Archive for December, 2008

WAY TOO MUCH FUN:wind chill and warmth for Christmas by Jean Snow VanOrden

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

They came from Houston, Texas; Portland, Oregon; Iwakuni, Japan, to gather for a momentous summit.  No, it wasn’t an international consortium collecting to consider the wisdom of the latest bailout. It was the gathering of my scattered family, one and all, for a Christmas together for the first time in many years.  Something far more [...]

THE TWISTED BIBLE AND THE CONVENIENT JESUS by Jean Snow VanOrden

Friday, December 12th, 2008

Christians are constantly being scolded from a variety of directions for how unChristian they are.  Waving the Bible in the face of  Christians and telling them (1) how idiotic it is (as in Jack Black’s wildly erroneous slams in his sly little musical attacking Prop 8 proponents,) or (2) how they’ve got the interpretation of [...]

BLACKLISTED: how do I feel about that by Jean Snow VanOrden

Friday, December 5th, 2008

Since the victory of Prop 8 in California, and the resulting analysis of the election statistics showing who was responsible  (which a rational analysis will show was not the small percentage of voters who are Mormons), I’ve seriously contemplated my status as a member of a “hateful” organization and group of people who bear the [...]

Sounds like a bailout to me: “The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.” Margarent Thatcher

Thursday, December 4th, 2008