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Archive for April, 2009

I have a lot to learn and I very much look forward to listening and figuring out how we can work together more effectively

The Iranian nation is ready to become more involved in maintaining order and security based on justice in many regions of the world

Values and norms that held societies together and drew people to higher ideals are laughed at and thrown overboard.

Jesus continues to be ridiculed

May we never question or mock serious things in life like a cynic

Religious sentiments’ were increasingly ranked among the ‘unwelcome leftovers of antiquity’ and ‘held up to scorn and ridicule’

We are shocked to see to what levels of brutality human beings can sink

Jesus is humiliated in new ways even today when things that are most holy and profound in the faith are being trivialised, the sense of the sacred is allowed to erode

Pirates took an American hostage. We stood up and they blinked. Now it’s our fault.

This could escalate violence in this part of the world, no question about it

– Navy Vice Admiral Bill Gortney talks about piracy off the coast of Africa.

It sounds to me that violence in “that part of the world” is pretty high already.

I’m just the byline. The heroes are the Navy, the Seals and those that have brought me home

He saved his crew. He is a hero.

After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb.

There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, going to the tomb, rolled back the stone and sat on it. His appearance was like lightning, and his clothes were white as snow. The guards were so afraid of him that they shook and became like dead men.

The angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay. Then go quickly and tell his disciples: ‘He has risen from the dead and is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him.’ Now I have told you.”

Happy Easter!

I hate to say this, but he’s a serial exaggerator

If I was being unkind I would say liar

But it is a habit he ought to drop

Some of the men and women I work with in Congress are socialists

It seems that the White House contains socialists too.