Necessary Roughness

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Archive for September, 2007

Matins and Memorization
Sunday, September 30th, 2007

This morning NR Wife was suffering from a nasty headache, so we stayed home. We weren’t idle, as the older twin and I sang Matins this morning at the piano. She has the beginning memorized all up to the Venite (Psalm 95:1-7). I need to memorize it better myself so that I can focus on [...]

The Ethanol Market Peaks?
Sunday, September 30th, 2007

The International Herald Tribune reports that the lack of distribution capacity for ethanol has caused a glut at the newly built distilleries. Ethanol is already down 30 percent since May. The article is an interesting study in market self-correction as supply and demand are unnaturally shifted.
The author makes a statement that just grates:
While generous [...]

Baby Born at 10oz Goes Home 5-1/2lb
Saturday, September 29th, 2007

HT: Drudge
The UK Daily Mail reports that a baby born at just 10 ounces and 25 weeks in Hanover, Germany, has now gone home with mom and dad, six months later at 5½ pounds.
Congratulations to the parents and to the University Clinic in Göttingen. In a city more famous for who died in it than [...]

Give It Away, Give It Away Now
Friday, September 28th, 2007

Heaven help us. Hillary thinks we’re in Russia now.
AP reports that Hillary Rodham Clinton thinks that every child born in the U.S. should get a $5,000 baby bond for college or for the down payment of buying a home.
This sounds a little bit like Vladimir Putin’s monthly payments for having more children, only Hillary’s [...]

No Harm to Christianity, Sure.
Friday, September 28th, 2007

CNSNews reports that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sees no harm to Christianity in the vulgar Folsom Street Fair advertisements. I concur, but there was harm done.
Harm was done to the visitors of San Francisco whose money was confiscated by hotel tax to pay for this party.
Harm was done to the proper application of the [...]