tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-137838962012-02-16T18:32:55.183-08:00Through A Glass DimlyMemento from an ongoing struggleSkybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.comBlogger7481100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-46658092120985081152009-04-20T11:47:00.000-07:002009-04-20T11:49:37.297-07:00If We Only Knew What Made for Peace This will be it for some time. By "it" I mean the last post of my interwebs journal. But no one needs to feel abandoned or that this is any kind of end. If the past is indicative of the future, I would bet any future posts could be distilled to the following:We are prone to believing self-serving fictions.We are reluctant to be wary of our motives.Our voodoo isSkybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-11690606121065232412009-04-13T15:30:00.000-07:002009-04-13T16:48:47.268-07:00I Thought It Was Supposed to Help You Stay In the GameAlternate TakeSo Rick Warren canceled an appearance on the news show This Week yesterday. He claimed health and fatigue issues were exacerbated by inhaling fumes from a newly completed pulpit. That happens. I struggle buying the idea that Rick Warren is more a pastor than a certain type of entrepreneur. Following that, it's hard for me to see Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-62790319883236730692009-04-13T15:27:00.000-07:002009-04-13T15:28:52.994-07:00I Thought It was Supposed to Help You Stay in the GameWell Rick Warren and I have more in common than I ever would have guessed. I am sickened and exhausted by his public speaking engagements as well. This could be serious. Maybe it's the chemicals from the beard dye.Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-72293888793580392262009-04-09T14:21:00.000-07:002009-04-09T14:24:09.952-07:00I'm Not an Actor but I play One on TVOh my goodness I would loooooove to hear/see the notes on these.I bet it would look a little something like this... (I'm scratching my chin and looking at the ceiling- cue wavy dissolve) Okay, but be more terrified.Can you do immigrant. All right show me threatenedOkay your a dyke but your with us- got it? GoNo no no just like it's written- no no I don't care Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-70645020805870574172009-04-09T12:23:00.000-07:002009-04-09T12:36:07.355-07:00Ow My Freakin' EarsThe library was going to open late this morning so the fire alarms could be tested. That makes good sense. You don't want people being confused or unsettled by horrible noise in a library of all places. Unfortunately that testing was not done... not even started by the time we opened. So the testing was done... is being done with a library full of patrons and employees. It's Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-4862689798636407232009-04-09T09:11:00.000-07:002009-04-09T09:11:00.361-07:00Death is a ProphylacticI was asked to verify that Billy Graham ever said what I said he said. I guess I have to say he didn't "say" it.It's tough if you don't accept that he was a man, but here 'tis.So the reveal? Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. "Spiritualizing" My Lai. Waving our palm fronds. Isn't it all of the same stuff? Doesn't it depend on our creating a self-serving, self-justifying, Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-10116317537022145862009-04-08T16:20:00.000-07:002009-04-08T16:20:00.740-07:00I Will Be BriefThis week seems a perfect storm of destroying devotion. What?This past Saturday was the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s murder. I know this anniversary was not a decade marker- and Obama is president- so it might not be necessary to remember Martin Luther King Jr. anymore, but whatever the reasons, it didn't carry the same eventfulness as last year's anniversary. I mean Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-68128857000433894212009-04-08T16:14:00.001-07:002009-04-08T16:14:46.340-07:00Finally! No Wonder You're Going Out of BusinessBlockbuster has shipped The The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection, Vol. 2 - Pod PeopleYou're invited.Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-76597216998274705002009-03-31T05:10:00.000-07:002009-03-31T05:10:00.384-07:00Jesus Is Our Following JesusSpeculum- ... so I was so overcome and convicted by my own role in that whole stinkin' process that I bought as many newspapers as I could and ripped that picture out- I mean the picture of that dad crying over his dead little girl's body just overtook me- and so I ripped it out- out of each newspaper and wrote "This is the face of our sin" on each one with a magic Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-81858768535369449722009-03-28T11:14:00.000-07:002009-03-28T11:17:23.548-07:00ObjectivitySaid in line at Stater Bros.- Ugh, Valerie Bertinelli beach body at 48? Yeah it's easy when you have a personal trainer, cooks, and get to work out all day... ...Before purchasing-Off-Brand DrumsticksSpaghetti SauceFrozen PizzaDiet CokeLay's Potato Chips2 Healthy Choice SoupsSkybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-85883363141680622412009-03-27T16:20:00.000-07:002009-03-27T16:22:44.881-07:00The Morning Lasts All DayThe Lovely Elizabeth is singing the chorus to Life in a Northern Town these days. A lot. It makes the Qweenbean happy.She admitted that it makes her hurry home from work now. The soft inference is she previously did not come home as quickly as she could. Whereas I, the good parent, can't wait to get around our little spawn's filled diapers, inarticulate articulation of Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-58036139983794910642009-03-27T13:56:00.001-07:002009-03-27T13:56:59.144-07:00Oh Thank God"One Republican Senator, Richard C. Shelby of Alabama, voted against the legislation. He was joined by seven Democrats: Barbara Boxer of California, Richard H. Bryan of Nevada, Russell D. Feingold of Wisconsin, Tom Harkin of Iowa, Barbara A. Mikulski of Maryland, Mr. Dorgan and Mr. Wellstone."NY TimesSo he remains God's prophet.Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-74893533215553764932009-03-26T09:11:00.000-07:002009-03-26T09:11:00.945-07:00It's All of The Same...Back in the day when I taught Neo-Fascism (high school economics)- Oh that's right I was a high school social-sciences teacher. You didn't know that? Oh well, I was. Isn't that something? Good times.- So, back then, it was a challenge to get the private Christian high schoolers to see the meaninglessness of the label "liberal" as far as our economics or politics was Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-8550870869575003232009-03-25T19:16:00.000-07:002009-03-25T19:32:33.103-07:00If We'd Only Recognize The Things That Make for PeaceI think I've seen enough of me and others to know that we often harp loudest about that with which we struggle most. I mean I was raised in a pretty aggressive and violent environment. I was in a lot of fights and often didn't think twice about hurting others. In many ways, violence was the primary language and often a ready solution Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-58649954003273544902009-03-25T16:07:00.000-07:002009-03-25T16:10:37.411-07:00I'm That Guy?So I'm waiting for a friend in front of a local eatery* last night and I am jerked out of the moment. I catch myself resting my hand on my chin and staring at something far away yet not within the horizon. I don't know exactly how long I'd been like that, long enough to somehow get from the corner of Citrus and Alosta to "but if we say we have something to say to matters of sexualitySkybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-19008200187408525512009-03-25T14:41:00.000-07:002009-03-25T15:08:01.369-07:00Nuts and Gum, Together at LastI've just seen this. It's the trailer for Where the Wild Things Are. I like Where The Wild Things Are, David Eggers, Spike Jonze, and Arcade Fire...Yet something doesn't sit well... I know it's just a trailer but it seems far more mopey... wan... maudlin... wistful... emo-soaked... than the book has ever seemed to me. Is it the pall of golden light? That world Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-83711706764236013922009-03-22T21:16:00.000-07:002009-03-22T21:17:37.899-07:00There are people that make it possible for me to be a Christian. There is one less in the world. "We need to understand that no theology can escape the epistemological characteristics of its time, even if it intends to oppose them."Marcella Althaus-Reid, 1952-2009Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-38063157329673191532009-03-20T13:53:00.000-07:002009-03-20T14:09:49.787-07:00I Think You're Cool, Homer SimpsonSorry, we'll save you a seat at lunch tomorrow.The National Religious Campaign Against Torture is just that... a national religious campaign against torture. Longtime readers of my tubesdiary are probably sci-fi/fantasy fans but have also likely come across me mentioning it before.Unfortunately, it's existence as an inclusive religious campaign makes it suspect Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-92194118525573602852009-03-18T13:29:00.000-07:002009-03-18T13:30:02.410-07:00These Floors Are Dirty as Hell, and I'm Not Gonna Take It Anymore!When did being Wally George become a real career?It's weird. You'd think you could actually pinpoint the moment in time that over-the-top stoner fodder became a news network's mainstay.Friends, there comes a time in every man's life when he has to look the potato of injustice right in the eye...So What- Miles davisSkybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-42997930179779308322009-03-17T14:16:00.000-07:002009-03-17T14:17:03.935-07:00An Ideological Hammer Forging the Chains of Our Slaveryskybalon: Ugh, Obama's health care proposals are driving me nuts. The Qweenbean: Hey don't say anything bad about Obama... He's my W.Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-22831957012851729542009-03-17T14:07:00.000-07:002009-03-17T14:11:06.495-07:00Orange or Green Today?So my wife is, somewhere in her ancestry, Irish. We play along a bit with the St. Patrick's Day, mostly by punching each other. Hey-ooo!Anyway, the whole color thing- she's protestant, so orange, right? But she comes from a long line of folks who embodied poverty and cultural exclusion. That seems green to me. But her more immediate ancestry has bought in and is very much aSkybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-79519209161846041262009-03-16T16:48:00.000-07:002009-03-16T16:49:07.756-07:00Pomona MattersBefore the Lovely Elizabeth was born, The Qweenbean was much more sympathetic to the idea of moving to Pomona. She's thinking maybe south Claremont is the most we could handle. She's so bourgeois now. It's got a bad reputation around here, so you may be surprised to know that its property crime levels are at about the national average. It's violent crime, on the other hand, is Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-39795336672991422552009-03-16T15:40:00.000-07:002009-03-16T15:41:16.760-07:00I Say Collateral Damage, You Say Terrorism, I Say War Hero, You Say War Criminal... "Washington -- The International Committee of the Red Cross concluded in a secret report that the Bush administration's treatment of Al Qaeda captives 'constituted torture,' according to newly published excerpts from the long-concealed 2007 document."LA Times-This again? This doesn't matter any more, it's done Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-36792138281070264692009-03-16T14:51:00.000-07:002009-03-16T14:52:22.828-07:00It Takes One to Know One"The funny thing is, of course, that socialists know that Barack Obama is not one of us. Not only is he not a socialist, he may in fact not even be a liberal. Socialists understand him more as a hedge-fund Democrat -- one of a generation of neoliberal politicians firmly committed to free-market policies."Billy Wharton