As we are about to welcome a dog with 80% wolf genes as our new pet, I read this on Facebook. 4 years ago I was sitting in my arm chair reading in the front room by the plate glass picture window. I looked up an there they were just feet away .. It was […][...]
Posts Tagged ‘SMS family’
November 13th, 2014 - 1:18 pm § in Misc.
RADICAL REPUBLICANS: Huckabee and God
Sitting watching TV, the phone rang. Comcast showed a number someplace in Florida. I answered the phone. A new friend from Florida wanted to know whether I believe that we should have national prayer day. This friend told me that national prayer day was being threatened by militant atheists. Whil[...]
Ballot Recommendations: Two Sets of Similar Ideas
Geov Parrish: This year’s general election ballots have been mailed out, and they’re…long. And complicated. Not to worry – I’m here to help. Because buried among the judicial races and “advisory vote” nonsense are some genuinely important, meaningful choices. Unlike this Augus[...]
October 16th, 2014 - 12:51 pm § in Misc.
An Offer To Pass on
from the SPAM Dearest one, Thanks for your attention and I pray that my decision to contact you will be given genuine approval. My name is Miss Rebecca Gross and i humbly write to solicit for your partnership and assistance in the transfer and investment of my inheritance funds $10,500,000.00 f[...]
October 15th, 2014 - 10:18 am § in Politics
South Carolina: Good News .. despite the Palmetto State’s Domination by the Tea Party
Sometimes South Carolina seems as if it lives in a different universe. For example, while South Carolina’s Senator Lindsey Graham is running a political TV ad touting his opt-out of Obamacare legislation – less than 1% are opting out of of Obamacare. Since I know that some of my[...]
October 13th, 2014 - 1:53 pm § in The Ave Scene
“Aquila” Encountering the Thea Foss in Nanaimo
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October 13th, 2014 - 1:11 am § in Religion
Buchenwald 58: My father’s views on God and the camps.
An Indictment of the Deity for the crimes of the Nazis from Κέλσος blog. The essay is very much like the things my own father used to say abut God and about people who want to defend their beliefs despite the reality that any God who would foment such events would have to be the devil. [&he[...]
October 9th, 2014 - 10:16 am § in Misc.
Swedish Academy Honors French Post-Holocaust Writer
Patrick Modiano, 69, France’s leading “Post-Holocaust” writer whose novels focus on the loss of human identity in the Holocaust and Occupied France, has been awarded the 2014 Nobel Literature Prize “for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human des[...]
October 7th, 2014 - 12:08 am § in Misc.
Yale Joins Brandeis in Shaming Free Speech
Muhammad Syed, the co-founder and Executive Director of Ex-Muslims of North America “As a former Muslim with friends and loved ones who are Muslim, I am disappointed with the behavior of the Muslim Students Association. There’s a pattern of silencing dissent that runs through the Muslim wor[...]
Sunday Revelations: The day after Yom Kippur .. and the Schwartz Family Feud
This is the 22nd post about Yom Kippur since The Ave began. Yesterday was Yom Kippur, the last day of a period of eight days called the days of awe .. starting with the Jewish New Year .. Rosh Hoshana and end of eight days, a period where Jews are supposed to reflect on […][...]