Free Starbucks, Anyone?

Just checked and this offer is still good.  Click here to sign up for some info on the new Hyatt in Las Vegas and you will get a $10 Starbucks card!  You can even give it to me if you like!  ;)

Back of the loaf is the snowy flour,

And back of the flour is the mill;

And back of the mill is the wheat, and the shower

And the sun, and the Father's will.

—Maltbie D. Babcock

Happy Day After Thanksgiving!

The view from my mail truck:

The Apple Doesn't Fall Far . . .

"Daddy, how far from food are we?"

~Drew~

This Kid Has Got Life Figured Out

"Daddy, stuff doesn't always happen the way you thought it would, does it."

~Jacob~

Pro-Life Club is "Antiabortion Club" to Media

I saw this headline this morning at washingtonpost.com: "Teen Wins Fight for Antiabortion Club at School."  Of course it isn't called the "Antiabortion Club."  In real life (as opposed to the imagined and hoped-for world of our media elites) it's called the "Pro-Life Club."  But why bother reporting obnoxious details like that when your mainstream media style guide won't let you use bizarre phrases like "Pro-Life."  I'm glad the girl won the case; she should have won.  As she says, "It's not a radical thing to expect equal treatment."

The club promotes teen sexual abstinence as well as opposing abortion, so obviously school administrators had initially turned the club down "on the grounds that it was not tied to the school curriculum."  Ha!  I imagine the club's goals are rather in opposition to the school curriculum.  Good thing.

Safari Browser for Windows

Some time back I posted about "Alternative Browsers" for Windows.  At the time I gave plaudits to Opera, and I still do.  I also tried, and have used intermittently, Flock (a Firefox-based browser), Chameleon (on the boys' older computer running ME), in addition to Opera, Firefox, and (every now and then for kicks) IE.  Opera really is the quickest, and seems to have better compatibility now with Google apps like "Docs" than it did when I first tried it.

The one area, however, that Explorer continued to be superior in my opinion was in its rendering of fonts.  They just looked cleaner, sharper, and overall better with IE than in any other browser. Until now.  I just downloaded Apple's Safari 3 Public Beta for Windows, and I love the way this page looks in it!  The fonts are very much like IE, but it's not IE!  Safari seems to have some other interesting features which I haven't checked out yet, but I had to go ahead and comment because I so much like the way the internet looks with it.  Worth checking out.

Abortion and Slavery

Charles Moore writes a very interesting column in the Telegraph of London about his vision of a future denunciation of abortion such as we have seen with slavery.  He says,

It is not hard to imagine how a future Museum of London exhibition about abortion could go. It could buy up a 20th-century hospital building as its space, and take visitors round, showing them how, in one ward, staff were trying to save the lives of premature babies while, in the next, they were killing them.

It could compare the procedure by which the corpse of a baby who had died after or during premature birth was presented by the hospital to the mother to assist with grieving, with the way a similar corpse, if aborted, was thrown away.

It could display the various instruments that were used to remove and kill the foetus, rather as the manacles and collars of slaves can be seen today.

I pray he is right.

Favorite sign around town . . .

WARM UP TO A
HOT APPLE
DUMPING

(Courstesy of Brewster's on Dogwood Drive in Conyers)

No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the Congress is in session.
~Mark Twain~

Fair Tax Question

I posted a link to fairtax.org at the top of the right hand column recently. I hope you have been there to check it out. I think everyone has at least heard the moniker "Fair Tax" by now. My question for you is, Why do you support the Fair Tax?

I like it because it's transparent. Whatever percentage the tax is, everyone will know it, and the social engineering of taxing certain behaviors is GONE! When taxes go up it will be obvious to all. I also like it because it will expand the tax base from income earners to retail consumers. There are a bunch more consumers in "these here" United States than there are people earning a paycheck. The Fair Tax much more reasonably distributes the tax burden. So, What do you think?

