Here and There
- Solomon wrote there will be no end of the writing of books. If he lived now, he would decry the endless cacophony of electronic verbiage. Page after page of endless, mindless tripe. People selling something; people saying something. No body reading anything! If the page doesn't have pictures, [click] the viewer is gone. Everyone is looking for entertainment. No one is looking for substance. But we keep on writing and we think someone will read it. Oh, how we deceive ourselves -- convinced of our own immortality. Words, words, words . . . - cominus
Monthly Archives: August 2008
The Gap Between John McCain and Obama is Widening
A couple days ago, a key legislative aid for a local congressman and I were discussing the upcoming Presidential Election. We were both lamenting that if John McCain continued to kick in the teeth of the conservatives, he was going to lose this election for sure. And the two of us were probably not going [...]
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Obama and the Democrat Convention
This is from our friends at Restore America: Having watched and re-watched the spectacle at Invesco Field in Denver as Barach Hussein Obama accepted his party’s nomination to become the next President of the United States-and ostensibly the most influential person in the entire world-several observations were unavoidable for thinking Americans.
Short and Strange
This just in – and it goes along with what we have been talking about the last couple days. There is no substance in the public arena, everything is perception and how we feel. John Edwards was banned from making a speech at the 2008 Democrat convention for having an affair and lying about it. [...]
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Snohomish County GOP Apologizes to Democrats
This just in from Jackie Juntti: According to today’s Seattle P-I, a Republican fair booth worker was handing out fake three dollar bills with an image of Barak Hussein Obama wearing a turban and an inscription, “IBD14UOK” (I be de one for you, OK). The reactions to this are a perfect sequel to my post [...]
The Sin of Cain: Attitude or Action?
revised from an article written by Dean Isaacson ©2004 “What do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first and said, ‘Son , go and work today in the vineyard.’ “‘I will not,’ he answered, but later he changed his mind and went. “Then the father went to [...]
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Judicial Election Results – WA Primary 2008
Posted on 20 August at http://cominus.com/judicial-elections/ . However, it just occurred to me that blog readers might not be aware of that. So here it is - Here is how the results shake out:
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What Does This Sign Mean?
During my travels, I have come across many amusing signs. Sometimes I get the photo and sometimes I miss. This photo was taken in Butte, MT. I have tried to understand what this means. What is “local traffic”? Vehicles near the sign have the right-of-way over vehicles farther away? The area is populated with with [...]
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What is True Leadership