May
Hola, chicos. While it's true I've severely backed off blogging for the summer, I'm tired of my to do list tonight and have been reading around and found a few things I don't want to lose track of so I sez to myself, I sez, "Self, why not start stacking up a list?" I'll add new stuff to the top as I go. Or something.
May 11/08:
Calling all Tacoma owners. $$$
Via Daniel Pipes, Mike Wallace interviewing then Israeli-US Ambassador Abba Eban in 1958:[w]e have certainly achieved our territorial settlement as a result of agreements, not as a result of violence. It was they who decreed the method by which the present frontiers were achieved. They rejected the 1947 recommendation.
(video & transcripts)
We said, "Let us have boundaries by international agreement"; they said, "Let us fix our boundaries by war," and they made the war. But following the war, we reached agreements and these agreements define our boundaries, and we... and they have agreed that they may not be changed except by mutual consent.
But much more important even than history and law, is this basic moral question: Here we, are eight thousand square miles, perhaps the smallest state in the international community; here they are, eleven sovereign states, three million square miles, four hundred times our area, and we have the fantastic doctrine --
May 10/08:
- Beer: The conservative beverage.
- 13 Marks of Biblical Manhood
- Math Magic: Whatever you do you'll always end up with four.
May 6/08: Does anyone in the house know anything about teaching kids how to speak German? If so, Alice wants to speak with you. Other than that, a couple of things tonight.
- Can you spell election trap? The Libs & NDP want it and they want it right now.
- Coolest. Site. Ever (ht: Rick)
May 5/08: Behold! Vegetable Rights (via)
May
- Why read it when there's video? Milton Friedman brilliantly smiles his way through the death of the Capitalism is Born of Human Greed Theory.
- Why burn your eyes out watching video when you can shut 'em and listen? John Piper podcast in Britain: Treasuring Christ and the Call to Suffer Pt 2 "In order for Christ to be killed there had to be killers." No one thinks about suffering like John Piper. A resource list.
- Deborah Gyapong quotes a United Church progressive commenting on calls for the church to wipe out the term "Christianity": "Even Rev. Giuliano agrees that the name Christian -- which carries the baggage of colonialism and other ills -- should probably be phased out. Instead, he would replace "Christian" with "Follower of the Way" or "Follower of Jesus."" Read the whole post over there before weighing in on that one. To me, Deborah Gyapong is like Canada's Anchoress. I am a fan.
- Oh yeah, I almost forgot. Changing the world one video game at a time. Get ICED! I Can End Deportation and so should you. You recall past influential games like Doom, now we have the ultimate in cyber social justice.
- And finally, Rum Fritters. Mmmmm....fritters.


