Things Heard: e46v2

Wednesday, December 24th, 2008 at 9:49 am

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The (third?) most famous Christmas celebration?
The second being this one? … the first being the original Nativity of course.
A Christmas eve homily … and reflections from Bono.
The nativity icon, a very busy icon indeed, i.e., a lot is going on there.
Year in review … for gymnasts.
Jim notes what he considers the best Western icon of St. Nicholas of Myra (compare to a more typical Eastern depiction).
Sense and sight in the Middle East.
Humor in church.
Suggestions of first books if you want to read some Torrance.
Faith and Mr Bush.
Hmmm.
Yesterday’s prayer request … an update.
A question for Pakistan, do you welcome such “support”?
Not impressed with Mr Cheney, but also not reconciled (or considering) such things like the fact that Mr Cheney gives more than 70% of his income to charity.
Beauty from nature … of a technical nature.
A dark Christmas.
… therefore God exists.
Considering if … Rick Warren were Black.
On addiction to pornography.
Fatigue and environment.
The tropar for the pre-feast of the Nativity.
Are we not as dumb as previously thought?.

Things Heard: e46v1

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008 at 8:59 am

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Verse.
Turkey and the Ecumenical Patriarchate.
Lust … revisited?
Monastic and ordinary.
Aack! Someone (a blogger of note) to add to your prayer list.
He’d be the one to do it.
A historic time?
One truth.
Mr Erlich, Obama’s science advisor, and his past expertise noted.
Undersea … also note Benedict on Islam.
Indeed, although it took a little digging to figure out what it meant.
That‘s going to leave a smell.

Things Heard: e45v5

Friday, December 19th, 2008 at 10:27 am

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Considering “Merry Christmas”. I think the next person I exchange greetings with is going to get “Have a Nifty Nativity” from me.
Then and now, the intellectual elite during WWII and the current crises.
Sunny California, thanks to global warming (and yes, I know “weather is not climate” I’m just funnin’ y’all). 🙂
Memory Eternal.
A picture shared … with bikes.
Much ado about, well, very very little aka The Warren kerfuffle. From Ms Ham, the Jewish Atheist, and Mr Westmoreland-White.
Writing on religion, “all of them.”
Another option, bankruptcy.
Will it be money well spent?
Heh.
Saying nothing in reply.
“That’s why it’s covert?“
Resources for the Orthodox. (HT: Fr Gregory)
Regarding fear.
A film recommended.
Uhm, change the channel dude, duh. There are actually alternative choices out there.
Thoughts of a young girl, but wait ten years to see if it changes.
Horror.
The latest hints of Obama related scandal.
Obfuscation and consequence.
Verse and prose in parallel.
Virtue.

Things Heard: e45v4

Thursday, December 18th, 2008 at 3:31 pm

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Gun nuts.
Faith demonstrated in a life.
Unimpressed by Calvinistic overtones of the remake.
Cash and Christmas and lists.
Damning with faint praise.
The liturgical gangstas, I missed parts 1 and 2 … but this looks like a good series.
Oh, O, err, Antiphons.
Fields, charges, solar activity and climate.
Novak, is he taking the Barlaam side on the uncreated light debate? (The original article here).
What we need today.
Putting today’s market movement in perspective.
Self inflicted pain.
To make a grandmother proud.
That ‘splains it.
Insanity.
Verse.
On being loved.

Things Heard: e45v3

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008 at 10:55 am

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A common error of today’s stimulus packages, they all raise taxes … which counter the intended effect.
“Alcohol may have been involved” … ya think!?
Obama and the Blago scandal … the real problem … recalling the Plame and recall the shoes are on the other feet now. And no, I think it unlikely Obama did anything wrong … but then again, neither did anyone in the Plame fiasco either.
Uhm, non-violent protest involves a likelihood of jail time … its in the cards and not necessarily a bad thing.
On opinions.
A book recommendation for the younger set, and one which I jumped on for my daughter’s upcoming birthday. Another book here.
Cash and Mr Phelps.
Verry English.
A bunch of book recommendations. I concurr on Father Elijah (the book that should have replaced that execrable Dan Brown thing). It gives me pause on taking Anathem on the holidays though.
Simply amazing.
Cost cutting comes to health care. As the Instapundit (somewhat annoyingly often offers), “more please.”
For your prayer list.
A story to watch (and why).
Modern art.
We were “told” that this was just “GOP scare tactics”, hmmm.
Whatever. Color me unsurprised.
I’m fairly certain that’s satire, but I’m not sure.
Russian worship demographics.
Not about crass commercialism or ever repeating holiday music “classics” I think.
I remember baking a batch of beheaded gingerbread boys when we studied the French revolution back in the day.
Serious about Islam.
Bad news about the Good News.
Our (recent) debt and promises in perspective.
Mr Obama’s education choice.

