But look out for that 300-foot high wave that will hit the Eastern seaboard of the US and Canada. Oh, only if Bush gets relected – the volcano slippage is his fault. Kerry’s hair will save the day!
I saw a special on this on the Discovery Channel a while back. It looks pretty scary. Maybe get some Legos there quickly and put a wall around the island.
The legacy of George Stallings is evident at his last parish, St. Teresa of Avila in Anacostia. Above the “high” marble altar (I don’t know what else to call the pre-Vatican II altar) is the painting shown in the conniption-inducing photos below. It bears a resemblance to the former priest, now “Unificationist” follower of Reverend Moon. Stallings, founder of the African American Catholic Congregation, married a Japanese woman in 2001 less than half his age, no doubt in the interest of unification.
I agree the match isn’t spot-on, but given the age difference between the photos and when the painting was probably done (he left the Church in 1989) it’s plausible. Is that a wound on the right arm or is it a visage of Christ at all?
Click below to see the photos. I didn’t wish to post them on the main page here because it would use a ton of bandwidth.
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Link via Bill Cork
About the contest:
An international literary parody contest, the competition honors the memory (if not the reputation) of Victorian novelist Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873). The goal of the contest is childishly simple: entrants are challenged to submit bad opening sentences to imaginary novels. Although best known for “The Last Days of Pompeii” (1834), which has been made into a movie three times, originating the expression “the pen is mightier than the sword,” and phrases like “the great unwashed” and “the almighty dollar,” Bulwer-Lytton opened his novel Paul Clifford (1830) with the immortal words that the “Peanuts” beagle Snoopy plagiarized for years, “It was a dark and stormy night.”
Do they still publish a book of the most notable entries for each year? I remember that being well worth the purchase. It provided hours of entertainment.
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“I don’t want to accept George Bush as the legitimately-elected President of the United Stated, therefore he is not the legitimately-elected President of the United States.” |
The fallacy of subjectivism is commited when one uses their belief or desire of a thing as evidence of its proof. There is an implicit premise here. It is much more than the one who says this is more supreme than the Justices on the Supreme Court. He implies that he is the Supreme Being.
All things I want to be true are true.
I want the statement “Bush is not the legitimately-elected President of the United States” to be true.
Therefore, the statement “Bush is not the legitimately-elected President of the United States” is true.
Who can say, “All things I want to be true are true”? That’s only true for God. We mere creatures have no such power. Talk about “playing God!” That’s subjectivism. Of course, what is subjective for God is objective for Creation.
So, I say to the “Re-defeat Bush” crowd, just because you want something to be true doesn’t make it true. And I also say to them, “Go play in traffic!”
What: you mean–? Oh, they were the originals from the movie….