of the Socialist Party USA in the Washington Post.Told Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-90057847750879901402009-03-14T16:49:00.000-07:002009-03-14T16:50:11.147-07:00St. Jon the EvangelistThere is a good deal of hand-wringing over the looming death of evangelicalism. For good or ill, younger folks, at least many of those with whom I speak are finding less and less that resonates with the many-headed, yet faceless, beast that has dominated Western American Christianity for the better half of a century. And this is terrifying older folks who have gone, and are Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-13745948741256209672009-03-13T15:56:00.000-07:002009-03-13T16:00:59.058-07:00While You Were SleepingIf we have another child it will be named Jonathan Stewart [skybalon]orRachel Maddow[nominalized] [skybalon].msnbcLinks {font-size:11px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #999; margin-top: 5px; background: transparent; text-align: center; width: 425px;} .msnbcLinks a {text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-46839814375812645422009-03-13T12:42:00.001-07:002009-03-13T12:42:54.760-07:00A Facebook Game and Open Letter to The States I've Not VisitedAlabama Alaska Arizona XArkansas XCalifornia XColorado XConnecticut XDelaware XFlorida GeorgiaHawaii Idaho Illinois XIndiana XIowa Kansas Kentucky XLouisiana X Maine Maryland Massachusetts XMichigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri XMontana Nebraska Nevada XNew HampshireNew Jersey XNew Mexico New York XNorth Carolina XNorth Dakota Ohio Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-50481900168952257342009-03-11T19:52:00.000-07:002009-03-11T20:00:48.423-07:00BOOOOOOHave you ever received a "bill" for a hospital or doctor's office visit itemizing the cost of each little thing you were offered or that was used in your treatment? For example, when I tried to chop off my thumb, the statement I received for the subsequent treatment showed the cost of the exam, the sutures, the whole vial of numbing agent (though they didn't give the whole bottle), the Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-70369331469534272652009-03-07T09:11:00.000-08:002009-03-07T09:11:00.527-08:00Building and Repairing Bridges is Liberal?If you put up with me all the way to the asterisks in the last post, kudos to you. I am ready to believe that this bundle of thumbs approach to Republican argument is a strategy meant to further move a corporatist state agenda. (Here comes my unique cuckoo.) Tying Obama to a leftist agenda and describing his policies as socialist obscures what is actuallySkybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-24100616978300943802009-03-06T12:30:00.000-08:002009-03-06T12:37:50.867-08:00You're Fighting the Last War, PopsLong time readers of my webworld diary risk alienating friends and family but may also recall my brilliant assessment of the previous presidential campaign's race-based strategies. In short, I said I thought the racial "othering"* of Obama wouldn't be the success it had been for Republicans in previous campaigns because the "signifiers,"* when compared to the Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-65947240765946351802009-03-04T13:28:00.000-08:002009-03-04T13:46:34.448-08:00I Hit You Only Because I Love You So MuchSo I'm thinking lots about silence these days. To be specific silence as an act, silence as an act of critical language. Blah blah blah... I write this because normally I offer some clever or funny intro and segue into the subject, but not this time. I know, I know, I'll write something to make you LOL or say "So true... so true" at another time.What I Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-639737753306412532009-03-02T17:48:00.000-08:002009-03-04T18:55:54.410-08:00Food Goes In HereThe Monster Machine and I were speaking briefly about Lenten practices, specifically about the "I'm giving up 'X'" bit. His sense was that it is a bit disingenuous that we talk so much about what we're giving up. I think his exact words were, "They're all a bunch of phonies and I'd like to punch each and every one of them in the [redacted] mouth". You're right. He is awful. I, asSkybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-6259228091954310322009-03-02T14:51:00.000-08:002009-03-02T14:53:35.122-08:00I'm Here to Ruin Your DaySo it turns out The Road is soon to be a major motion picture. I'm curious to see how it's been put to film but you should read the book before its release. Even if it had not been made into a movie, I would recommend the book. I've been recommending it here and there, but my learning that it will be/is a movie has presented a kind of urgency, so... Here it is: my global Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-22928386622506739002009-02-27T13:23:00.000-08:002009-02-27T13:30:19.188-08:00Below The Bible BeltThe only things as scenically regular through the South as kudzu, Cracker Barrels, and vasectomy reversal ads are porn superstores. These aren't hidden on back roads or disguised with innocuous names like Upland's The Toy Box. Right smack on I-40, with "ADULT SUPERSTORE" signs doing their best to [insert penetrative violation alluding verb here] the sky, porn store after porn Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-22738346680392118572009-02-25T21:12:00.000-08:002009-02-25T21:13:21.752-08:00Let The Market Monitor Volcanoes...The kids say, "Fail".Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-54707379945972462102009-02-23T16:22:00.000-08:002009-02-23T16:28:06.495-08:00Now...?I just can't stay away. I tried. Oh how I tried, but nothing could fill the void. Religion, family, booze? Nothing could fill the blog-shaped hole in my heart... So here my netlog waited. Reliable. Unwavering. Good and faithful little diary. Of course I couldn't leave you forever.And you, dear, little lambs. Was I gone too long? Had I left you wondering if there was something you had done Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-82971714778538188792008-12-04T09:23:00.001-08:002008-12-04T09:24:34.265-08:00Nations Sign Cluster Bomb TreatyWell, some nations anyway."The first of more than 100 countries have begun signing a treaty to ban current designs of cluster bombs, at a conference in Oslo, Norway.Campaigners are hailing the treaty as a major breakthrough.But some of the biggest stockpilers, including the US, Russia and China, are not among the signatories. "BBC NewsThis isn't the kind of thing Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-58944172150333436742008-11-24T21:52:00.000-08:002008-11-24T22:04:25.924-08:00We're All Mormon NowLong-time readers of my series-of-tubes-log risk developing hemorrhoids but may also remember I've mentioned the silliness of Protestant, specifically Evangelical, notions of scriptural authority as stated in most Evangelical statements of faith. As a Christian, I don't disagree with the idea of the Bible's authority, but as I've said before, the insistence upon a capital W "Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-46756310405455821332008-11-23T09:42:00.001-08:002008-11-23T09:42:47.643-08:00A Whole Lot of Funny In One QuoteOne white supremacist leader, describing himself as moderate, professes alarm."There is a tremendous backlash" to Obama's election, said Richard Barrett, the leader of the Nationalist Movement in Learned, Miss. "My focus is to try to keep it peaceful. But many people look at the flag of the Republic of New Africa that will be hoisted over the White House as an actSkybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-11902331076072834502008-11-22T17:29:00.000-08:002008-11-22T17:42:11.950-08:00It's Not About You... Just Kidding It Totally IsA couple of whiles ago I met the chaplain for the Lakers. He's exactly the kind of person you would think the chaplain for the Lakers ought to be. He's tall, good-looking, broad-shouldered, and gregarious. His voice has a bright, laughing timbre that, no matter what he says, makes you think he's done you a favor by speaking- a favor made all the Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-74181076451377715252008-11-21T14:28:00.000-08:002008-11-21T14:31:43.428-08:00They Can Have My Gold When They Pull It From My Cold Dead TeethI've noticed the reemergence of a golden thread running through the various paranoid media outlets I visit. (I hate myself.) If you're a certain type of paranoid, now is the time to invest in gold. Well... I suppose you don't have to be paranoid to turn to gold to offset currency instability, but I'm sure this ad is meant to appeal toSkybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-45152523877393027922008-11-14T13:35:00.000-08:002008-11-14T13:42:51.083-08:00What Was The Phrase I Like Girls Used- "'Something' Kill"?A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. On the one hand we are called to play the good Samaritan on life's roadside; but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho road must be transformed so that men and women Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-59204895988637455882008-11-12T17:05:00.000-08:002008-11-14T13:44:41.329-08:00But, But, But, But...So last night, as a change of pace, our Quaker Peace Fellowship group went to see/hear Christopher Hitchens. I thought it would be helpful to hear his articulation and understanding of how we work towards a stable, responsible, international community- especially because he sees imperialism as a good thing. I don't think he represents the majority of folks in that. Not that Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-15010347369017868892008-11-10T21:16:00.000-08:002008-11-10T21:29:18.569-08:00The Really Good Parts of Heaven Are Reserved for Male VirginsWe don't buy into this do we?If you see a lady you like among your enemy, bring her home, rape her, and she's yours. If you later decide you don't like her after all, you can get rid of her, but you can't sell her because you made her dirty. (Deut. 21:10-14)If a man rapes an unengaged young woman, he must compensate her father and then Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-70245486457762899842008-11-10T12:20:00.000-08:002008-11-10T12:23:01.383-08:00Maybe They Should've Built a Cracker Barrel Instead of The Chili'sMy brother was recently assaulted by a couple of Bros just west of the Glendora country club. According to him, some Bros started yelling at him from their truck and followed him from the Glendora Marketplace to Route 66. He was initially confused- wasn't sure if he knew these guys or what, and then they started shouting the N-wordSkybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-7152914473077010472008-11-08T13:37:00.000-08:002008-11-08T13:41:20.321-08:00Someday You'll Thank Me For All This Scary LoveWe like to say our thoughts on sex, or more accurately our rules regulating sexual behaviors, are rooted squarely and surely in scripture. I think, as Christians of a certain type anyway, we like to say that about everything, but these days, sex especially.I don't happen to think Christianity is about regulating behaviors, but let's say for a moment Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-12771722262890662742008-11-08T08:31:00.001-08:002008-11-08T08:31:57.137-08:00Now I Understand What So Many Others of You Were Feeling This WeekSo this is how that hope everyone keeps talking about feels.Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-49899244263981007252008-11-07T15:23:00.001-08:002008-11-07T15:44:33.425-08:00You Want This, Don't You?The hate is swelling in you now.Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-91199706608060365112008-11-07T15:18:00.000-08:002008-11-07T15:23:21.424-08:00Our God Has Given Our Enemy Into Our HandThree things. First. I'm guessing if the No on 8 folks had early on clearly identified what and who was behind the Yes push- Mormon and Ahmanson money- it would not have passed. Consider that the present constitutional revision passed by a much narrower margin than the 2000 ballot measure that proved unconstitutional, though it was organized and well Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-3413617258510079032008-11-06T09:45:00.000-08:002008-11-06T09:49:56.966-08:00And I Proudly Stand Up...Please join Citrus College, City of Glendora and Azusa Pacific University in Saluting our Veterans.The Ceremony will begin at Citrus College Center Quad at 11:00 and end with Flyover and Landing of US Army Helicopters at the APU Football Field SALUTING OUR VETERANSThursday ▪ 6 November 2008 ▪ 11:00 AM to 1:30 PM Musical PrologueCovina Concert BandWelcome, Proclamations, Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-15349848896762602542008-11-05T09:25:00.000-08:002008-11-05T09:56:10.458-08:00It's Nothing PersonalSo there you have it, fags. TRADITIONAL VALUES... well Mormon values anyway, cut the legs out from your homosexual agenda. Decent, righteous upstanding Californians were able to tell queers they don't know that they can't marry. Oh, and of course I don't mean "fag" or "queer" in any disparaging way. Just like no one means anything disparaging by saying you are inherently Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-5847745385091492602008-11-04T20:10:00.000-08:002008-11-05T09:55:28.218-08:00Excellent President Obama is satisfying but if I can wake up tomorrow knowing that I can marry a man when the Qweenbean and I are forced to divorce, it will be a perfect world.Update- Nov. 5th, 9:30 AMGreat. Thanks for painting me into a corner, California. So now there's a Democrat majority in Congress and a socialist headed to the White House, but just when I think I get to have a gay terroristSkybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-16390318566993463562008-11-04T08:43:00.000-08:002008-11-04T08:44:12.458-08:00Wake Up Whuate PaypleSo it was raining this morning, now it's cool, cool enough to require a jacket, at least when compared to last week. My dogs are barking at people coming up here to vote. I think this shows that creation is trying to suppress the Glendora vote. Also- I should reconsider writing longer posts when I'm so tired- which is all the time these days.Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-11139570677789780362008-11-03T23:50:00.000-08:002008-11-03T23:55:52.722-08:00Who Is This Who Even Forgives Sins?You know that Onesimus was a slave when Paul wrote to Philemon saying he wasn't a slave, right? For some people, the fact that Paul sent Onesimus back to Philemon without unequivocally and certainly overturning the institution of slavery, similar to certain of Paul's comments about the nature of gender and sexuality, makes the Bible an ideological text meant Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-62165528335862728542008-11-02T12:58:00.000-08:002008-11-02T13:01:15.681-08:00It's a Beautiful WorldI'm sure you've heard that some voters are viscerally (read racistly) against voting for Obama but don't want to say so, so they use the Secret Muslim or We Don't Know Enough About Him memes to justify their not voting for him though they might were he white. That's silly, you don't have to be racist to not vote for Obama. It might help, but it's not necessary. Likewise, youSkybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-50438766578886719472008-11-02T08:23:00.000-08:002008-11-04T08:35:34.117-08:00The Holy Spirit Will Come Upon You, and The Power of The Most High Will Overshadow YouIn a Christian sense of the world, salvation is an unwarranted gift from God. That's a pretty standard concept to a Christian. What we say is that there is no human work that earns salvation or requires that God save us. Rather it's something in the nature of God- the good news of the Good News is that God is Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-29868396686144304002008-10-31T12:07:00.000-07:002008-10-31T12:08:06.951-07:00Skynet Became Self Aware at 2:14 AMChristians seldom seem to.Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-81983433471750343892008-10-29T17:03:00.000-07:002008-10-29T17:07:38.539-07:00Consumerist PassoverConsidering we keep hitting 90+ degrees, you would be forgiven for forgetting that Halloween is this Friday. However you will not be forgiven for thinking a Sarah Palin costume is clever. There is time to think of something better. You will think of something better. There is also time to make sure you don't do more to damage the already laughable reputation of Christians Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-74873105978377192552008-10-29T10:48:00.000-07:002008-10-29T10:51:50.286-07:00Well Sure, Why Didn't You Ask Earlier?"Pakistan's government summoned the U.S. ambassador today to urge an immediate halt to missile strikes on suspected militant hide-outs near the Afghan border."LA TimesAre the kind of people that feel it's okay to go around blowing up other people the kind of people you can ask to not blow up other people?Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-40372726061998478832008-10-29T10:46:00.000-07:002008-10-29T10:48:11.667-07:00Thanks For Nothing"A U.S. military judge barred the Pentagon Tuesday from using a Guantanamo prisoner's confession to Afghan authorities as trial evidence, saying it was obtained through torture."AP NewsOnce, on a family trip to Mexico, I bought a half dozen or so throwing stars and a butterfly knife. At least once. Anyway, when my dad found out he said it was fine that I bought them, but I Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-62984485606308229852008-10-28T23:09:00.000-07:002008-10-29T10:45:21.317-07:00My Dogs Don't Speak EnglishSuppose, just for the sake of argument, we had a sense of salvation that said we were freed from guilt and that means we were well-adjusted, self-actualized, happy, positive people who have no reason to feel bad or unduly suffer. Let's say that's what we say Jesus does for