A Nail In His Place http://www.anailinhisplace.net The Blog Of James A. Weaks Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:55:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Posted From My FriendFeed: : “Cream rises to … http://friendfeed.com/e/6f8d1bb4-884b-4c65-900a-4a39f5c4d589 http://www.anailinhisplace.net/2012/01/09/posted-from-my-friendfeed-cream-rises-to-3/#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:56:03 +0000 James A. Weaks http://friendfeed.com/e/6f8d1bb4-884b-4c65-900a-4a39f5c4d589 “Cream rises to the top” is true only if you work in a dairy. Otherwise it must be lifted to whatever height it will occupy. Count yourself lucky if you have friends who are willing to lift you up. -Roy H. Williams

]]> http://www.anailinhisplace.net/2012/01/09/posted-from-my-friendfeed-cream-rises-to-3/feed/ 0 Posted From My FriendFeed: : “Cream rises to … http://www.anailinhisplace.net/2012/01/09/posted-from-my-friendfeed-cream-rises-to-2/ http://www.anailinhisplace.net/2012/01/09/posted-from-my-friendfeed-cream-rises-to-2/#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:56:03 +0000 Administrator http://friendfeed.com/e/6f8d1bb4-884b-4c65-900a-4a39f5c4d589 “Cream rises to the top” is true only if you work in a dairy. Otherwise it must be lifted to whatever height it will occupy. Count yourself lucky if you have friends who are willing to lift you up. -Roy H. Williams

]]> http://www.anailinhisplace.net/2012/01/09/posted-from-my-friendfeed-cream-rises-to-2/feed/ 0 Posted From My FriendFeed: : “Cream rises to … http://www.anailinhisplace.net/2012/01/09/posted-from-my-friendfeed-cream-rises-to/ http://www.anailinhisplace.net/2012/01/09/posted-from-my-friendfeed-cream-rises-to/#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 15:56:03 +0000 Administrator http://friendfeed.com/e/6f8d1bb4-884b-4c65-900a-4a39f5c4d589 “Cream rises to the top” is true only if you work in a dairy. Otherwise it must be lifted to whatever height it will occupy. Count yourself lucky if you have friends who are willing to lift you up. -Roy H. Williams

]]> http://www.anailinhisplace.net/2012/01/09/posted-from-my-friendfeed-cream-rises-to/feed/ 0 Evolution, the Bible, and the 3.5 Million Dollar Violin http://www.anailinhisplace.net/2012/01/05/evolution-the-bible-and-the-3-5-million-dollar-violin/ http://www.anailinhisplace.net/2012/01/05/evolution-the-bible-and-the-3-5-million-dollar-violin/#comments Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:18:45 +0000 jweaks http://www.anailinhisplace.net/?p=8695 It was 7th grade biology class, and we began to learn the theory of evolution. The evidence seemed absolutely clear to me—evolution was an undeniable fact. I picked up my bible and compared what I read to what I learned in my biology class. The accounts seemed clearly contradictory. It didn’t take much time for me to conclude that all of Christianity was a sham. I will come back to this in a bit, but first, do me a favor and let me tell you another story…

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By Andrew Cline on 11.17.11 @ 6:09AM

Occupy Wall Street’s failed reversal of American society.

In the last few weeks it’s seemed as though one could learn more about the Occupy Wall Street movement from the police blotter than from anywhere else. As the arrests piled up, many protesters who found themselves on the business end of a baton or a set of plastic handcuffs ranted about the perils of living in a “police state,” which is beautifully ironic. A group organized for the very purpose of demanding that the government assume greater control over our lives shook itself apart in violent spasms of rebellion against the government’s effort to enforce the most basic rules of society.

The intellectual incoherence of the Occupy Wall Street movement…

The rest of the story…  The American Spectator : The Two Months War.

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The presidency of Barack Obama is full of funny things that need not follow any sort of logic. Images and ideas just pop in and out, without worry of inconsistency, contradiction or hypocrisy. It’s a fascinating mish-mash of strange heroes and bogeymen, this imaginarium of our president.

In the imaginarium, there are no revolving doors, earmarks, or lobbyists. So Peter Orszag did not go from being OMB director to a Citigroup fat-cat. Once chief-of-staff Rahm Emanuel did not make $16 million for his well-known banking expertise. The more you damn the pernicious role of lobbyists and the polluting role of big money, the more you must hire and seek out both. Public financing of campaigns is wonderful for everyone else who lacks the integrity of Barack Obama who understandably must renounce such unfair impositions.

Those who now vote against raising the large Obama debt ceiling are political hucksters and opportunists; those who not long ago voted against raising the smaller Bush debt ceiling were principled statesmen. “Unpatriotic” presidents borrow $4 trillion in eight years; patriotic ones we’ve been waiting for can trump that in three…

The rest of the story via The Imaginarium of Barack Obama.

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