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Things Heard: e60v1

Monday, March 23rd, 2009 at 10:04 am 
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  1. The feminization of Christianity (and Jewish Orthodoxy) … I think that the example of the role of women in the Church in Russia during communist rule is an important point. The women save the church there in times of stress and the prosperity our culture enjoys currently riding the petroleum bubble is perhaps as stressful as persecution, just not in so obvious a manner.
  2. Bioethics and modern (protestant) denominations as stress as well.
  3. Credit crunch? Maybe not.
  4. But in our minds … perceptions differ.
  5. A perception of the Geithner/Obama relationship.
  6. Dissent in mythical economic consensus.
  7. That’s not where I’d place math in its role in our modern society … and it doesn’t have to “inspire any kid” just the ones with real talent.
  8. Church and state … in the UK.
  9. A prayer request.
  10. Zap.
  11. Boom.
  12. POV.
  13. School.
  14. Verse.
  15. Bang.
  16. Two arches.
  17. May God grant them many years.
  18. Origen.
  19. NPR, fairly unbalanced.
  20. Examining economists.
  21. Well, Congress gives many major league sports, baseball in particular special status regarding anti-trust. Why shouldn’t they limit their profits? It always strikes me as odd the “free market” American sports are heavily protected and structured while socialist Europe has a free wheeling market driven sports environment, e.g., compare baseball to European cycling.
  22. Considering Orthodoxy.
  23. Uninformed (or unlettered) liberals?

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Things Heard: e59v5

Friday, March 20th, 2009 at 9:25 am 
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  1. Mr Obama offers a message to Iran. And Iran responds.
  2. More Lenten thoughts.
  3. My view is “not much” in a positive fashion, but the last month or so is showing he can certainly have a substantial negative impact.
  4. Of being young and foolish.
  5. Heh.
  6. That poster was hung in our office for a year or so.
  7. Armenia again.
  8. What moroons. And more of the same.
  9. Context. Context matters.
  10. Of wealth and power.
  11. Killer shrimp.
  12. Hanging out in Dorking.
  13. Of person and God.
  14. Time on their hands.
  15. Another quote from the Pope.
  16. Make music via flash. Sort of.

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Things Heard: e59v4

Thursday, March 19th, 2009 at 9:27 am 
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  1. Insert your own reference to Bill Clinton’s example here.
  2. The pope and his quote on AIDS in Africa described here.
  3. More on Benedict here as well.
  4. How indeed can you love the other without listening.
  5. OK, that ‘splains it … or not.
  6. The shoes.
  7. Is that how American’s learn about other cultures?
  8. As long as super-model doesn’t actually mean super-model.
  9. Not impressed by a modernist heritage.
  10. Liberals now accuse Mr Geithner of being a GOP stooge.
  11. Ezekiel.
  12. When in Rome (take pictures).
  13. A letter on chastity.
  14. Penal substitution under attack … rightly so from my point of view.
  15. A film recommended.
  16. Don’t get thrown under that bus.
  17. A Diebold kerfuffle germinating.
  18. Another argument against abortion.
  19. Obama’s four riders of his economic apocalypse.
  20. the “Buck stops here” not seen here.
  21. So … “gets better mileage than the one it replaces” … when will any automaker make a car that I can buy that improves on the mileage my 2001 Insight? I’d likely buy it.

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Things Heard: e59v3

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009 at 9:16 am 
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  1. Ms Midgely praised.
  2. A question, does a breaking of campaign promises haunt a candidate.
  3. Rugged Yankee (?) individualism and the fall.
  4. From somewhat left of center, two from the Moderate Voice … one piece having buyers remorse and another piece which doesn’t seem to understand Mr Limbaugh is a government official and “approval” is not the rating that matters one whit.
  5. On suffering as martyrdom (and as a reminder martyrdom etymologically means witness).
  6. A smooch.
  7. AIG money trail. More here (of course they didn’t read the bill … they didn’t give themselves time).
  8. A prayer request.
  9. One key to happiness.
  10. Doing sums.
  11. Mr Fareed Zakaria has a post which is being discussed … I read one of his books and found it horrible, filled with any number of little and large factual errors which continually distracted from and diminished any larger points he was trying to make. So, instead of “Is Fareed Zakaria Serious” (the lede of the linked post) one might ask, why does any one take Mr Zakaria seriously.
  12. Fear of children.
  13. Le tour.
  14. Verse.