Things Heard: e45v2

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008 at 10:30 am

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Chicago … Ayers and Obama yet again.
Not exactly kind humor … but I, alas, laughed.
Considering the future of (armed) conflict.
One family some time back … verse.
Speaking of verse …
If one considers that the zeitgeist of the age (or the nation) has will and intellect … this one has our number. One response.
Justice and the human brain.
Contra power sharing.
St. Nicholas of Myra shedding the Santa image?
Regulation about to strike the economy.
Oil prices considered.
The Democrats, standing tall against “standards”, makes y’all proud to be American I tell ya. 🙂
Modern notions of courtship.
Getting it wrong.
A leap of faith.
Nativity in DC canceled (for the foreseeable future I might add).
Stability and a map.
Mr Polamalu.
Ya think. Duh.
On freedom.

Things Heard: e45v1

Monday, December 15th, 2008 at 11:34 am

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The parable of the sane homeowner for Mr Chu our energy advisor.
Advent conspiracy.
Academics not in touch, hmmm.
Mr Madoff, his bilked buddies and their billions … and the KGB.
That’s right … and guess what have you heard of that Thomas Jefferson fellow? He owned actual slaves! How about George Washington. Him too. Golly.
Riders reactions to the Giro parcours.
You know, you’d think those mucking with the market would understand the least bit about … you know … market.
Modern Greece?
Christianity in China in the 6th century … forgotten?
Epistemology and art.

Things Heard: e44v5

Friday, December 12th, 2008 at 10:14 am

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Reflecting on devotions to Mary, Theotokos.
Prophecy and dating.
Taking the Christmas wars to a new level, as in “yer all going to hell.”
That jars with my back of the envelope notions of pricing, $147 -> $4/gallon gas but $100 -> $1.50? Shouldn’t it be about $2.3?
Man, planes, and YouTube.
There are rebates and then there are rebates.
Hmm. My redoubtable commenters will likely explain why that’s not bias.
Grasshopper bot.
Missing the companion piece in which Congress arrests itself for it’s very own (trillion dollar?) Ponzi scheme called “Social Security.”
OK, I’ve got the Rush part down, i.e., I don’t listen to him or for that matter any political radio programming.
A Movie recommendation or more precisely a question on one for the holiday gift exchanges.
Chavez and safety.
Elder abuse.
Benedict and Chesteron … on the same page.
Bringing academia to earth … a good goal for the academic (HT: Milton Stanley)
Blogging while hiding in the bathroom.
Mommy wars.
Artificial sex.
Zimbabwe.

Things Heard: e44v4

Thursday, December 11th, 2008 at 10:50 am

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Pray for the health of Fr John (of First Things).
9/11 already forgotten?
A claim “nobody does it like …”, do you agree?
That should clear that up.
Or … we need local government.
Hard advice for the blogger to take.
Keynes and Benedict on value.
Rank dishonesty in reporting … yet again.
Some history of the Church in Russia.
Arrests in Pakistan.
Source selection noted.
Considering the nativity.
Whores and Priests.
Justificatory liberalism.
Of beasties.
Kindergartners would work for less pay.
Gay day counterproductive.
Defending Obama’s Chicago origins … which presume (falsely perhaps) that Obama has done any amount of reforming.

Things Heard: e44v3

Wednesday, December 10th, 2008 at 9:28 am

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For those seeking an Obama connection to the Blago scandal … look no further. Another view of the scandal. And finally for those who don’t believe there’s such a thing as media bias … evidence of media bias that should be hard to set aside.
History and lost causes.
Hippos hang gliding.
Joe Carter looks at numbers. I think he’d be interested in Conway’s view as well … this book, Surreal Numbers, is a cute introduction.
Why the auto rescue is a hard sell. More on that here.
Interesting poster art.
Christmas as a (former) atheist remembered.
Get Religion looks at the Cao election.
Four days in Richmond.