Joke of the Day

Al Gore: 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Recipient
(apparently for lying in his movie and trying to scare children)

Well-bred Bears

Almost by definition, secularism cannot be a future: it's a present-tense culture that over time disconnects a society from cross-generational purpose. Which is why there are no examples of sustained atheist civilizations.
Mark Steyn in America Alone, p. 98

Probably every physicist would believe in a creation if the Bible had not unfortunately said something about it many years ago and made it seem old-fashioned.
~English Nobel Laureate George Thomson~

"Hey, you two! I see you can't tackle . . . Any chance either of you can play quarterback?," asked the chubby coach.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
~Nikola Tesla~

Religion of Peace Marches On

This post really makes me angry. Angry at the lowlifes who terrorize civilians. Angry at the politicians in this country whose political rhetoric empowers these lowlifes. Angry that our blind-eye, deaf-ear media ignore the vast amounts of information not jibing with their predetermined storylines. Angry that someone as highly exalted as the beautiful John Edwards can call the war against Islamic terror a "bumper sticker" and not be shamed into obscurity by media and public alike.

The following numbers show the Islamic terror attacks around the world in just the last 7 days! No wonder Edwards claims this is just a bumper sticker enterprise--a mere 49 attacks in the last week! I've added a link to thereligionofpeace.com in the right column under "Daily Reads." They continually update all of this stuff in nicely formatted columns that even the hardest-nosed investigative journalist ought to be able to decipher. We have to remain vigilant against this kind of evil and take it with the utmost seriousness. Have a look for yourself:

