“Freedom is measured by the distance between church and state”
After the last many days of torment i guess the rumors are true: I’m really NOT Gawd’s Speshul Snowflake! <*snicker*>
After about 25 years or more on computers/internet, this is the first time a hard drive has actually died on me. And now I’m living with the consequences of inadequate backup procedures.
MOST of what I need [...]
As if nothing else could go wrong….
My home computer died. I’m at my daughter’s at the moment, and I’ll be here daily trying to keep everything running until I can buy a new computer.
AAAARRRGGGHHHH…. What else can go wro…. no wait… I don’t wanna know. forget I even asked.
Okay, this is unusual for this blog, but here’s the deal: I’m hurting in a big-time way.
I am an independent art-yarn dyer. Sales have been steadily decreasing for the last 5-6 months. I’m over 3 months behind on the rent, and virtually everything else is overdue as well. It’s becoming harder and harder to hang [...]
Okay, this is a blatant plug for my artwork — printed on canvas totes, which everyone needs. You have stuff, you carry stuff… so you need a totebag in which to conveniently put all your stuff, right?
This is my own artwork. If you’d like to have this image on a tote bag, go visit my [...]
People continue their anti-islamic bullshit, fear-mongering and just plain stupidity.
I’m not pro-Islamic, just anti-bigotry. In fact, I’m generally anti-religion, and ONE of the reasons for that is because the greatest function of religion seems to be hating on all the other religions, and this is no more greatly exemplified than the current hoo-haw over the [...]
Okay, so I know I’m losing weight, not entirely on purpose — partly conscious eating choices, partly due to less income. And semi-regular bike-rides.
And you can see that while I still have some love handles to get rid of (noticeable over my right hip, huh?), you can also see my shorts have become almost [...]
Interesting discussion ensued yesterday over on Facebook, but I’d like to present it for further discussion here.
I’ll first post the video that started it, and then I’ll quote verbatim the entire relevant discussion.
And then add to it under the quoted parts.
and here’s what was posted after:
Ray
“We pray for you, and you go to OUR [...]
crap. if you’ve posted a comment in the last week or so, I think I accidentally deleted it. I thought I was viewing on the spam comments waiting for deletion, so I clicked “all” and then “delete” … not realize it was showing a whole of all comments left behind, both awaiting moderation and those [...]
Now, before y’all go getting eleventy-seven kinds of upset, let me state clearly from the start:
I am pissed at the gross negligence of BP and its contractors that permitted such an egregious violation of public trust — allowing them to drill in our waters while assuming without proof that they were capable of doing their [...]
This is really not much of an issue in the grander scheme of things, but it is niggling at my brain, so I’ll put it out there.
A few weeks back I bought two baggie swim-trunks. They are polyester (dang-it), but not altogether uncomfortable. After all, they are made mostly for swimming, and polyester makes them [...]
My brain is full to overflowing with all the various news feeds. Hard to muster up a worthy rant.
So, this is what I did; I laid 4 clices of bacon into a cast iron skillet; topped them with 2 Kountry Boys sausage, cut lengthwise, laid open face down.
After 30 minutes in a 300° oven, it [...]
No, no…. I would not seriously suggest killing someone as an act of mercy for the rest of us. But seriously, I would not be saddened if Sarah Palin were to suddenly drop out of public view and just go back to private life. She is an ignorant buffoon and is not at all qualified [...]
There’s really no excuse for this, other than you deserve to go to sleep with this image in your brain. And before you even think it, allow me to say, “You’re quite welcome!”.
g’night!
Personally, I don’t like the idea of abortion. I don’t know of anyone who does. But I’m not willing to lie about it the way religious anti-abortionists do.
A fertilized egg is NOT a human being. Certainly it is a collection of human cells, but it is not a human being, and it is no more [...]
A matter of pressing urgency.
If you are single AND living alone, do you close the door when you use the bathroom? Why or why not?
OR…. when you have the house/apartment/dwelling to yourself, do you still close the door even when nobody else is around?
There are no right or wrong responses, but I put the question [...]
There’s been a lot of coverage over Judge Crabb’s ruling on Thursday that the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional. And a lot of misunderstanding as well.
The judge’s ruling is, of course, correct — it is unconstitutional for the government to declare the National Day of Prayer, especially when it is done in conjunction with [...]
The media has had loads of coverage about the 7 year old Russian boy who had been adopted into the United States, but then last week was put on a plane, without a chaperone, bound back for Russia and to the orphanage from which he was adopted. Only a note attached to his backpack offered [...]
This via AnAtheist.net: Meet Joey Lo: One More Christian On A Mission
Basically, his message is: “Murder is wrong, but because I’m a Roman Catholic Christian I have the right to kill doctors who perform abortions because abortion is always murder.”
This is trouble on so many levels — his personal religion has no bearing on the [...]
(blatant self-promotion)
I’ve not been posting regularly here on this blog for a few weeks because, quite frankly, I need to make some money and I’ve had to focus on creating more income instead of opining online so much. I do read the various news feeds, blog aggregators, and so forth, and there are so [...]
The news over the last week has been filled with stories of the Catholic Church. Apparently the Pope himself knew what was happening, both in Europe as well as here in the U.S.
Of course, the Roman Catholic Church is not the only problem. There are several blogs currently focused on the misdeeds of clergy of [...]
