These are the links to two posts in one of my favorite blogs. They were very meaningful to me, and I hope they will speak to you, also! The Seven Holy Maccabbees Lessons from the Maccabbees I’m not just being lazy – Fr. Stephen has one of the best blogs going, in my NOT so [...]
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Lessons from the Maccabees – From Fr. Stephens Blog
Posted in Orthodox Christian, Politics, Religion, Saint, Spiritual on 2 August 08 | 2 Comments »
The Sensible People
Posted in Just Fun, Politics on 17 June 08 | Leave a Comment »
This is the most SENSIBLE e-mail I’ve seen in a long time. Whoever wrote this should run for President some day…* *’We the sensible people of the United States, in an attempt to help everyone get along, restore some resemblance of justice, avoid more riots, keep our nation safe, promote positive behavior, and secure the [...]
A Reasonable Article!!
Posted in Conservatives, Hollywood, Liberals on 29 March 08 | 1 Comment »
I finally found a reasonable article about liberalism in the movies!! I was just surfing a bunch of different websites and ran across this: Reader Question: The Gay, Jewish, Liberal Hollywood Conspiracy In part, the author says: What’s infested Hollywood today is an ideology. Liberals run Hollywood (well, 97% of it). That some liberals happen [...]
A Serbian Poem – -
Posted in Kosovo, Morality, Poetry, Politics on 15 March 08 | Leave a Comment »
A Song of Defiance by Dobrica Eric English Translation I the servant of God, the Serb, announce willingly through chains and wires before the witnesses Power, Agony and Injustice, that I am guilty and admit my crime! I am guilty that I am a somebody and not a nothing and a nobody. I am guilty [...]
KOSOVO
Posted in Balkans, Destruction, Kosovo, Poetry, Politics, War on 11 March 08 | 4 Comments »
KOSOVO To Predrag Obradovic Gagi and all the others who had to leave The Kosovar soil’s much darker than else, its sky is more blue, its grass is more green… Happiness and sorrows are much more intense, and forgetting legends is more than a sin. Through pain, blood and battles, there were boldly set the [...]
KOSOVO: A Crying Shame
Posted in Politics, Views, War on 4 March 08 | 1 Comment »
Kosovo: A Crying Shame Tuesday, February 26 2008 @ 01:05 CST Contributed by: Shelley Rubin Once again the United States has sold out the good people and rewarded the bad. I am speaking of the recognition of Kosovo as an independent state by our government. As a bit of background information, the Jewish Defense League [...]
Explaining the Balkans – Serbia and Kosovo
Posted in Kosovo, Politics, Views on 23 February 08 | 1 Comment »
Finally! A writer has put the Balkans, or at least Serbia and Kosovo, into a perspective that the average American can understand without a PhD in Balkan history!! Julia Gorin in FrontPage Magazine has this wonderful paragraph in a longer, excellent article: [...] “To put this in perspective, with advance apologies to any offended ethnic [...]
Electile Dysfunction
Posted in Humor, Politics, Satire on 31 January 08 | Leave a Comment »
“Electile Dysfunction”: the inability to become aroused over any of the choices for president put forth by either party in the 2008 election year. Electile Dysfunction (ED or political impotence) is an emotional dysfunction characterized by the inability to develop or maintain any excitement over the political process. There are various underlying causes, such as [...]
God Will Tell Me -
Posted in Politics, Views on 10 January 08 | 1 Comment »
Fr. Stephen said in part: St. Silouan of Mt. Athos never read newspapers. When asked how he could pray for the world without information about the world, he answered that the newspapers never tell us what we need to know for prayer. {{Emphasis mine. Turtlemom}} God will do this. My heart weeps when I think [...]
13 Fold Flag Ceremony
Posted in Patriotism, Politics, Views on 31 October 07 | 1 Comment »
I’m more than a little hacked off about the Flag Folding Ceremony mess! “A group of congressmen has asked the Department of Veterans Affairs to retain the tradition of reciting the significance of each fold in the flag-folding ceremony at military funerals. [...] “Veterans Affairs has a policy that allows for a full military funeral, [...]
The Cure
Posted in Health Care, Illness, Politics on 20 September 07 | Leave a Comment »
The politicos are screaming at each other about the newest health care proposal by Hilary Clinton. It would mimic the systems in Great Britain and Canada – which systems are failing. We seldom hear of alternatives, however. As someone who is on the brink of Medicare and Social Security (Social Insecurity?), I am vitally interested [...]
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Posted in Comment, IMPORTANT, Politics on 18 March 08 | Leave a Comment »
HOW TRUE! Finally someone most of us can agree with. I don’t know if this guy is real or what, but it is an interesting idea. A bit simplified, (there are economic cycles and outside influences) …but he still has some good points. And of course, we are responsible for whom we vote for. Charley [...]
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