my 50s now and I have started to bowl some again. What I wanted and needed was a book of basic instruction on the proper techniques and strategy of bowling. Having read some of the reviews that is what I thought I was getting.
If I had been able to pick this book Continue reading “Bowling: How to Master the Game”
Dollars are essentially votes
Folks who know me realize that I like to get good value for my dollar. Some folks have called me cheap. I don’t think that is really the case. I just remember a concept I learned back in high school economics. Whenever you make a purchase, you are effectively casting a dollar vote for that product. More to the point you are voting on the pricing of that product. I just like to be careful with my voting.
I was in Walgreens to buy a bag ice. Yes it is a little high in there, but the combined cost of gas to the grocery store and Continue reading “Dollars are essentially votes”
Pat Robertson believes in Voodoo
Quote from The Washington Post article about Pat Robertson’s comments on Haiti:
“Evangelical broadcaster Pat Robertson says Haiti has been “cursed” because of what he called a “pact with the devil” in its history. His spokesman said the Wednesday comments were based on Voodoo rituals carried out before a slave rebellion against French colonists in 1791.”
Ol’ Pat seems to be in a permanent state of psychosis when it comes to all things religious. He obviously believes in God and more importantly a Devil. I’ve always wondered if Christianity and Islam could exist without the concept of a devil. If there is not a devil running around causing all the evil in the world then that leaves it up to the omnipotent, Abrahamic god. To my way of thinking there is a lot not nice things that go on in this world. Of course, that brings us full circle back to Epicurus’ old questions
I begun ruminating on his comments, and I decided that he must believe in Voodoo also. Why else would he think that a ritual performed 219 years ago had the power to eject the colonial power out of Haiti? Makes you wonder about what else Ol’ Pat believes.
I pray…
I pray that we come to value each and every human for who they are, not what they are, or what they can produce.
I pray for the day when a person’s race, gender, ethnicity, or sexual orientation does not limit their place/roles in life.
I pray that we come to learn that so many should not be hungry, thirsty or homeless when a few have more than they could use in a multitude of lifetimes. Continue reading “I pray…”
Gay Teen Worried He Might Be Christian
Well you know…some parents have more issues to deal with than others.
Gay Teen Worried He Might Be Christian @ TheOnion.com
Save the paragraph
I am starting a campaign to save the paragraph. I may get bumper stickers printed up.
Email and other electronic forms of instant communication have done much to butcher and change written communication. One of these is the loss of the paragraph in such writings.
For me, at least, it makes some of these hard to read when they run for 100s of words without a pause or logically grouping thoughts.
SAVE THE PARAGRAPH
Ideas for Liberal bumper stickers
You’ve all seen them. Various bumper stickers denigrating socialism, health care reform, anything supposedly Liberal.
There does not seem to be a whole lot of ones out there of the other ilk. How about coming up with a few?
I’ll start it off.
Capitalism: Where 10% of the people have 65% of the wealth.
Capitalism: Have you checked your 401k lately.
I love how Korporations manage MY health care.
Canada could teach US about citizen centered government
The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster by Bobby Henderson available at Amazon.com
Okay here is the deal in a nutshell. If you think the probability of a deity being a Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM) is on equal par with a deity being Allah, Jesus, Jehovah, or whomever then you will find this book entertaining. If that thought offends you will in all unlikely not enjoy this book. Personally, in the last situation, I think you should read the book just to see what the other side thinks and believes.
The book stems from a letter Bobby Henderson wrote to the Kansas Board of Education when they were putting Intelligent Design on par with the theory of evolution in the public school curriculum. He has a point, if Intelligent Design is to be taught why not yet another point of view.
The book is basically an effort to expand on that original letter. Parts of it are a little dense or dry. Parts of it are very funny. Parts are some what redundant.
I enjoyed it, but take it for what it is a spoof on all things religious.
My future plans involve having a monk’s robe made out of Mexican blanket material, grabbing a pirate hat and patch and going to the Big Lebowski Festival as a Dudeist priest of the Pastafarian flavor.