one who is saved, so I am saved from any sense of a negative self. So we have to assume that we Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-21054738933644107762008-10-28T23:07:00.000-07:002008-10-28T23:08:40.837-07:00Think of The Children, Indeed Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-46262993307586230422008-10-28T23:03:00.001-07:002008-10-28T23:06:32.991-07:00He Is An Elitist"Senator Barack Obama will use his prime-time half-hour infomercial on Wednesday night to make what is effectively a closing argument to a national audience of millions. At times he will speak directly into the camera about his 20-month campaign, at others he will highlight everyday voters, their everyday troubles, and his plans to address them."NY TimesIf he thinks people Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-78026600781506800642008-10-27T16:55:00.000-07:002008-10-27T16:56:52.883-07:00She's Tidied Up and I Can't Find AnythingAPU has this lecture series or institute, I'm not sure what it is exactly, called CRIS. Creative Research on Institutes and Science, Coloring Rates Infinitely Superior, Can't Really Identify with Science or some such like that. Oh, Center for Research In ScienceAnyway, I went to their lecture called "What's So Important About Creation Theology?" and I Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-62609143636660634372008-10-27T16:43:00.000-07:002008-10-27T16:47:02.002-07:00I Still Wouldn't Say "Convinced"What is this country coming to? So a crazy white woman accuses a generic black man of attacking her and it turns out to be false. Forget the electoral elements of this, within living memory this type of accusation- even false- would have been enough to bring about the murder of any number of black men throughout the country, or in more enlightened environs, the Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-35452685170326207672008-10-24T15:00:00.000-07:002008-10-24T15:02:53.399-07:00Cue Shelves Being Knocked Over and the Elderly Storekeep Being Punched in The GutYouze gots yourself a nice little shop here. It would be a shame if anything wuz to happen to it.Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-58383846046395964852008-10-23T08:53:00.000-07:002008-10-23T08:54:03.984-07:00Only I Like Girls May Watch ThisSkybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-49468961862476158932008-10-22T22:08:00.000-07:002008-10-22T22:12:19.212-07:00I Have Built You an Exalted House, A Place for You to Dwell in ForeverBeing a jerk is part of my vocation. There. Now that that's out of the way we can proceed and you needn't wonder if I know that what I've said is kind of jerky. I recently received a number of email forwards lauding the outbreak of revival at Barclay College in Kansas. The broad strokes are a missionary on furlough visited the Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-7788727760827059472008-10-18T17:47:00.000-07:002008-10-18T17:50:21.930-07:00If You Give a Man a Fish...Null Set- How would I find a book on Luke's audience for Jesus?skybalon the librarian- Do you mean the community that would've first read the Gospel of Luke or more the sociological and cultural context of Jesus' life suggested in Luke? Null Set- ...skybalon the librarian- Or... do you mean the literary audience in Luke, the people the author has receive Jesus' message Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-41344681518060814132008-10-18T15:19:00.000-07:002008-10-18T15:20:41.151-07:00Having Eyes, Do You Not See?"The latest newsletter by an Inland Republican women's group depicts Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama surrounded by a watermelon, ribs and a bucket of fried chicken, prompting outrage in political circles."..."I absolutely apologize to anyone who was offended. That clearly wasn't my attempt."The PEClearly. I love these apologies. "If I offended anyone..."Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-22695533511948354612008-10-16T18:36:00.000-07:002008-10-16T18:39:09.216-07:00What Is That All Over The Walls and Floor?Liberation theology was an absolute necessity if the establishment was going to continue to control the minds of minorities. If a person of a minority group had not invented it, the liberal establishment most certainly would have created it. Vine Deloria Jr. in For This LandIt's my mind, man, 'cos it's totally been blown.Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-38432379125632031092008-10-16T09:33:00.000-07:002008-10-16T09:34:15.270-07:00What Are You Gonna Do, Vote for Someone Else?I know people, dyed in the wool, Limbaugh-loving, don't care about policy just the R after the name, if the GOP says "up is down" then up is down, Republican people, who despite their ideological loyalty still have to exist, and in their existence have had to face choices that McCain dismissed last night with scorn and air quotes. Maybe I can assume Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-81189551869843930832008-10-16T09:29:00.000-07:002008-10-16T09:32:53.121-07:00If You Watch This, You're a TerroristUntil we have a gigantic- GIGANTIC- meteor hurtling toward earth, or spaceships hovering over DC, or a nuclear suitcase bomb hidden somewhere in the country, I remain unconvinced.Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-36063696725043868102008-10-15T17:18:00.000-07:002008-10-15T17:22:15.783-07:00Build Zion With Blood and Jerusalem With WrongLast night at our Quaker Peace Fellowship meeting we watched Taxi to the Dark Side.Infuriating. But as I was preparing for it, writing up the curriculum, as it were, I was struck by the difficulty of describing a dependence on torture as anything other than a kind of faith. I offered this as part of the discussion material: Relying on or accepting Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-53247845592710915642008-10-15T12:51:00.000-07:002008-10-15T21:08:39.295-07:00The Times They Are a'Changin'Well, Replace "Times" with "Old Racists" and "a'Changin'" With "a'Thankfully Dyin'-Off"Or it could alternately be called How Cute“I’ve always been against the blacks,” said Mr. Rowell, who is in his 70s, recalling how he was arrested for throwing firecrackers in the black section of town. But now that he has three biracial grandchildren — “it was really rough on me” —Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-58211155012741511352008-10-15T12:48:00.000-07:002008-10-15T12:50:08.058-07:00Impenetrability! That's What I Say“I would think of him as I would of another of mixed race,” said Glenn Reynolds, 74, a retired textile worker in Martinsville, Va., and a former supervisor at a Goodyear plant. “God taught the children of Israel not to intermarry. You should be proud of what you are, and not intermarry.”Mr. Reynolds, standing outside a Kroger grocery store, described Mr. Obama asSkybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-2237537838803766812008-10-14T15:57:00.000-07:002008-10-14T15:58:36.486-07:00This Makes SenseSkybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-7857008776578648402008-10-14T15:29:00.000-07:002008-10-14T15:30:16.566-07:00Where Would You Even Begin?"If Obama were a white Democratic nominee named Barry O'Malley, the GOP would be going after him twice as hard. But many liberals would still caterwaul about fomenting hatred and racism, because that's what they always do."LA TimesHey... I'm an idiot, too. Why don't I have an LA Times column?Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-60277655781382387982008-10-14T15:28:00.000-07:002008-10-14T16:03:24.601-07:00We Could Just Leave"With time running out for the conclusion of an agreement governing American forces in Iraq, nervous negotiators have begun examining alternatives that would allow U.S. troops to stay beyond the Dec. 31 deadline, according to U.S. and Iraqi officials."Washington PostSo do we say nothing, apply no pressure, because this has no impact on our 401(K)s? Except that it does. Do we Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-3989607350466388672008-10-13T20:51:00.000-07:002008-10-14T13:15:54.572-07:00Why Doesn't He Just Start His Own Church?"A week ago, Father Geoffrey Farrow stood before his Roman Catholic parishioners in Fresno and delivered a sermon that placed him squarely at odds with his church over gay marriage.With Proposition 8 on the November ballot, and his own bishop urging Central Valley priests to support its definition of traditional marriage, Farrow told congregants he felt Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-32798375299076798522008-10-13T19:44:00.000-07:002008-10-13T19:49:11.773-07:00Whether It's Hindu, Buddha, AllahJust so you know, God, uh Hindu, has been saying some pretty crazy stuff about you. Hindu.No, Hindu, you know... the god with the dancey arms and the elephant head. Oh.Really? I always thought his name was Hindu. Okay.Well you know he's pulling for Obama and if he wins, well, I don't know if I should repeat what he's been saying, but it's not pretty... I had a Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-84059564254188192402008-10-10T13:48:00.000-07:002008-10-10T13:49:13.933-07:00History Is Caged*A completely irrelevant man once said:"Is this true Christian religion to see so much preaching, praying, sermons, lectures and to see so many blind and lame, poor men and women, and children up and down the streets, and at the steeple-house doors, is not this an ill savour among you and in you, and the high profession ye profess? "George Fox, in To All The Magistrates in London*Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-71127115823166855492008-10-10T13:16:00.000-07:002008-10-10T13:17:18.493-07:00It's About Heritage, Not HateSo some students at a Quaker university in Oregon hung an image of Barack Obama from a tree. Really. I know that sounds bad on the surface but we should remember that hanging a black man from a tree is an age-old form of American protest. And if you look at the situation in context you can understand the act. There was a note attached indicating that the demonstratorsSkybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-46476045175056449222008-10-10T12:47:00.000-07:002008-10-10T12:57:21.149-07:00So How Do We Tell If She's Made of Wood?I get it. I just want to put that out there at the beginning so that if, when reading this, you think, "You just don't get it," you will know that I, in fact, do get it. The McCain-Palin campaign can't possibly believe that the intense fear and white resentment they are stoking will not hit a ceiling. Granted, Republicanism of the past 40 years or so has Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-77293836419594195662008-10-09T21:15:00.000-07:002008-10-09T21:16:58.824-07:00Laugh Now Cry Laterskybalon- Hey look what finally came-Qweenbean- What? skybalon- My Obama buttonsQweenbean- Ooohhhh, those are gonna be worth a lot of money when he's assassinated.Too soon?Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-8907428535593475932008-10-07T16:13:00.000-07:002008-10-07T16:14:07.009-07:00Jesus, In Your Heart You Know He's RightWe, like many other congregations, have a sign on our church property that offers passersby some clever church saying or other. Right now it says something like "Real Change Comes From Jesus". Although on one side of it there is a "typo". A couple of character tiles were left up so it says "Real Change Comes From Jesus N,?" Really.I think to demonstrate howSkybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-54883115409121412072008-10-07T15:43:00.000-07:002008-10-07T15:54:02.876-07:00Wait a Second!I just realized something. If Barack Obama becomes president, then that means we've opened the door to all kinds of people being president. Now I get what people are so worried about.Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-74203708560969404492008-10-07T15:41:00.000-07:002008-10-07T15:42:51.756-07:00See, The System WorksFor the first time, a federal judge has ordered the Bush administration to release prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, ordering 17 Chinese Muslims to be brought to his courtroom on Friday.LA TimesTake that, hippies. Six years later, four years after being cleared of any wrong-doing, these 17 prisoners have been ordered released. Of course they haven't been released yet, and if Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-30060988183824878252008-10-07T14:58:00.000-07:002008-10-07T14:59:20.015-07:00Well, Now I'm ConvincedSpace Rock Found on Collision Course With EarthABC NewsThere you go. Alien invasion, an asteroid hitting the earth, zombies, or some other apocalyptic scenario requires we have a black president.Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-10899626514353014562008-10-06T19:46:00.000-07:002008-10-07T15:03:00.006-07:00True DatThis is presently my favorite line in the world...The Republican Party used to specialize in gimlet-eyed, steel-rim, crepe-soled common sense and then it was taken over by crooked preachers who demand Americans trust them because they're packing a Bible and God sent them on a mission to enact lower taxes, less government. Except when things crash, and then government has to pick up the Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-86770373739374784402008-10-03T15:00:00.000-07:002008-10-03T15:04:27.659-07:00And a PonySo The Blonde Buddha feels pretty confident that Obama is going to be the next president. Polls are putting him in the 50% neighborhood right now but to my mind that's evidence of why he could very well not be. That anywhere around 40% of polled voters could have been paying any kind of attention, I mean any kind, even the most accidental glance at a local news teaser, and still supportSkybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-39503275318960403182008-10-03T11:29:00.000-07:002008-10-03T11:40:15.156-07:00The Difference Between A Pitbull and a Hackey MomOkay I'm a big lame so more debate stuff. Watching the DNC, I was taken by Joe Biden's biography.* So again, last night, when Biden peeled back a layer of sexism and retold how his experience and concerns as someone who has lost loved ones and as a single parent are no less real because he has a penis, I was again struck by the story and moved by Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-7319602073168699732008-10-02T22:22:00.000-07:002008-10-02T22:24:44.077-07:00When Students Do It It's Called CheatingDid you know that Augustine's thoughts on sexuality were nuts? No? That's okay, a lot of people don't know what Augustine wrote about matters of sex. Even a lot of Christians, who assume certain things about the history of their tradition don't know what Augustine wrote about matters of sex. That's not a big deal, why should they know? I mean I could think Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-52881893755741974412008-10-02T20:17:00.001-07:002008-10-02T20:17:45.850-07:00M'ehFine, everyone gets to be middle class. Government is the problem so we'll address it with more oversight... so Main Street doesn't hurt Wall Street... and we're a team of mavericks It would be four more years of "nukular", folks. Just saying. And Great. Because it wasn't a repeat of her Couric performance, I'm going to have to listen to people who suddenly feel justified in their still Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-11007060402239664252008-10-02T18:18:00.000-07:002008-10-02T18:32:28.470-07:00Duty IndeedOh except for that last one, okay, that can't stand. Paying taxes isn't a matter of duty or patriotism? Going for the ownership society, this time with healthcare? The present financing crisis is a result of that "ownership society". She's essentially saying we're a bunch of rubes and morons that can't run a country, remember how we screw things up? Doncha' hate the Federal government?Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-56451773445046016682008-10-02T18:10:00.001-07:002008-10-02T18:17:43.468-07:00UghSo John Mccain meant the fundamentals of the economy are the American workers... Hmmm do we address the high unemployment or the high worker productivity rewarded with lower wages and income disparity. That's strong? Hey... Don't live outside your means. That actually is good advice- any time, not just tough times. That's the advice Carter gave the country and Reagan said "Screw That, we're Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-60848200509943096762008-10-02T18:05:00.000-07:002008-10-02T18:09:59.781-07:00You Betcha!So it makes sense that Joe would be able to talk about regulation... (Big Government Demeecrat that he is)Ah shucks... Golly... She's looking down and blinking a lot isn't she? Well I'm glad somebody explained what John McCain meant about the fundamentals of the economy being strong.Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-62027671703488253122008-10-02T18:02:00.000-07:002008-10-02T18:05:43.457-07:00Hi, GwenWhat would an untoward outburst be?"Sarah, tell me about dinosaurs and cave men."She asked, "Can I call you Joe?" That sounds like some sort of vooddoo secret. Don't let her do it Joe, she knows spiritual warfare techniques.Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-43022938721839017052008-10-02T17:59:00.000-07:002008-10-02T18:02:17.817-07:00DemocracyDid you know that the debate is in St. Louis because Aunheiser-Busch (sp) are/is a huge donor to the Commisison on Presidential Debates? True.And they decide with the candidates in secret the format of the debates.Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13783896.post-15536368367616999682008-10-02T17:56:00.000-07:002008-10-02T17:58:30.301-07:00LiveBlogging Rulz!!!The back of Gwen Ifill's head... That's funny. When I picture Gwen Ifill in my head, she's wearing blue. C-Span it's like you exist to make our government lame.Skybalonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358538213950954323noreply@blogger.com0