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Morning, Glories. Morning, NDH.

Coffee is cooked.

Doughnuts on the buffet.

Morning, Vic. Hope your doing okay today.

Saturday hangovers?

knock knock

Russian Bombers Are Testing U.S. Air Defenses
http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.com/2014/08/russian-bombers-are-testing-u...

An Epic Slaughter Is Now Engulfing The Entire Middle East
http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.com/2014/08/an-epic-slaughter-is-now-engu...

We Are At War With Radical Islam
http://warnewsupdates.blogspot.com/2014/08/we-are-at-war-with-islamist-r...

I like this ex-Ruskie's headlines a lot better than the mealy-mouthed headlines at the sources he links to.

Gotta quit the lurking on y'all's fascinating exchanges.

Can anyone really remember how you felt after 9-11?

When I heard on the car radio that the towers had fallen, my first thought, was, "The bastards did it! They said they would and they did it." I had no question who, and I didn't even yet know how. I turned back home to explain to the kids that this was probably their Pearl Harbor.

That was bad. Things seem to be about to break worse, to this observer (barely) in his seventh decade. You feel it in your bones, too, don't you?

Good night, Gracies.

Remy's TSA Contest Entry
http://youtu.be/kCXaRym-K1I

Gun Control works like magic... Alaka-Ban!
http://youtu.be/CeYJXIgNxRo

I have never seen nor heard of That Guy T before, but after watching this video embedded on ohhh maybe moonbattery, I am a subscriber. Holy cow, I did not expect this kid to be so brilliantly to-the-point, and right-on for every single thing he said.

Fifteen minutes is 'way beyond my usual ADHD mentality, but this held me to the end. Favorite line is "I guess calling 9-1-1 won't be an effective means of self-defense until..." Hell, I don't want to spoil it. Watch this guy.

Iraq Crisis Worsens, Obama Deploys Super-Serious Situation Room Photo

http://tinyurl.com/nzdacge

So true.

Posted by: logprof

"...if things get really, really bad, they'll all crowd by the window..."

i weep for the future
http://youtu.be/SMGz3sXRhvE

Stepping away from the blog for some fresh air. Might not be back 'til morning.

You can chew on this meanwhile.
http://grouchyoldcripple.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/trifecta.jpg

Click my nick for the list of radically inclined webworks (been busy in RL lately, not a lot new). Click through to the content pages, become amused or aghast, ignore the donation button, feel good about how much you saved.

There was some question about "bug hunt"? Sheesh!

Am I the only one who liked the third Alien movie best?

I really don't remember much about the second, except it was like that other star soldiers comic book movie what was it... the one with the unisex shower scene...

Anyway, the third was the only one I actually went to see on the big screen, and don't remember much about that either, but I recall feeling great at the end, because there's nothing as satisfying as a solid conclusion that guarantees there will never, ever be a sequel!

Just like the Matrix.

Whew! This means I don't have to read the nine hundred comments on the previous thread, right?

Thank you, CDR M!

I'm reading along, then suddenly realize the elevator bar is still practically at the top floor. Seven hundred comments???

I was just gonna say,

I learned anesthesiologist as a child because my best friend's mother was one.

I learned duododecahedron because she had one on her desk. (An any-year calendar from some drug co.)

I learned tintinnabulation as a yout' when it was used in some alliteration by Stan Lee, Marvel comics, mid-60s. Now I is old and I has it.

GGE: I'm wondering if someone poisoned his cornflakes or something.

Brady's death was ruled to be "complications" from the Hinkley shooting.

I'm betting double-jeopardy leaves Hinkley uncharged.

ISIS Takes Hundreds of Yazidi Women Captive in Iraq

An Iraqi Christian refugee named Rwaa called into the BBC today to describe the horrific situation in Iraq. Rwaa fled the Christian city of Qaraqosh on Thursday with her children and cousin as ISIS rebels took control of the town. She said ISIS is raping and selling women....

Check the photo.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/08/breaking-isis-is-holding-hundred...

D'oh! Here's the link I forgot to include to the MO execution story.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-missouri-execution-2014...

Missouri man executed for rape and murder of 24-year-old woman viciously raped and killed in her own home... DNA evidence... possession of items stolen from her home reinforced his confession and guilty pleas to murder, rape and burglary.

Supreme Court denied request for a stay of execution in a 5-4 decision. Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, Stephen G. Breyer and Elena Kagan would have stayed his execution.

Why do these four women justices hate women so much?

a la
http://mindfulwebworks.com/radical/five-white-guys

A slight clarification: Barry is the lie.

I can't believe I looked up and down the page for any "archive-ish" link I might have missed, yet utterly overlook the glaring "Seasons Past" calendar. [big v-8 forehead slap] The subtle and nearly impossible to discern I grasp readily; that which is staring me right in the face I miss completely.

Well, it's something. I just looked at the first PoliNation post! (Dee?)

Klavan's Highway to Hell, first video posted on PoliNation. Good start!

cth: "I’ve heard it said that Muslims worship the same God that Christians and Jews do, but that terrorist quoted above saying 'their God' certainly does not consider Allah to be Yahweh!"

You'll find all kinds of folks in all kinds of religions who think in my god / your god terms. It's superstitious (and theological) ignorance. It's usually not about God, it's about power totems, like battling team ghost spirits.

When folks conceive of gods in this way, it always reminds me of how Jack Kirby first draw Thor (who had previously been a comic book character) for Marvel, and then back-invented his version of Odin and Asgard and all that. Then he brought in Hercules (duking it out with Thor, of course) and so there was Odin of the Norse gods and Zeus of the Olympian gods; IIRC, later, Marvel later threw in Krishna from Nirvana and others. Different "heavens" as little islands floating in separate dimensions.

Kirby went off to DC comics and created the New Gods, a whole universe of original mythology, with the Edenic world of the good Lord All-Father and the smoking, foul, firepit-riddled world of evil Lord Darkseid (pronounced dark side) locked in a secret pact to keep balance in the universe, but set at odds through uncounted ages (and as long as DC can milk the franchise).

My god / your god is superheroes and supervillains all the way down to Yggdrasil, but has nothing to do with genuine theology. Once you understand God is not some competitive superguy struggling against some other nearly-as-powerful princling gods always vying for the scepter of power and the golden throne, but instead understand the One God's omnipotence, omniscience, and absoluteness, then the whole "none other before me" thing becomes "well, duh."

I'd be glad to help anyone who believes in One God by any name come to better know the true nature of our Creator-Father.

But, if Jimmy Jihad wants to think Yahweh's hand pushed Allah's rocket into the sea, I've got no problem with that.