Warfare can be as fluid and as targeted as human ingenuity. While we’re worrying — with justification — about the possibility of all-out nuclear war in an atomic Middle East, we also need to consider the possibilities inherent in a simple device that you are looking at right now. That device is your computer, and the means of delivery of untold mayhem is the internet. Revenge hacking is an old deal. I had a number of attempts to hack me personally... Read more
Oklahoma’s elderly lost a key supporter in the Oklahoma legislature last Friday. Representative David Dank died in his home of an apparent heart attack. His funeral is today. David and I were friends for 35 years. In all that time, he never told me a lie. He was always someone I could turn to for help. David was a principled legislator who saw corruption and tried to end it and who stood unfailingly for the needs of elderly people. A... Read more
The boys and girls in the United States Senate are doing nothing again. However, it must be admitted that they are doing their nothing with real flair. The reason? It seems that most of the Ds are all in a snit over a proposed bill that would help agencies that oppose human trafficking. The bill contains a prohibition on any of the funds in the bill going to pay for abortions. Legislation has often contained this kind of rider since... Read more
Murderers and rapists demand silence. They will use any means to coerce agreement that they did not do what they, in fact, did. This is part of getting away with it. It is an extension of the original crime. Every Turk who participated in the Armenian genocide is dead and gone. But by refusing to tell the truth of the thing, and by using the power of government to try to hide it and cover it up with lies, today’s... Read more
Boko Haram kidnapped 200 Nigerian school girls a year ago. They’ve also kidnapped 100s of other Nigerians in the year since. Kidnapping, slavery, murder and theft seem to be the hallmarks of both Hoko Haram and ISIS. Read more
If you want to know who’s running for President, just get a phone book. Or, you can limit your list to candidates who are running under the banner of one of the two main political parties and who have a PAC. That’s still a long list. The ones below are the icing on the presidential candidate cake. Republicans Former UN Ambassador, John Bolton PAC Site: Bolton PACFacebook: www.facebook.com/AmbBoltonTwitter: www.twitter.com/AmbJohnBolton Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush PAC Site: Right to Rise PACFacebook: www.facebook.com/JebBush Twitter: www.twitter.com/JebBush NJ Governor Chris Christie PAC... Read more
In his morning homily today, Pope Francis described the courage to proclaim the Gospel as grace born of the Holy Spirit. He exercised a bit of that grace in the mass described in the video below in which he called the massacre of Armenians early in the 20th century what it was: Genocide. Turkey responded by recalling its ambassador to the Holy See. There’s no surprise in this. No one likes to face the realization that there is a monster in... Read more
I didn’t know that the money I spent on my computer would fund an attack on my religious freedom. If I had known, I would have bought elsewhere. I’m a mac. Big time. I own a Macbook Pro, a Macbook Air 11″, iPad, iPhone, and a Mac Pro. I’ve also got a couple of old iPods lying around that I don’t use much anymore. I’ve passed along my old hardware to family members. The Apple logo dots my family landscape... Read more
You say you are rich and need nothing. You don’t realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. You are lukewarm, neither hot nor cold. I am about to spit you out of my mouth. Jesus Christ I doubt if there are any lukewarm Christians in Iraq. Ditto for Iran, Yemen, Saudia Arabia, North Korea, China and much of India. Lukewarmness is the luxury of the privileged. In fact, it seems that the more privileged the person, the more... Read more
I wrote a post a couple of days ago in which I asked the question Are Gay Marriage Activists Too Needy to Take Yes for an Answer? The combox response was immediate and vociferous. Before I could say “wedding cake,” the discussion had abandoned the matter of political exigencies, as well as the weighty Constitutional questions involved, to become a discussion about whether or not gay people are people (yes) and what causes homosexuality (as of today, unknown, but I’m personally... Read more
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