Short and quick post today–very sleepy and tired, not sleeping well last couple of nights. (Hey, look at me, I’m doing what bloggers do!) When U.S. troops invaded Iraq in March 2003, the Bush administration predicted that the war would be self-financing and that rebuilding the nation would cost less than $2 billion. That’s the [...]
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Beginning of the end?
Hopefully the end of Bush, not the end of “free” America (or what’s left of a free America). BoingBoing recently posted on an announced plan from the Bush administration which strives to acrue as much personal information (including family information) as possible on visitors to the U.S., discourage travel to the U.S., and basically make [...]
READ MORE »Making critical thinking and rational dicision making fun and entertaining!
I recently got a comment on one of my two year old posts: ♦ God’s Real Estate in which the poster brought up Pascal’s Wager as a reason to believe in God (the Christian one in particular). Another commenter supplied a link to a video that I found absolutely fantastic! It’s not religion related, by [...]
READ MORE »Philosophical validation to old arguments.
Quite some time ago a former friend and I engaged in some rousing debates about God, absolutism, relativism, morality, etc. He was an educated Christian apologist, well read and versed in apologetics and Christian philosophy, and I at the time was educated in pretty much nothing. Well, except I had been a semi-well read Christian [...]
READ MORE »Really is “the most magical place on earth!”
My wife, daughter and I returned from Orlando, Florida yesterday after a 5-day vacation. It was simply amazing! It exceeded all my expectations, fulfilled nearly none of my fears or worries, and quite simply–I didn’t want to leave. Even now I feel a mixture of happiness and elation as well as depressed longing as the [...]
READ MORE »Leavin’, on a jet plane.
In just a couple of hours the family and I will be off to Orlando!! (Hope we don’t die. I hate flying….)
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