Do any Delawareans out there see the strong irony in Beau Biden promising to create an identity theft task force if he is elected attorney general of Delaware in November?
father's credit cards or social security number, because that would be a big problem.
Whenever the number 666 appears somewhere intentionally, one must wonder what the messenger wants to say. There is always the possibility that there are 665 cars out there with licenses BIG001 through BIG665, but I have to think this personalized plate was chosen on purpose.Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez took his verbal battle with the United States to the floor of the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, callingNot to be outdone, Jerry Fallwell yesterday said that the only thing that would galvanize evangelicals more than Hillary Clinton running for president would be if Lucifer did so.
President Bush "the devil." "The devil came here yesterday," Chavez said. "He came here talking as if he were the owner of the world."
The Rev. Jerry Falwell, founder of the Moral Majority, looked ahead to 2008 and the possibility that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton might be the Democratic presidential candidate. Ms. Clinton's nomination, Mr. Falwell said to laughs, would arouse even more evangelical opposition than Lucifer's.I think in this day and age we need less diabolical, apocalyptic rhetoric rather than more. I guess I can try to be ready if need be.
I actually saw the aftermath of this crash around 3pm before the rescue crews got there. It looked like one car had hit the other so hard it flipped on its side. Unfortunately I didn't stop to take pictures, I just tried to avoid the accident scene.
Today's second reading was once again from the letter of St. James. One of the lines and the whole reading put me in mind of an eastern philosophy instead of the western ideas that history has built on the Bible."Where do the wars and where do the conflicts among you come from?This sounds suspiciously like a tenet of Buddhism that says:
Is it not from your passions..."
"Desire is the cause of all suffering."
...which I learned on the Simspons episode "She of Little Faith" in which Lisa Simspon is converted to, or realizes she was already, a Buddhist. Was St. James a Buddhist too? Or is it that two different religious traditions can sometimes stumble onto the same wisdom?
Look not just at the license plate, but closely at the flag colored license plate frame and the 
corner Statue of Liberty.
With bonus magnetic ribbons.
Since your ball is farthest from the hole, please go ahead and putt. Coincidentally noticed when I was away from home.
Don't laugh, these ladies could be your parents or you someday. Two elderly women were trapped in their car when the battery went dead and they couldn't use the automatic door locks to open the doors. They tried to get the attention of people passing by for assistance and were finally "saved" when a window was broken to get them out. They apparently did not know how to use the manual door locks.
Lois: Well, now that the mess is all cleaned up and we're back from the emergency room, it's time for the last game of the night, Trivial Pursuit.
Here is the scene clip at youtube.
Longwood Gardens fireworks and fountain display has reached new heights this year. We saw them a few weeks ago, and I was a able to take some pictures with my crappy Treo camera. They seemed to take extra care and artistry this year in timing both the flash and the sounds of the fireworks with the music. The fountains looks ethereal as always, and appeared to have added colors.
Remember James Cromwell singing to Babe, the pig, when he nursed Babe back to health. That was the song. James Cromwell was nominated for best supporting actor for his role in that film. Best supporting actor to a pig! He also studied acting at Carnegie Mellon, my alma mater.
Here is yet another attempt at proselytizing by license plate. This license plate, BYGRACE, references an important protestant Christian philosophy called sola fide. Sola fide or faith alone asserts that it is solely on the basis of God's grace through the believer's faith alone that believers are forgiven their transgressions of the Law of God.
What does Bender the Robot from Futurama have to say about his emotions?"Being a robot is great, but we don't have emotions, and sometimes that makes me sad."tags: futurama
Is it worth it, let me work itHas anybidy heard this song on the radio? Hoave I heard it and didn't realize it's relevance to cryptography. What exactly is being flipped and reversed?
I put my thing down, flip it and reverse it
("I put my thing down, flip and reverse it" - [backwards 2X])
If you got a big [elephant], let me search ya
To find out how hard I gotta work ya
("I put my thing down, flip and reverse it" - [backwards 2X])
What is it with Hollywood? Two magician movies at the same time? This could lead to confusion.
| Greed: | Medium | |
| Gluttony: | Medium | |
| Wrath: | Medium | |
| Sloth: | High | |
| Envy: | Medium | |
| Lust: | Very Low | |
| Pride: | Very High |
In the spirit of equal opportunity I have also found some advice for woman who are getting married to pair with the recent advice for men. Some choice bits of advice from the article:"Some young women actually anticipate the wedding night ordeal with curiosity and pleasure! Beware such an attitude! A selfish and sensual husband can easily take advantage of such a bride. One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: GIVE LITTLE, GIVE SELDOM, AND ABOVE ALL, GIVE GRUDGINGLY. Otherwise what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of sexual lust."Luckily the ladies are not alone in this struggle:
"One heartening factor for which the wife can be grateful is the fact that the husband's home, school, church, and social environment have been working together all through his life to instill in him a deep sense of guilt in regards to his sexual feelings, so that he comes to the marriage couch apologetically and filled with shame, already half cowed and subdued. The wise wife seizes upon this advantage and relentlessly pursues her goal first to limit, later to annihilate completely her husband's desire for sexual expression."I do hope that the recent marriage advice has been useful and evenhanded.
Here is some advice from Forbes for the men out there, "Don't marry a career woman." Xeni Jardin is appropriately up in arms over there at Boing Boing, mostly with the gender stereotype reversal of this advice. She switches the guys and girls to get advice seemingly appropriate for 1956 (just reverse it, "Girl's don't marry career men"). The article does seem to just switch the stereotypes as opposed to having something important to say about family and career balance, which would be more helpful. Perhaps they are trying to be sensational. Because of the controversy Forbes added a counterpoint.To be clear, we're not talking about a high-school dropout minding a cash register. For our purposes, a "career girl" has a university-level (or higher) education, works more than 35 hours a week outside the home and makes more than $30,000 a year.That definition not only includes everyone I would have ever wanted to marry but also the specific person I am going to marry. The article goes on to describe the statistically suggested trouble that will befall you if you do so:
If a host of studies are to be believed, marrying these women is asking for trouble. If they quit their jobs and stay home with the kids, they will be unhappy (Journal of Marriage and Family, 2003). They will be unhappy if they make more money than you do (Social Forces, 2006). You will be unhappy if they make more money than you do (Journal of Marriage and Family, 2001). You will be more likely to fall ill (American Journal of Sociology). Even your house will be dirtier (Institute for Social Research).You and I both know what you can do with statistics. I think that I will have to take my chances.