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Things Heard: e59v2

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009 at 9:40 am 
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  1. Yeee-haaa.
  2. Two for St. Patrick’s feast day, here and here.
  3. Meanwhile the fast continues.
  4. A defense of Mr Madison, for my part I don’t think he anticipated Mr Arnold and what later became the get-out-the-vote machines.
  5. No. No No No No. Newspapers do not need federal protection.
  6. Speaking of media, some thoughts on Mr Stewart.
  7. Hmmm, no communal societies? But, I really liked The Gods Must Be Crazy.
  8. A publisher speaks. Oh, I received the book (being a blog neighbor and a conservative … thanks Henry!) and a review will be forthcoming before week’s end.
  9. Contra optimism.
  10. Love of other and memory eternal.
  11. Old and New (Testament).
  12. Thoughts on Mr Obama and religion.
  13. A film, Ratzinger’s Faith recommended.
  14. Capitalism … and a criticism of Ms Rand.
  15. Patristics.
  16. Loss of faith, oddly enough “faith in polls” was not an item polled.
  17. Exactly right.
  18. This might make a lot of sense, when dealing with a foreign party, listening to the thoughts of those who have the most to lose and are very close to the situation might be wise.
  19. Well, when trying to hold on to delusions about the other, it helps if you over-generalize … and are innumerate to boot. Uhm, “astoundingly large margins” and “sweeping victory?” Uhm, it seems that 2-3% margin of victory looms ever larger.
  20. PC stifling conversations and consequence.
  21. A rephrasing.
  22. And … last but not least … zooooom, in a creepy way.

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Things Heard: e59v1

Monday, March 16th, 2009 at 9:23 am 
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  1. Considering past investment bank bailouts.
  2. A letter to one considering leaving the church.
  3. Lent and the economic crises.
  4. Considering Mr Geithner.
  5. Girls on bikes.
  6. Manliness.
  7. Hmmm.
  8. Issues with the stimulus.
  9. Box office woes shouldn’t stop Mr Gore from raking in millions via the stimulus package.
  10. Considerations on the Brazilian abortion case.
  11. St. Gregory Palamas and seeing the uncreated light.
  12. The recovery could take 4-5 years?
  13. Soooo …. who long for the other shoe to drop on this one?
  14. Well, you how else can they afford under-the-table kickbacks?
  15. Considering the BSG finale.
  16. Noting St. Benedict (although I though it was St. John Cassian who brought monasticism to the West).
  17. “I suppose it would be better …” (and I concur it would be better).
  18. Of not letting go.
  19. In which “go drink carbonated cow’s piss” is not fiction?
  20. Exonerating (partially) Mao? With Holodomor denial to boot no less. Which faces this problem too.
  21. On using your hands and the whole higher vs lower professions thing.

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Things Heard: e58v5

Friday, March 13th, 2009 at 10:26 am 
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  1. Taken with Taken.
  2. It is taken as a given that we need “good powerful science teaching”. One wonders if that is truly necessary sometimes. I’d always also followed that assumption, but do we need to teach more science to the non-scientists … or do we have to identify and encourage those few who are truly gifted at science? Some math and physics can be found here.
  3. Bike messenger delivery of girls?
  4. Joe and the Jews. More Jewish cultural musings here as well.
  5. Faith, works, and (?) liturgy.
  6. Heh.
  7. Let your yes mean yes.
  8. Architectural contrasts.
  9. Pro-choice, some criticism.
  10. Systematic theology as oxymoron. Perhaps pneumatological theology might be better?
  11. ESCR, Obama and Orthodoxy.
  12. The key to the problem with the liberal/progressive agenda.
  13. Repentance and lamentation a missing element? Might I suggest visiting a presanctified Orthodox liturgy on a Wednesday or Friday night next week?
  14. Same sex love.
  15. Recommended podcasts.
  16. The stimulus bill put in cultural context.
  17. Job. Not theodicy?
  18. A suggestion.
  19. I couldn’t tell if that was satire or not.
  20. Change (or not).
  21. Could religion be a factor?
  22. Oops.
  23. A question asked.
  24. Two chapels.
  25. A better bike (for the third world).

