The Year You Were Born

In 1964 (the year you were born)

Lyndon B. Johnson is president of the US
After riots break out, Panama suspends relations with he US
Cassius Clay becomes heavyweight champion when Sonny Liston throws in the towel in the sixth round in Miami Near Anchorage, the strongest earthquake ever to strike North America kills 117
Worst soccer disaster in […]

Filed under: Cultural, Fun With Blogs

What American Regionalisms?

Your Linguistic Profile:

50% Yankee

35% General American English

10% Upper Midwestern

5% Dixie

0% Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

Filed under: Cultural, Fun With Blogs

Provocative Questions

Dennis Rahkonen (’The Republican Wile E. Coyote‘, 6-27-05) thinks that Durbin’s apology was unwise. In his view, we should perhaps be making more actual historical comparisions between this administration and that of Hitler’s Germany. Here are some starter questions for eager researchers…
Did German motorists have “Support Our Troops” ribbons on their Volkswagens in 1943?
Did […]

Filed under: Cultural, Human Rights, Political, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

How Jedi Quiz

how jedi are you? :: by lawrie malen

Filed under: Cultural, Fun With Blogs, , , ,

Poor Katie Holmes

Ok, I don’t usually post opinions about the Hollywood types, but this Scientology thing has been bothering me for a number of years.
Perhaps Katie Holmes should do a little research before the control-conversion is complete?
http://www.rickross.com/groups/scientology.html
http://www.lermanet.com/cos/tom.htm (see Tom Cruise saluting at top)
http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/scientology.htm
http://www.religionnewsblog.com/11280
http://www.xenu.net/archive/disk/archive/quotes.htm
http://www.accesshollywood.com/accesstomcruise/index.html

Filed under: Cultural, Human Rights, Religion, , ,

Which theologian are you?

Kind of outdated and the questions aren’t that great, but anyway…

You scored as Paul Tillich. Paul Tillich sought to express Christian truth in an existentialist way. Our primary problem is alienation from the ground of our being, so that our life is meaningless.

Paul Tillich

87%

Jurgen Moltmann

73%

Martin Luther

67%

Charles Finney

60%

Friedrich Schleiermacher

53%

John Calvin

53%

Augustine

47%

Karl Barth

20%

Jonathan Edwards

13%

Anselm

0%

Which theologian are […]

Filed under: Fun With Blogs, Religion, Viral, , , , , , ,

Notes on “Feminazi”

Rush Limbaugh defends his use of the term “feminazi” as “right” and “accurate” in response to a June 22 Washington Post article on Sen. Richard J. Durbin’s (D-IL) controversial floor statement that referenced Nazis. The Post article mentioned Limbaugh’s use of the term “feminazi” as well as other examples of recent political debates in which […]

Filed under: Human Rights, Political, Religion, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Recent Posts:

Bad Behavior has blocked 3745 access attempts in the last 7 days.