The Hall of Fire

I don't really pay much attention to politics on 9/11, as when I am thinking on it, it doesn't have a political meaning to me personally. Then why politicize a call to a volunteer day of service? Service is not compulsory on that day. The call to service is a way to honor and remember the service t...

*** racial prejudice seemed not to be a major factor in the opinion of the people interviewed *** their opinion of Limbaugh was not incredibly high *** they have no intention of leaving the Republican Party These things describe my Father very well. He is opposed to Obama and he watches Fox News. H...

I was thinking further about the Psalm quoted above, and how it is, in a way, a condemnation of such a project as noted at the start of the thread. The Psalm makes the assertion that the exiled Jews will not sing for their captors what they want to hear, that it is too sacred to debase. But this new...

Yeah, pretty much. You make the story less 'real' if you take out the parts you don't like, the uncomfortable parts. It's why purists argue in favor of the Tom Bombadil chapters ;). Here's the Psalm I had in mind: By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion. There on the poplar...

Combining Lurker and Mahima's scenario into a real world example, that may not be a perfect fit, but it seems to match some of the characteristics quite well. Company ABC is IBM. Company XYZ is Microsoft. Company DEF is Compaq. IBM wants an operating system (widget) for their PCs. Microsoft can do t...

One thing I should note is that I just completed reading Asimov's God to the Bible (what didn't he write about?), all 1296 pages of it, and I think I learned more over that month than in years of Sunday school. Asimov's approach is with the secular aspects of the Bible--comparative history, geograph...

I see no evidence of it at the link, but this sure sounds like some sort of joke or hoax. The effort is being organized by the same folks that brought the world Conservapedia, the Conservative answer to Wikipedia. There is a link in the Belief Net Blog entry to the Conservapedia posting on this, bu...

Conservative Bible Project Cuts Out Liberal Passages http://blog.beliefnet.com/crunchycon/2009/10/conservatizing-the-bible.html ------------- Lo and behold, the Bible has gotten too liberal, according to a group of conservatives. And it needs a little editing. That's the inspiration behind the Cons...

I saw "The Year of Living Biblically" at Borders Books, and it looked like a fun read. I skimmed through portions, and it was fascinating. The following is what he has on his website about the book: http://www.ajjacobs.com/books/yolb.asp DESCRIPTION The Year of Living Biblically is about m...

I've got some kind of cold right now--maybe flu, don't know-for about 5 days--but it is much like other times where I've gotten something like this, and it seems to be progressing normally, so I expect I'll be fine shortly. My brother had something real bad in early July, and he suspected it was the...

I suspect that the reason Tolkien was initially asked but ultimately not needed was due to changes in the perceived need. The view of cryptography that had existed previously was in the form of a linguistic game; however, it became known that the Germans were using mechanical encryption devices, whi...

It then becomes a question of whether you can assert your rights. There are a number of court cases (cited on the internet site that I linked to) that have made it clear that it is legal to photograph and video the police in the performance of their duty. If you resist, and say this is legal (the a...

You have to prove that the officer did not in fact have probable cause to believe that a crime had been committed. Difficult in most cases, but not always impossible. Still, difficult enough that I gave up trying. And what is in the video is all about providing such evidence, which is why the polic...

The issue of resisting arrest is an important one, and something that these videos make clear is that the officers consistently lied, and were it not for the existence of these videos and photographs there would be no evidence to contradict the officers' sworn statements, despite the fact that they ...

This video is about a year old, but I had never seen it before, and it needs to be seen. NYC Council Member urge probe against NYPD as second video emerges Many people have probably seen the video of an NYPD officer deliberately knocking a biker off his bike and then filing a false report that the b...

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I definitely remember seeing some portraits middle-aged and older ladies in the European galleries.

4/4/2009 - In Silence at Her Portrait

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He also kept performing, which he loved, until very close to his death--at 94. Good for him. He continued to perform in Manhattan every week (in fact, the listing for the Les Paul trio every Monday at the Iridium Jazz club is still online on the NY.Com Jazz site, though the club's own site has a tr...

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:scratch: But there's loads of scientific research out there. The CIA did exhaustive studies on remote viewing for 20 years And the results were negative, or consistent with chance. This is widely written about by folks like Carl Sagan, James Randi and others. Scientific research into a subject whe...