Just when you think our enemies-turned-snuggle-buddies are domesticated, Russia goes and revives long-range bomber patrols.
After joint military exercises with my in-laws.
Hmmm. Wonder what their plans are.
Archive for the ‘News’ Category
Back in the U.S.S.R.
Posted in Common Sense, News, Politics on August 17, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Note to Chavez
Posted in Culture of Death, News, Politics on July 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Shut your damn flan-hole.
The rest of the civilized world has known for some time that power-hungry egomaniacs with wannabe communist pinko bastard tendencies don’t realize that there’s an “off” position on the stupid incendiary comments switch, but you don’t need to go reminding us every five minutes.
I can’t wait until alternative fuel technologies cut our [...]
There’s a Perfectly Reasonable Explanation
Posted in Catholic, Funny, Motu Mania, News on June 6, 2007 | 3 Comments »
The Globe and Mail is reporting that a funny thing happened on the way to the papal audience today:
VATICAN CITY — A person hurled himself over a barricade and tried to jump into the back of Pope Benedict XVI’s Popemobile during his general audience Wednesday in St. Peter’s Square and was wrestled to the ground by [...]
They’re Really Hoping
Posted in Common Sense, Liturgy, Motu Mania, News, Tradition on May 30, 2007 | 9 Comments »
Latin Mass might not boost congregations:
For decades, the pre-Vatican II Tridentine Mass could only be celebrated by a priest with permission from his bishop.
But a Vatican official, Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, confirmed earlier this month that Pope Benedict XVI would soon relax the restrictions on celebrating the Tridentine Mass because of a “new and renewed [...]
The True China Resurfaces
Posted in Culture of Death, News on May 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I have always been fascinated with Asia, and I love much of Chinese culture. My wife is American-born Chinese, and both of her parents are from Guangdong, the Cantonese-speaking southern province.
China is a place I’ve long wished to visit, but one that I admittedly fear. Though the communist government in China has softened in some [...]
The Title Says it All
Posted in Funny, News on May 18, 2007 | 3 Comments »
“Short, fat people may get rights…”
I’m Definitely In the Wrong Line of Work
Posted in News on May 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I should be a treasure hunter. It’d be way more fun anyway, even without the loot:
Deep-sea explorers said Friday they have mined what could be the richest shipwreck treasure in history, bringing home 17 tons of colonial-era silver and gold coins from an undisclosed site in the Atlantic Ocean. Estimated value: $500 million.
A jet chartered [...]
Old Nudists Never Die…
Posted in Funny, News on May 14, 2007 | 3 Comments »
…they just become recruiters. It appears that like many other ideas from the time of the inversion, Nudism is on the decline. Young people just aren’t interested:
Here’s the naked truth about nude recreation: The people who practice it aren’t getting any younger.
To draw 20- and 30-somethings, nudist groups and camps are trying everything [...]
The Latest on the Motu Proprio
Posted in Liturgy, News, Restoration on May 14, 2007 | 3 Comments »
In case you haven’t seen this everywhere else yet:
In a private audience with one leading traditionalist, Alice von Hildebrand, Pope Benedict said that he intended to publish the permission to celebrate the 16th-century rite this month.
The document had been expected earlier but is understood to have been delayed after a seven-page document [...]
The Real Steve
Posted in News on May 10, 2007 | 22 Comments »
I talk a good game about the desire for rural life, but when faced with the possibility of summers with brutal temperatures and high humidity, my stoicism begins to crumble and my inner wimp rears his ugly head:
The research found that eastern U.S. summer daily high temperatures that currently average in the low-to-mid-80s (degrees [...]
