Posts from the ‘Political circus’ Category
I thought the Orthodox Study Bible footnote to Luke 12:51 (“Do you suppose that I came to give peace on earth? I tell you, not at all, but rather division.”) was worth extra attention. There are two kinds of peace. False peace, to which Chist refers here, is a shallow harmony that results from ignoring […]
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Via Mediaite: I think I may have just dislocated my shoulder from cringing too hard. In what is one of the most awkward White House press briefings I’ve yet seen, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney somehow manages to say both not enough and entirely too much. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney was asked why […]
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Recently, talk of civility has been in the news. It’s also something I’ve heard Orthodox friends bemoan. Too much shrillness, not enough mannerly dialoguing. That’s right, of course, when it comes to things that don’t really matter. But the closer you get to the front lines, the louder the noise gets. It is true that […]
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From this morning’s reading in “Patristic Theology” by Fr. John Romanides: “For real equality to exist, the human personality must first be healed. If it is not healed, any ideological system whatsoever, no matter how perfect it may be, cannot be implemented, because instead of genuine representatives of the ideology working for the system, those […]
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As of 12:47, the situation on the Somali pirates was that(*) they still have the American captain hostage and that “other pirate-held ships were being moved towards the area.” As of 10:47, the president still didn’t want to even comment about the situation. This, after the White House’s official word, hours after the hijacking yesterday, that […]
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“The elite journalists, I repeat, got Obama wrong. The troglodytes got him right.” Um, thanks. I think. That comes from this article on three smart-guy journalists that have become apostates to Obama-worship. Same article gives us this ‘aha’ moment from Christopher (Son-of-William) Buckley: “Government is getting bigger and will stay bigger. Just remember … that a government […]
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It’s an overcast Sunday, Greg is upstairs taking a Sunday nap and so, for some reason, the mysterious little voices in my head told me … it’s time for the poncho! This would be the genuine Stylish Reversible Celtic Poncho that I purchased so proudly a couple years ago, only to find that Greg has […]
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Well, thank goodness. Here I was thinking that the guys driving the bus were insane. Now that Fred has explained it all to me, I feel so much better. Phew! There’s a load off.
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I’ve grown used to the fact that an average newspaper story on President Bush goes something like this: Adolph Hitler President Bush goose-stepped his lying, chimp-like little self to the pressroom today to announce another of his completely idiotic ideas… Whereas the average Obama story goes something like this: President John F. Kennedy President-elect Obama and his lovely […]
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Some of the mainstream media are acting like a person with a hangover trying to figure out what happened last night. The Washington Post’s ombudsman deals with ‘morning after’ guilt over the paper being in the can for Obama: The Post provided a lot of good campaign coverage, but readers have been consistently critical of the lack […]
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