See http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/pwh/bosrev-wilken.h... for a great summary.

Jesus still defines sin as lack of love (Matthew 22:36-40). Those concerned about the sanctity of marriage should insist on outlawing adultery, divorce and abortion. All are sinful because each has an unloved victim. Marriage must be for love, not pregnancy.

What is unloving about a couple in a homosexual love relationships? Neither is victim, neither is unloved. Where is the hurt? Who is the victim being sinned against?

The Gospel writers and prophets do not mention homosexuality because it is not a sin. The King James Version comes closest to a correct translation of two condemning nouns used in Leviticus 18:22 — "sexual immorality". That is not necessarily homosexuality. ("Homosexual" was coined about 1865, so any translation using a form of that word is a lie that needs to be emended.

Barfoot Snowboards Turns 30

His hands are strong and worn, his face weathered from a life spent smiling in the sun and surf, his language peppered with words fit only for R-rated films, and his laughter, frequent and contagious, reeks of slightly dangerous fun. Spend even a short time talking with him and you are guaranteed stories at every turn in the conversation, ranging from nude wine stomps and barefoot hell runs on skateboards down Hot Springs Road to rock climbing chaos with his 90-pound dog Wakunda hanging off him and billy goats kicking rocks onto his head 40 feet up a rock face.

March 2008 - Posts

For the second time this week, Hillary Clinton raised the possibility of running on a joint ticket with Barack Obama. First was on Wednesday's morning shows . Then she did it again this morning at a campaign stop in Mississippi. Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, Read More... .

Texans and Their Tests

That said, the pervasive climate of misguided fear that standardized testing has led to in our secondary schools has no place in "higher education" (which begins to sound suspiciously like "military intelligence" in terms of its descriptive powers). Worse, the childishly simplistic insistence on comparing graduation rates between lavishly funded institutions like the University of Texas at Austin or Dallas and border schools like the University of Texas at Brownsville or the University of Texas Pan American can only continue to exacerbate the neo-colonialist approach that our state continues to take to its southern border. No child left behind indeed! Tell that to our thousands of part-time students struggling to make ends meet while trying to get by on what financial aid they can find, simulutaneously working one or more jobs and trying to find classes in understaffed and underfunded institutions.

Trading Day stock market blog

That means the blog updates may run a little late now and then if there's some real work to do for clients. It also means that this blog is provided for information only. There are no buy or sell recommendations here. If you want trading advice, hire yourself a good advisor. I may be buying or selling any security you read about here, before, after, or simultaneously with a blog posting. You will never know.

SUPER PHREAK: ED PISKOR TALKS “WIZZYWIG”

Sometimes, then as now, this was done for profit or malice, but more often these experiments were motivated by curiosity or simple mischief. Ed Piskors ("American Splendor") new self-published graphic novel, Wizzywig, tells a fictionalized account of the early days of hacking, when enterprising phone phreaks pushed the limits of telephonic applications. CBR News spoke with Piskor about the history of Wizzywig and the personalities and events that inspired it.

The story begins with Kevin Boingthump Phenicle already in police custody, and his friend Winston advocating for him on a radio program. This has the effect of adding a touch of "legend" to Boingthumps exploits even before we see him perform his first hack. From here, Wizziwig flashes back to Kevins childhood, a picture of struggle and loneliness that would come to serve his technological obsession well.

Fancy a sickie? See your chemist

It's amazing how many sickies are attached to weekends and public holidays.I was brought up, that you always went to work even if sick, then went home if it got worse. Often, it just got better as my body exercised. NO sickies on Gallipoli, or at Tobruk, or along the Kokoda Trail, or in Vietnam - unless you were totally incapacitated !Back then, BLUDGER was the worst insult you could call a bloke, now it's become a comical byword.

It all sounds a very good idea on paper, but human nature being what it is I feel (know) that it will be abused by a proportion of the public and also chemists.