Archive for July, 2004
Saturday, July 31st, 2004
If I Were Still In Sacramento…
I would get one of these: ‘Girlie Men’ Are Wearing Party Pride Fri Jul 30, 9:15 AM ET SAN FRANCISCO - “Girlie men” are wearing their party pride. San Francisco-based fashion designer Sarah Lefton is selling baseball style T-shirt that read “Sacramento Girlie Men” like mad. She put California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (news - web […]
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Saturday, July 31st, 2004
I Would Too
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Friday, July 30th, 2004
Driver Beaten Up for Observing Speed Limit
Fri Jul 30,10:07 AM ET BERLIN (Reuters) - A German truck driver beat up a motorist he believed was driving too slowly in a case of ‘road rage’ in a country famous for having no limits on stretches of its motorways. The trucker got in a fight with a car driver who had been slowing […]
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Friday, July 30th, 2004
Strongly Religious Students Aren’t Uniformly Conservative
Study: Strongly Religious Students Aren’t Uniformly Conservative By Jonah D. King Religion News Service (RNS) Strongly religious college students have conservative views on sex, abortion, gay rights and drugs, but more liberal views on gun control and abortion, a new study says. The study by UCLA’s Higher Education Research Institute polled nearly 3,700 college juniors […]
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Friday, July 30th, 2004
Triumph of the Trivial
I have felt this way for a long time: ———————————————————————————————————————— July 30, 2004 OP-ED COLUMNIST Triumph of the Trivial By PAUL KRUGMAN nder the headline “Voters Want Specifics From Kerry,” The Washington Post recently quoted a voter demanding that John Kerry and John Edwards talk about “what they plan on doing about health care for […]
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Friday, July 30th, 2004
Next, The Inquisition?
Oregon bishop requires lay people to affirm church teachings if they want to take on larger role By AVIVA L. BRANDT ASSOCIATED PRESS PORTLAND, Ore., July 30 — As a lay liturgical minister and a cantor, Wilma Hens was a leader for years at her Roman Catholic parish in the central Oregon city of Bend. […]
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Friday, July 30th, 2004
So Much For Bush’s Fiscal Concervatism
Headline: Budget deficit to swell to $445 billion
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Thursday, July 29th, 2004
Oh-Oh!
In other political news, two out of three Kucinich voters say they will vote for John Kerry, but the other one remains undecided.
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Thursday, July 29th, 2004
These Made Me Laugh
> The following are supposedly actual English > subtitles used in films from Hong Kong: > > · I am darn unsatisfied to be killed in this way. > > · Gun wounds again? > > · Same old rules: no eyes, no groin. > > · A normal person wouldn’t steal pituitaries. > > […]
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Thursday, July 29th, 2004
Oh?, part 2
Pope John Paul (news - web sites) has a challenger. Papal pretender Gregorio XVII is leader of a self-styled church in Spain who says God crowned him after Pope Paul VIs 1978 death, that Satan controls the Vatican (news - web sites) and that the devil will crucify him at the start of an apocalyptic […]