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Jester post complements my fair
use post nicely. 🙂
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Monthly Archives: July 2004
CINOs Respond
Catholics for a Free Choice in the United States works in partnership with reproductive health, interfaith and Catholic church reform groups that share our commitment to safe, legal reproductive health care and women’s equality.
CFFC supports artificial contraception, abortion "rights", heresy, open disobedience, and female priesthood. In other words, they’re Catholics in name only (CINO). One of these days, I or someone I trust will post a fisking of CFFC’s mission statement here.
"For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own likings, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander into myths." 2 Timothy 4:3-4 (RSV)
Anyhow, the reason I brought this abominable group up is that they released a statement in response to "On the Collaboration of Men and Women in the Church and in the World". BTW, does anyone out there know the official Latin title?
Ugly on the Outside
"Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly is to the bone." – Anonymous
The movement from records to tapes and from tapes to CDs has sadly killed album artwork. With roughly four inches to play with instead of twelve, nobody really puts effort into covers. Of course, just because they had a big canvas once upon a time, doesn't mean every album cover was as cool as one for Kansas or Klaatu. Here's proof – the ten worst album covers of all time (at least according to some guy). (Thanks, Rippleweb). NOTE: Some of the language isn't family friendly (but it's freakin' hilarious).
Dance Marathon
Games to get kids off the couch
Some of the new video games on the market make children move more than their thumbs – they get the kids off the couch and get them to exercise. With television and video games often blamed for contributing to the growing problem of obesity in children, video game makers and children’s TV companies are creating shows and games that motivate children to move around or offer story lines that encourage exercise.
[…]
Lowenstein and others say the video game Dance Dance Revolution — which created
a craze in the nation’s arcades and is now popular among video game players at the
home — made the industry realize “gamers are willing to experience a game
other than in a sitting position.”
I played a version of this game at Dave
and Buster’s recently. At first, it’s completely foreign and ridiculously complicated.
Once you get over the initial learning curve, though, it’s thoroughly addictive.
I spent more money on this game than I have ever spent on any other video game. Anyhow, anything that gets kids off their lazy arses is a good start to eliminating childhood obesity.
Get a Piece of Me
My Blogshares woes seemed to have been solved. In order to fix the problem, though, all the shares from my old URL had to be sold off. This was actually good news for me because I made a heck of a lot of "money" off the transaction. As a result, I was able to buy stock in several other blogs, while maintaining 50.5% of my own.
The analysts report for my blog says it's underpriced and advises buying. At $2.20 a share, I can't disagree. Invest in me. 🙂