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Things Heard: e58v4

Thursday, March 12th, 2009 at 9:17 am 
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  1. Mr Obama promised to fight earmarks. Oops. A little on some of the earmarks in the latest spending … thing.
  2. Mr Obama spoke critically of Mr Bush’s use of signing statements calling them an abuse of power … waits less than 2 months to follow suit.
  3. The Christian carnival is up.
  4. Science and stem cells, two comparable views, here and here, both from supporters of the research.
  5. Underground in Russia.
  6. A second decalogue.
  7. With the economic woes, the gap between rich and poor shrinks yet oddly enough the cheers of those who think that’s important have been mighty quiet on that front.
  8. Modesty and the economy.
  9. Another author to investigate.
  10. A film as well?
  11. Dr and Mr J&H + Tinkerbell?
  12. Signs and portents.
  13. “Those type of people” in heaven?
  14. A faith journey, part one of an interview.
  15. Stinking liar!
  16. A generation speaks?
  17. Considering the Frum/Limbaugh matter (and a little pot/kettle action).
  18. A list.
  19. A real Iron Man.
  20. Is Mr Putin a hero of the global warming crowd?
  21. Bailouts and salary caps … and Academe?
  22. Mr Biden remains clueless.

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Things Heard: e58v3

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 at 9:15 am 
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  1. Church as a noetic Jeremiah.
  2. “Hope he fails” and a little hypocrisy from the left via cricket races.
  3. Those last moments and eschatological fate.
  4. Time on hand.
  5. Geek chic.
  6. Mean/not mean? I say not.
  7. A look back at a look forward and education.
  8. Zap.
  9. Hmm, will inexperience show up in the comments?
  10. I “vant to suck your … fishy parts?“
  11. Paglia on the Rush/Obama kerfuffle.
  12. Cue, “Talk to the Animals”.
  13. Things to do with filters (HT: Swap blog).
  14. Not just a crook. A fool. With some unusual concurrence?
  15. A toast.
  16. Mr Obama as “conditioner”.
  17. Kinda what I said on the popularity of Keynesian economics in politics.
  18. Ooops.
  19. On that “robust” economy (from a comment yesterday) of the 70s and 80s.
  20. Well, I’m firmly in category “B”.

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Things Heard: e58v2

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009 at 9:09 am 
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  1. Art and arithmetic.
  2. Yes, and a majority of Americans want a pony with that too.
  3. 40 martyrs almost 1700 years ago.
  4. Truth or (and?) unity.
  5. Makhala-something-or-other.
  6. Another not-quite-as-far away place … and bananas too.
  7. A conversation between a Christian and an atheist (on faith).
  8. A conversation (of sorts) with a liberal.
  9. Weirdness in SF … that’s not disgusting?
  10. The life use cycle of houses.
  11. Drink, drank, drunk.
  12. Some remarks on Mr Obama’s stem cell order. More here.
  13. Collapse and war … or the reverse.
  14. Church and state.
  15. So. Would you buy these?
  16. I don’t think that word “consistent” means what he thinks it does.
  17. Not socialists.
  18. Heh. Logic and Lent.

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Things Heard: e58v1

Monday, March 9th, 2009 at 9:01 am 
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  1. What’s worse than poverty?
  2. Tracking Mr Obama’s views on wiretapping.
  3. Hunting for a reasonable explanation for Mr Obama’s wish to require people to do that which they think immoral.
  4. The history of the synodikon.
  5. The rabbit and Lent.
  6. This may get discussed this week, and our prayers will be with the family.
  7. Undercounting liberals in academia.
  8. The Obama administration and the general lack of epistemological humility.
  9. Friday’s Akathist ..  a preview.
  10. Art and work.
  11. Newsprint and trends.
  12. Just move along.
  13. A book offer.
  14. Links from Brandon at Siris.
  15. That unreasonably horrible treatment of prisoner.
  16. When editing video.
  17. Lending, borrowing and morality.
  18. What the world needs, a bathing suit that doesn’t get wet.
  19. Verse and the bike.