Things Heard: e44v2

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 at 8:43 am

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A book recommended.
Human evil overrated?
So he can concentrate on bilking millions (billions?) off the climate ruse.
Will we follow suit?
Some film (DVD) gift suggestions, I’d offer the Rocky and Bullwinkle “season” collections as well.
A homily Christ the King vs church and state.
Orthodox Bible commentary resources noted.
A conversation imagined.
Mercy, cruelty and that five legged sheep.
The perfect girl.
Memory eternal.
Obama seeks a clue.

Things Heard: e44v1

Monday, December 8th, 2008 at 10:12 am

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Is this a consequence of subsidizing drugs to Africa? What is free … is not valued the same way. From the same source, micro-credit … seems to work.
Two headlines which both say basically the same thing but …. not the same way.
Macrina says … “Oh dear” … in a good way.
Dems and the GOP, parallel constructions.
Of man and a rock.
Debating resources … on sovereignty … it seems to me Jouvenel’s The Pure Theory of Politics and his ideas of static vs dynamic political science have something to contribute.
Secrets shared.
Ten energy myths via the guardian (HT: Sam Norton)
India, US and Pakistan considered.
Ayer’s viewed from the left … post-election, when that family friend of Mr Obama’s no longer needs to be defended.
ElBaradei.
China and the recession.
PP and rape.
The first freedom.
St. Augustine and the Jew.
Heh.
Islam?
Job loss and sex.
The Cuban death rattle.
Shed no tears for those kids.
An artistic choice, for me … alas, hammers.
Season wrap.
What’s in a name (on a map).
A visit east.
Very sexy lady … and (oddly?) enough not trashy at all.
Lamps of Rome.
Theodicy.
Heroes of former eras and MySpace. Achilles?
Santa Claus and a film.
Huh?
Heh.

Things Heard: e43v5

Friday, December 5th, 2008 at 10:13 am

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Cooking and the 3rd world.
Spot on.
Memory eternal … links, Voices, Fr John, and Koinonia.
Oleg at HuffPo.
Those silly kids at Planned Parenthood at it again.
Dishonest reporting.
Amy has links, so does Brandon.
But why the outrage … it’s cute!
Headlines and puns.
A phrase.
Telsa loses.
Bad results from the sexual revolution.
Hopefully, it will be memorable not fatal.
College, gatekeeper.
Jonah … (not the new Metropolitan but the narrative).
An important change at the defense department.
That shack thing reviewed.
Playing with numbers (and de Bruijn sequences too).
Diversity noted.
3 feet and a hill named for Crack.
Those voters.
And for Friday … pictures.

Things Heard: e43v4

Thursday, December 4th, 2008 at 9:53 am

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A list of the best theology of 2008 (HT: JT).
Now in power … Dems soften on torture? What’s next?
Holder and Rich … yes, those Democrats always looking out for the little guy, where little guys happen to be wealthy contributors evading taxes. I’m still waiting for the Democratic explanation why a guy who’ll push/work for a Rich pardon is the guy to be AG.
Conversations imagined.
Lo jacking (baby) Jesus.
Zoooom, baby zooom.
Of Mormons and Prop 8.
Jewelry.
Safe … until CNN arrived.

Things Heard: e43v3

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 at 10:08 am

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For historical reasons, It’s just a good thing he didn’t suggest “pinning stars of David” to coats.
Derrida and Islam.
1 billion.
One year for an oil platform … more time for some other things.
Lout and hero.
Lights and bikes.
Advent commercial version and the non-commercial.
One youth and the destruction via sport, money and drugs.
More human?
Cinema.
Many books … one year.
Success and the silence.
On the economic crises.
Noting motion and noise north of the border.
Happy blogiversary!
My alma mater.
Hoarfrost, as art.
Don’t brandish if you don’t intend to use it … a first mistake of Mr Obama’s with consequence?
Anti-empiricism and media.
If the terrorists in Mumbai intended to foment hostility between Hindu India and Moslem Pakistan … why locate, torture, and kill Jews?
Lewis and Bono.
A Saint remembered.
Seeking wisdom.
Just say … no.

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