Islamic Terror Attacks 8/17 - 8/23

Date	Country	City	Killed	Injured	Description
8/23/07	Afghanistan	Helmand	3	13	Three Afghan civilians are murdered in a Taliban suicide attack.
8/22/07	Iraq	Tikrit	2	12	Jihadis kill two civilians with a roadside bomb.
8/22/07	Afghanistan	Khost	4	8	A Fedayeen suicide bomber kills four Afghans on a highway.
8/22/07	Afghanistan	Paktia	2	4	Two engineers are shot to death by the Taliban.
8/22/07	Somalia	Mogadishu	1	0	Islamic militias are suspected in the murder of a civilian at a market.
8/22/07	Somalia	Suqa Holaha	2	5	Two people are killed when Islamists hurl a grenade into the street.
8/22/07	Afghanistan	Nuristan	2	11	Two Afghan soldiers are killed when religious extremists stage an attack on a base.
8/22/07	Iraq	Tal Afar	2	5	Radical Sunnis take out two pipe layers with a bomb blast.
8/22/07	Iraq	Muqdadiyah	6	50	A suicide bomber on a motorcycle kills six Iraqis.
8/22/07	Iraq	Beiji	45	80	A suicidal Sunni drives a truck bomb into a police station, incinerating twenty-five police and twenty civilians.
8/22/07	Iraq	Kufa	1	0	A female university professer is stabbed to death by Islamic radicals.
8/22/07	Ingushetia	Nazran	1	5	Islamic terrorists attack a security convoy, killing at least one member.
8/22/07	Pakistan	Quetta	0	16	A barbershop is one of two sites attacked by fundamentalists with grenades.
8/21/07	Thailand	Yala	1	0	Muslims kill a man elected to replace another official who was slaughtered along with his family.
8/21/07	Thailand	Pattani	1	0	A Buddhist official is gunned down by Islamic radicals.
8/21/07	Thailand	Narathiwat	1	0	A Buddhist security guard is murdered by Mulslim extremists, who then attempt to cut the head from the body.
8/21/07	Somalia	Mogadishu	1	5	An Islamist walks into a restaurant and shoot a civilian to death.
8/21/07	Pakistan	Mohallah	1	4	A woman is killed when fundamentalists toss a grenade into a brothel.
8/21/07	Philippines	Zamboanga	0	14	Abu Sayyaf sympathizers place a bomb at a city plaza, injuring fourteen people.
8/21/07	Iraq	Latifiya	9	2	Nine members of a family, including a baby, are murdered by Shiite radicals inside their home.
8/21/07	Iraq	Baghdad	17	14	Two passengers on a minibus are among fourteen Iraqis murdered by Jihadis in various attacks.
8/21/07	Pakistan	Bannu	4	0	Pro-Taliban militants attack a checkpoint with rockets, leaving three Pakistani soldiers and a woman dead.
8/21/07	Afghanistan	Zabul	6	0	Religious extremists ambush and kill six Afghan cops.
8/21/07	Thailand	Yala	1	0	A man is shot to death by Muslim terrorists while sitting in a tea shop.
8/20/07	Pakistan	Hangu	4	18	A woman passerby is among four killed when a Fedayeen suicide bomber rams into a military vehicle.
8/20/07	Iraq	Baghdad	20	36	Two Jihad bombings and random shootings leave over twenty people dead.
8/20/07	India	Shopian	1	0	A farmer is shot to death by the Mujahideen.
8/20/07	Iraq	al-Rumeitha	4	2	Shiite militants assassinate a provincial governor.
8/19/07	Iraq	Baghdad	31	51	A Jihad mortar attack and various shootings leave more than thirty people dead, including children.
8/18/07	Afghanistan	Ghazni	2	2	Religious extremists kill two Afghan cops with a roadside bomb.
8/18/07	Pakistan	Jandola	1	0	al-Qaeda militants kidnap and behead a teacher.
8/18/07	Pakistan	Miran Shah	1	2	A suicide bomber detonates at an army checkpoint, killing at least one Pakistani.
8/18/07	Afghanistan	Kandahar	15	26	Fifteen Afghans, mostly civilians, are blown to bits by a suicidal Sunni along a highway.
8/18/07	India	Doda	1	0	The body of a 26-year-old woman is found murdered days after she was taken by the Mujahideen.
8/18/07	Iraq	Khalis	7	35	A baby is among seven people killed when Holy Warriors pump mortars and rockets into a residential neighborhood.
8/18/07	Somalia	Mogadishu	2	4	An elderly man and a woman are killed in separate attacks by Islamic militias.
8/18/07	Pakistan	Bajaur	1	0	Taliban militants shoot a man to death in his home.
8/18/07	Afghanistan	Kandahar	4	3	A Taliban suicide bomber targets a road construction crew, killing four guards.
8/18/07	India	Kandi	1	0	The Mujahideen chop out a 70-year-old man's eyes and behead him.
8/18/07	India	Rajouri	1	0	The Mujahideen kidnap a civilian and kill him in captivity.
8/18/07	Pakistan	Bannu	1	5	A cop is killed in a hand grenade attack by Islamic militants.
8/17/07	India	Rajouri	1	0	A civilian is kidnapped and killed in captivity by radical Muslims.
8/17/07	India	Baramulla	2	0	A policeman and his elderly father are brutally murdered inside their hom by Islamic militants.
8/17/07	India	Pulwama	5	3	Mujahideen use an IED to kill five Indian soldiers traveling along a road.
8/17/07	Pakistan	Khyber	7	0	Seven people are killed in clashes between radical Islamist groups.
8/17/07	Iraq	Kirkuk	3	42	Two separate bombings by Sunni radicals kill three civilians and injure over forty.
8/17/07	Afghanistan	Kandahar	4	2	Three young children under the age of 10 are slaughtered along with their father by a Fedayeen suicide bomber.
8/17/07	Somalia	Mogadishu	1	1	Islamic militias rocket a house, killing a woman.
8/17/07	Iraq	Haditha	3	0	Three people are kidnapped, tortured and shot to death by sectarian rivals.

"There's nothing out on the battlefield that a Marine rifle squad couldn't easily deal with."
Col. Richard L. Simcock II, USMC, Commanding Officer, Regimental Combat Team 6, commenting on the improving security situation in Iraq

Lark News

In his review of Doug Wilson's A Serrated Edge, John Frame writes, "I enjoyed the Wittenburg Door back in the days before it got all serious on us and tried to solve all the world’s problems. Now I find it hard to live without my monthly dose of www.larknews.com, and Credenda Agenda."

I've enjoyed C/A for years, but Lark News was new on me. It's definitely in the best tradition of The Door. Check it out.