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Things Heard: e57v5

Friday, March 6th, 2009 at 9:26 am 
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  1. In brief, stimulus. And the multipliers might not be what is expected.
  2. Unimpressed with a meeting.
  3. The economy and some criticism of the popularized viewpoint.
  4. A speech, and some changes in a man.
  5. Continuing discussion on theodicy.
  6. St. Theodora.
  7. Tartars in Russia.
  8. Of Eucharist and frequency.
  9. Contra the prosperity Gospel (cue background music Truly Scrumptious from Chitty Chitty).
  10. A prayer request.
  11. Depression and the Christian life.
  12. A thought for the day.
  13. Professional speechwriter blog on Mr Obama’s teleprompter addiction.
  14. Demonizing the rich.
  15. Heh. (HT: Mad Minerva)
  16. Wrestling, sex and a bad idea noted.
  17. Values and development.
  18. An interesting new development.
  19. Mr Freeman.

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Things Heard: e57v4

Thursday, March 5th, 2009 at 9:20 am 
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  1. One view of the ecnomic problems facing the world today. Another, with an Asian focus, here.
  2. Good advice. I need to work on the reading slow part … although a busy life helps there.
  3. Hmmm.
  4. A post I disagree with at On the Square, the First Things blog … although I think the conclusion of the post disagrees with the content.
  5. The desire of Mr Obama to fail meme disabused.
  6. When not studying (Greek?).
  7. Plugging lefse and a kitchen toy.
  8. Considering peer review.
  9. Bad pictoral pun.
  10. Confucious and … the Desert?
  11. A poll (cricket race?) in Pakistan.
  12. Hmm, I’m guessing a good peaty single malt isn’t on the ticket either.
  13. A suggestion for banking.
  14. A two parter of advice for the lay detection of junk science, part one and part two.
  15. Stranger than fiction.
  16. A series begins … Diesels you can’t get in the US but should be able to … and I too am a fan of the modern small diesel engine as one of our families cars is a VW TDI Golf.
  17. Teaching and a problem … which in a sane world would not be a problem at all.
  18. Does the bill rejecting the fairness doctrine contains seeds of the same.

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Things Heard: e57v3

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009 at 9:56 am 
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  1. Of fools and money.
  2. Lent and Job.
  3. Whence the inflation?
  4. Niceness.
  5. Beatitude and blessing.
  6. When rational … isn’t.
  7. In which I get mentioned … in a somewhat confusing manner, as Mr Kuznicki is labeling “not libertarian” a place and time (the 18th century Western backwoods “folkway”) which he has in the past admitted as libertarian. I’ll work on a more substantive reply to this tonight. I wonder if Mr Kuznicki read my original essay at all and not just Mr Anderson’s summation.
  8. Tabular awesome inspired by elemental patterns.
  9. Bond. Inspired by “M?”
  10. That pene-enclave thing.
  11. Gay rights or something else?
  12. Mr Obama and company channeling Nero?
  13. “Obama thinks it’s time to get back in the market” … from a man (Obama) who never bought stocks even with a 6 figure salary and 7 figure book sales.
  14. And they want free money and a pony in their backyard too.
  15. Anti-semitism and anti-immigration bias on the rise in Europe?
  16. Unhappy moderates.
  17. Ms Sebellus … catholic?
  18. A trend to give atheist libertarians and believing big-government people pause.
  19. Looking at “stimulus”.
  20. Well, one reason is that is ignored, is that informing people that Joe Biden is not the sharpest tool in the shed isn’t news.

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Things Heard: e57v2

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009 at 9:10 am 
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  1. Waiting for God’s justice.
  2. What the Left won’t admit, “It is becoming increasingly clear that Obama’s proposed policies go well beyond what we might need just to respond to the economic crisis; he’s making a bid for great changes in national policy.”
  3. On the “hoping he’ll fail” meme.
  4. For those who claim the Pope is “out of touch” … a comparison.
  5. As one who thinks that there should be a Constitutional barrier preventing the government to provide insurance (because politicians ignore actuarial data to get votes) … perhaps they should get out of the loan business too for much the same reason.
  6. Housing bubble.
  7. Payroll spending.
  8. Boing.
  9. Wall street, global warming science, likely just a few of many casualties of “over-reliance” on computer modeling.
  10. A question.
  11. Reading in Job for Lent.
  12. A problem with captalism, the productive and competent people are all busy doing things leaving government to the ninnyhammers.
  13. Global warming taking a nap?
  14. Theodicy.
  15. Fasting from idle talk and a few other things.
  16. Sudan.
  17. Markets and the Ukraine.
  18. Coffee and the endurance athlete.
  19. Math links.
  20. Now and then, a quote.

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