This is one of the most imaginative Christmas videos that I've seen in a long time... ENJOY!
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Bible - Misconceptions
A Yale University course on the Hebrew Bible presented by Professor Christine Hayes, Professor of Religious Studies in Classical Judaica. Before joining the Yale faculty in 1996, she was Assistant Professor of Hebrew Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University for three years. A specialist in talmudic-midrashic studies, Hayes offers undergraduate courses on the literature and history of the biblical and talmudic periods (including Introduction to the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible and Introduction to Judaism). The course's complete playlist is at
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=C47C268DDAF2B5AC
A Course on Hebrew Bible, Part 4: Bible - Misconceptions
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=C47C268DDAF2B5AC
A Course on Hebrew Bible, Part 4: Bible - Misconceptions
Monday, May 31, 2010
Friday, May 28, 2010
We like being Catholic
Promo from the Illinois Catholic Prayer breakfast group last month... don't know why I hadn't seen this until now: YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y97tyVWL214
SIMPLY CATHOLIC
SIMPLY CATHOLIC
Friday, April 23, 2010
All I can say to that....
From Mark Rubio's speech:
" And yet there have always have been those who haven't seen it this way. There have always been those that don't recognize this. They think that we need a guardian class in American government to protect us from ourselves. They think that the free-enterprise system is unfair, that a few people make a lot of money, and the rest of us get left behind. They believe that the only way business can make its money is by exploiting its workers and its customers. And they think that America's enemies exist because of something America did to earn their enmity."
" And yet there have always have been those who haven't seen it this way. There have always been those that don't recognize this. They think that we need a guardian class in American government to protect us from ourselves. They think that the free-enterprise system is unfair, that a few people make a lot of money, and the rest of us get left behind. They believe that the only way business can make its money is by exploiting its workers and its customers. And they think that America's enemies exist because of something America did to earn their enmity."
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
more obstructionism...
Has anyone else had enough of this?
I've been complaining about this for two years:
I've been complaining about this for two years:
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Stop GOP Obstructionists: Bi-Partisanship Starts At Home
I watched C-Span a lot over the summer, and the hypocrisy of the GOP's actions really started to get to me. My impression was that they were deliberately throwing monkey wrenches into the legislative process in order to condemn the failure of the legislative process. Were they breaking government by the people in order to keep it permanently broken?
Just out of curiosity, I went to the Thomas.gov archive for Congress. I researched how often the term "cloture on the motion" appeared in the record when the Dems were in the minority vs when the Reps were.
YEAR No. of times cloture invoked
2000 32
2001 26
2002 20
2003 20
2004 67
2005 20
LOOK AT THIS!
2006 86 <---start of the Democratic majority
2007 124
2008 138 <--as of 8/28/08
Sure enough, the GOP's abuse of the government was atrocious. We should all give a sigh of relief if the Dems can achieve a filibuster-proof majority.
Just out of curiosity, I went to the Thomas.gov archive for Congress. I researched how often the term "cloture on the motion" appeared in the record when the Dems were in the minority vs when the Reps were.
YEAR No. of times cloture invoked
2000 32
2001 26
2002 20
2003 20
2004 67
2005 20
LOOK AT THIS!
2006 86 <---start of the Democratic majority
2007 124
2008 138 <--as of 8/28/08
Sure enough, the GOP's abuse of the government was atrocious. We should all give a sigh of relief if the Dems can achieve a filibuster-proof majority.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
A Most Peculiar Man (P. Simon 1965)
I've been thinking quite a lot about those who live without eschatological hope, which reminded me of this old Paul Simon song:
mp3:
He was a most peculiar man.
That's what Mrs. Riordan said and she should know;
She lived upstairs from him
She said he was a most peculiar man.
He was a most peculiar man.
He lived all alone within a house,
Within a room, within himself,
A most peculiar man.
He had no friends, he seldom spoke
And no one in turn ever spoke to him,
'Cause he wasn't friendly and he didn't care
And he wasn't like them.
Oh, no! he was a most peculiar man.
He died last Saturday.
He turned on the gas and he went to sleep
With the windows closed so he'd never wake up
To his silent world and his tiny room;
And Mrs. Riordan says he has a brother somewhere
Who should be notified soon.
And all the people said, "What a shame that he's dead,
But wasn't he a most peculiar man?"
mp3:
found at bomb-mp3 search engine
He was a most peculiar man.
That's what Mrs. Riordan said and she should know;
She lived upstairs from him
She said he was a most peculiar man.
He was a most peculiar man.
He lived all alone within a house,
Within a room, within himself,
A most peculiar man.
He had no friends, he seldom spoke
And no one in turn ever spoke to him,
'Cause he wasn't friendly and he didn't care
And he wasn't like them.
Oh, no! he was a most peculiar man.
He died last Saturday.
He turned on the gas and he went to sleep
With the windows closed so he'd never wake up
To his silent world and his tiny room;
And Mrs. Riordan says he has a brother somewhere
Who should be notified soon.
And all the people said, "What a shame that he's dead,
But wasn't he a most peculiar man?"
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