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Oh that answer of course is “No”. “No” a million times over. But its always fun to watch the deluded try and justify the rotten foundations of the RCC or as in this case yell at themselves while on hold.
Our neighbour to the south tends to influence the world and North America. As a citizen of said region, I would have to endorse the lesser evil of Obama rather than Mittens. Betty Bowers helps reinforce that idea.
I hate to say it folks, but video games have not been improving as of late. Certainly the exceptions being the gratuitous eye candy and special effects, but as far as things that make you sit back and go, “Wow that was fantastic!” have been few and far between. The other thing could be is that I’m just getting older (I started with Atari, that should date me quite nicely) and do not have the time, nor the desire to get good at any particular game. There are just too many other worthwhile things to be doing than gaming.
Reading, practising piano/voice, blogging, attending to chores, walking the dog, socializing with the wife – all come before gaming now. The rich experiences I remember from my younger years are just not happening in this new context. Gaming now rather than something to do, seems like a guilty pleasure of taking time away from what I should be doing.
Let us not be too maudlin about video gaming though. Mystro and I (and a few of my other friends) can occasionally rock League of Legends and Left for Dead, I do take great pleasure in owning face and killing zombies in the name of justice, don’t get me wrong. But the time needed to get good, as in mastering a particular games mechanics, is just too much for me now.
The lack of time is illustrated by the graveyard of games that populate my hard-drive. Fun for awhile but unable to compete for my time to get anywhere past “competently average” level of skill/dedication.
I know I have a few gamers that follow the blog, what do you think? Do we reach a point where we finally outgrow our video games and fully commit to the dowdy reality of adulthood? :)
Religious stupidity it burns! Potholer54 goes into the dark seedy world of Creation “Science” to find the most vacuously dishonest christian on Youtube. It was a tight race, but one familiar name came out on top…
You would think that here in Canada we would have at least few more moments of sanity. Apparently not.
“A trip for students from two Ottawa Catholic high schools to observe the U.S. presidential election has been cancelled because of an article on an anti-abortion website, leaving students and parents confused and disappointed.”
The Fetus Fetishists along with their religiously deluded supporters are curtailing childrens’ education because their nose slipped a notch out of joint.
“Scott Searle, a teacher at St. Peter, organized the trip to give them a first-hand glimpse of the American presidential election campaign and voting process as the campaign heads into its final days.
They would have participated in incumbent President Barack Obama’s ‘get out the vote’ program by reminding pre-determined Obama supporters to vote. The students would have come home Wednesday after the results were in.”
Wow, participating in the US political process, it would have been a engaging learning experience. But we certainly can’t have that, education opens minds – precisely what the church and fetus-worshippers detest the most.
“It [an article from LifeSiteNews.com] quotes an anonymous mother who said she’s incensed about the trip’s support for Obama, who is pro-choice. It also points out that Searle’s online LinkedIn profile lists him as an Obama volunteer.”
Yep, apparently Obama is still the anti-christ and letting students even in directly participate in anything that involves him pretty much will stop the Earth from turning [spiralling into the sun is next if Obama wins].
“Clatney said he’s upset about the trip being taken out of context.
“I’m very disappointed that the community was unable to understand that the trip was about observing the American political system and not [being] there on behalf of Obama or supporting him,” Clatney said.
“I was also disappointed that our school and some of our staff members were portrayed as anti-Christian, anti-life, anti-family, and that it was blown way out of proportion and exaggerated.”
Well if you associate with the religious regressive sorts, is this sort of action really surprising? I mean how shocking is it that religion is holding back education opportunities? Religion is the poisonous crimson ichor that turns people away from reason, away from tolerance and away from modern civilized society. Religion worked great when we were stupid, ignorant and afraid of just about everything in the world; now, no so much.
Welcome readers to the key of A minor, the CBC Signature Series continues and as always, you will have to go over to the CBC Radio 2 site to listen to the music and voice-over by Paolo Pietropaolo.
A minor: The Faded Beauty
Also known as:
The Wilted Rose.
The Cougar.
A minors you might know:
Miss Havisham from Great Expectations.
Blanche DuBois from A Streetcar Named Desire.
Blanche Devereaux from The Golden Girls.
The notes: A – B – C – D – E – F – G♯ – A.
Number of sharps/flats: none.
Relative major: C major.
What they said about A minor in the 18th century:
“The worst key of all, so sleepy, phlegmatic, that it should be perhaps the least used.” – J.J.H. Ribock, 1783
“Extremely lugubrious and gloomy. It is little practised; if so it expresses slaughters, massacres, and funeral dirges.” – Francesco Galeazzi, 1796
More A minor listening:
Piano Sonata No. 8 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Cello Concerto by Robert Schumann.
If you are a woman how do you vote Republican with stuff like this going on in the party? Just sayn’. Found this on The Dancing Professor, go there for a fantastic read/rant as well.
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