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to unify or not to unify

Friday, September 30th, 2005

What in the world does it mean for a protestant church to be “unified” with Rome if it means no changes? That is the question posed by the announcement that “The Anglican Church in America has decided to seek union with the Roman Catholic Church.”[1] but that “from a basic theological and operational standpoint, [...]

polygamy

Thursday, September 29th, 2005

In a turn of events that bodes ill for all, it appears that the Dutch have decided to legalize polygamy.[1] I bet the Mormons and the Muslims will waste no time jumping on this new “right.” How long until we see a push for this here I wonder? Heaven help us when [...]

Heather had two moms

Monday, September 26th, 2005

The National Catholic Register takes a look at an odd case in California as a homosexual couple splits up as an opportunity to look at how the Church’s teaching on marriage would save us heartache and grief.[1] It is worth reading and considering as so many jurisdictions face the question of whether to allow homosexual [...]

thoughts and status

Friday, September 23rd, 2005

Spent some time looking at grim’s nascent gobjectification of the buddy list in Gaim today. Its been quite some time since I have seriously looked at C. I need to get my head back into it. Plus, I am starting to lose touch with the code base, with the many API changes going [...]

more hobbits

Thursday, September 22nd, 2005

More speculation that the “hobbit” find that I mentioned some time ago in fact represents diseased humans.[1] Naturally the idea of a new species is accepted uncritically while those scientists expressing skepticism are treated more critically. My question is as follows: does microephaly have a genetic component? That is, is it like dwarfism that runs [...]

more on liquification

Wednesday, September 21st, 2005

William, likely as a result of having looked for unassailable miracles last year for a paper, took the time to search out reasons not to trust the liquefication of blood that I mentioned recently.[1] I quote him (William) here.

Better Blood Through Chemistry: A Laboratory Replication of a Miraclehttp://www.scientificexploration.org/jse/abstracts/v6n3a2.php The Blood of St. Januarius [...]

federal charity

Wednesday, September 21st, 2005

Mr. Walter Williams succinctly outlines the concept that the federal government has no business engaging in charity and relief efforts.[1] Quoting Presidents Cleveland, Madison, and Jefferson, he demonstrates that this idea starts with the founding fathers, including the man (Madison) who largely authored the Constitution, and continued for some time in the minds of their [...]

MmmBop

Wednesday, September 21st, 2005

A school playing “MmmBop” over the PA system until their fund raising goal was met provides an amusing story.[1] I am glad to note that “Hanson,” who is apparently the group whose song it is, has taken this well. ☺

[1] The Associated Press. “Katrina Campaign Goal Puts Stop To ‘MmmBop’” The Omaha Channel [...]

liquifaction

Tuesday, September 20th, 2005

Small miracles happen every day, or not so much “small,” as “common.” Every hour babies are born for example. Yet still, tempted as we are to forget how miraculous this is, it is good that we are provided with other miracles, less common ones. Today marks one such.

Naples, Sep. 20, [...]

missadventures in unix

Monday, September 19th, 2005

Minicom is a pain. Who would have guessed that I need to clear out the initialization and reset strings so as to connect to an areasys 2012…

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