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The Wealthy Blogger
Posted on April 14, 2005, under General.
I happened upon this layperson financial blog because one of the bloggers on this site also blogs about MySQL, since he writes documentation for it! Interesting combo huh? The writing on this blog is pretty good, and has some practical tips you might just find useful:
The Wealthy Blogger - Money Management Blogging from two Decidedly Un-Wealthy Bloggers
Happy Easter Sunday!
He was handed over to die because of our sins, and he was raised from the dead to make us right with God.
Romans 4:25, New Living Translation
Lest we forget..
“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”
Abraham Lincoln
It may be shocking, but it should be no surprise..
If man is not made in the image of God, nothing then stands in the way of inhumanity. There is no good reason why mankind should be perceived as special. Human life is cheapened. We can see this in many of the major issues being debated in our society today: abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, the increase of child abuse and violence of all kinds, pornography (and its particular kinds of violence as evidenced in sadomasochism), the routine torture of political prisoners in many parts of the world, the crime explosion, and the random violence which surrounds us.
(Francis A. Schaeffer and C. Everette Koop, Whatever Happened to the Human Race?, Ch. 1)
Justice Scalia on The Morphing Constitution
World Magazine posted a section of a response by Justice Scalia in which he addresses being able to change the meaning of the Constitution without actually changing the Constitution:
I do not mean to imply that judges did not distort the Constitution now and then, of course they did. We had willful judges then, and we will have willful judges until the end of time. It’s a big difference that you now no longer have to lie about it, because we are in the era of the evolving Constitution. And the judge can simply say, “Oh yes, the Constitution didn’t used to mean that, but it does now.” We are in the age in which not only judges, not only lawyers, but even school children have come to learn the Constitution changes. I have grammar school students come into the court now and then, and they recite very proudly what they have been taught: “The Constitution is a living document.” You know, it morphs.
What he’s talking about goes in the ’scary stuff’ file. As Americans, we look to the Constitution for our freedom and justice as citizens of this country. If the meanings of the words written on the piece of paper can now be changed at a whim for short-sighted expediency to mean something else, the Constitution really stands for nothing. It’s a pretty, historical document with no pertinent relevance. Essentially, the bank is empty. We can’t cash in on our freedoms or pleas of protection to right wrongs, because there’s nothing there to cash in on. The lives of the people in this country will be under the control of those who were not part of any public election process, as they will be the constants who, based on their thoughts and feelings at that particular moment, will determine what the elected officials can or cannot do to represent the will of the people. Even worse, they could say there is no ‘will of the people’ as we understand it now. That’s if our country fully accepts the Constitution as a “living” document.
Update: YoungPundit has a few more quotes and a reference to the video on C-Span.
Starving boy and a missionary
This picture just makes you stop and think.. and feel..
“Starving boy and a missionary“
Michael Wells, United Kingdom
Karamoja district, Uganda, April 1980.
1980 - World Press Photo
(via)
Syncretism?
How is it that many people who believe “Survival of the fittest/Might makes right” is the rule of the universe also tend to believe they are motivated to help and protect the weak from the strong in society?
Are those not two opposing worldviews? If the former is true, isn’t protecting the weak and inhibiting the fit/strong counter-productive to a healthier existence?
The Virginia Declaration of Rights - Section 16
Jeff, at Aeronaut, posted a link to “The Virginia Declaration of Rights“. I find the combination of the original author and Section 16 highly interesting, given many quote Thomas Jefferson for the modern concept of the separation of ‘anything having to do with a God’ and state.
Section 16. That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practise Christian forbearance, love, and charity toward each other.
That doesn’t seem like something the ACLU would approve of, does it?
The Three + 30
These are the leaders of David?s mighty men. Together with all Israel, they determined to make David their king, just as the Lord had promised concerning Israel. Here is the record of David?s mightiest men:
The first was Jashobeam the Hacmonite, who was commander of the Three - the three greatest warriors among David?s men. He once used his spear to kill three hundred enemy warriors in a single battle.
Next in rank among the Three was Eleazar son of Dodai, a descendant of Ahoah. He was with David in the battle against the Philistines at Pas-dammim. The battle took place in a field full of barley, and the Israelite army fled. But Eleazar and David held their ground in the middle of the field and beat back the Philistines. So the Lord saved them by giving them a great victory.
- 1 Chronicles 11:10-14
Abishai, the brother of Joab, was the leader of the Thirty. He once used his spear to kill three hundred enemy warriors in a single battle. It was by such feats that he became as famous as the Three.
- 1 Chronicles 11:20
There was also Benaiah son of Jehoiada, a valiant warrior from Kabzeel. He did many heroic deeds, which included killing two of Moab’s mightiest warriors. Another time he chased a lion down into a pit. Then, despite the snow and slippery ground, he caught the lion and killed it. Another time, armed with only a club, he killed an Egyptian warrior who was seven and a half feet tall and whose spear was as thick as a weaver’s beam. Benaiah wrenched the spear from the Egyptian’s hand and killed him with it.
- 1 Chronicles 11:22-23
Can you imagine? These make some of the battle scenes in modern movies look cheap. I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall when these guys just ‘hung out’. Of course they probably would have squashed me, but hey.. I would have been a part of history.
Hello..and you are?
Q) So what’s up with the blog title, and why does the blog look all unfinished and stuff?
A) I don’t know what to call it yet, so basically the title seemed to fit for the time being. Joe and I were talking the other day about how we can install windows or linux without pretty much any problems.. but then when we get to the screen that asks for a computer name - BAM! Brain freeze! We could spend an hour trying to come up with a cool computer name that only nerd’s like ourselves who read e-mail headers would ever see. Man, it’s those little things that get me. (On my main machine it’s optimusprime. I know, I know, you’re saying, ‘Of course! Why didn’t I choose that?’)
As for the look, that’s because it is unfinished! I broke the rules and launched my blog before I had a title and design finished. I hope Jakob hasn’t heard about this, my daughter needs a father in her life who isn’t spending solitary confinement in an Alertbox.