September 11, 2008 – 9:42 pm
St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox church, aka The Third Tower, just minutes before the tower collapsed on it. This is a fantastic (if huge pdf) tribute to the church.
UPDATE: Story and rebuilding updates here. Thanks to Amy for the correction!
September 9, 2008 – 8:20 am
According to tradition, Anna, the ancestor of God, lived for sixty-nine years, and her spouse Joachim, for eighty; according to one account, Saint Joachim died two years before Saint Anna. The Theotokos had been orphaned of both her parents already when she was eleven years of age, when she was living in the Temple (see Sept. 8 and Nov. 21). Saint Anna is invoked for conceiving children, and for help in difficult childbirth.
Anna’s page here.
September 8, 2008 – 5:40 am
but not his running mate. Joe Biden, yesterday:
I’m prepared as a matter of faith to accept that life begins at the moment of conception.
As a reminder, just last month Obama said he couldn’t answer the question as to when human life begins because it’s “above his pay grade.” Not even a statement that anyone could agree or disagree with but a wishy washy, no meaning phrase. Rather than erring on the side of life, he uses that as a (lame) excuse to avoid defending his past pro-abortion decisions.
Seriously, if freakin’ Joe Biden can make a definitive statement on the subject why can’t Barack Obama? How bad are you to make Joe Biden look unequivocal by comparison?
September 7, 2008 – 9:41 pm
I’m not sure this is exactly reassuring to gun owners:
Even if I want to take them away, I don’t have the votes in Congress.
September 5, 2008 – 9:01 pm
UPDATE: I just noticed Mr. Bob posted this earlier today. Umm….thanks, Bob!
September 4, 2008 – 8:05 pm
Jooooooe Biiiiiiiden, (D), currently running for the office of Vice-President of the United States.
Announcer one: “Well Ted, I gotta say, I have been watching this game for a long time and I don’t think that I have ever seen this kind of speed by a candidate. The way he literally changed his public position overnight must be some kind of record!”
As if Joe Biden hasn’t given us enough material with which to work, he’s just got to be the gift that keeps on giving, doesn’t he? Maybe that’s it - he lies because he cares.
September 4, 2008 – 5:47 am
…because that’s what the left does, after all, when they find their arguments are wrong from beginning to end. Then if the dirty tricks don’t work, they sue to get their way. So when does the suing start?
Mr. Bob found this interesting piece of nastiness on LGF:
Suddenly appearing among the Google search results for “sarah palin gay,” a web site titled: Sarah Palin Supports Gay Rights…….
But look who’s really behind this.
In the Linux console, if you enter the following commands, you can learn the secrets of a political dirty trick. First, look up the host of ‘sarahpalingayrights.com’ to get the site’s IP address.
host sarahpalingayrights.com
sarahpalingayrights.com has address 74.208.74.232
Then use the same command to look up the domain name pointer of that IP address.
host 74.208.74.232
232.74.208.74.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer obamadefense.com
And what happens if you enter obamadefense.com on your browser’s address line?
Why, you’re redirected to none other than FightTheSmears.com, the official Barack Obama site that’s supposed to be defending him against smears.
Looks like they may have a second purpose: to generate a few smears of their own.
There’s more, too. Go read it all.
September 3, 2008 – 10:41 pm
You have to give her that. Although tomorrow morning, the MSM won’t. Geraghty puts it nicely:
Tonight, we either saw a watershed in American politics, a tour de force, the most striking and graceful debut in our nation’s political life, and a national introduction that makes Barack Obama’s 2004 convention address look like small potatoes… or we saw what we wanted to see, and the country’s persuadable independents saw something else. I’m afraid to believe. If I’m wrong, I don’t really know what Americans want. I know conservatives are thrilled to pieces, and they ought to be. She knocked it out of the park.
September 2, 2008 – 10:34 pm
Just helping out where I can.
Background here.
UPDATE: Heh, I like this response.
September 1, 2008 – 9:39 pm
September 1 is the first day of the ecclesiastical new year. From the GOARCH website:
Since the completion of each year takes place, as it were, with the harvest and gathering of the crops into storehouses, and we begin anew from henceforth the sowing of seed in the earth for the production of future crops, September is considered the beginning of the New Year. The Church also keeps festival this day, beseeching God for fair weather, seasonable rains, and an abundance of the fruits of the earth.
The Holy Scriptures (Lev. 23:24-5 and Num. 29:1-2) also testify that the people of Israel celebrated the feast of the Blowing of the Trumpets on this day, offering hymns of thanksgiving.
Heck, if there are trumpets involved….
September 1, 2008 – 9:20 am
Interesting post this morning on The Next Right. Matt Moon reminds us that most VP picks have historically played the role of hatchetman; to go after the opposition ruthlessly without directly putting the presidential nominee in that role. Sarah Palin wasn’t selected for that role, though - an important distinction from past nominees.
The point that I haven’t been able to put my finger on, but Moon nails is that McCain picked Palin from a position of strength while Obama picked Biden from a position of weakness.
After going through a well-publicized internal struggle over picking somebody like himself versus picking somebody that fills in his weaknesses, Obama went for the latter and decided that he needed a hatchetman more than anything else. McCain decided to pick a validator, someone who can challenge the “3rd term of Bush” attack head on.
Many good points - read it all.
August 31, 2008 – 5:22 am
…said his father about recently signed Denver Broncos’ middle linebacker Niko Koutouvides.
Hmm, I should’ve posted this when I first saw it. Find another copy of the story here.
August 29, 2008 – 5:55 am
Rocky Mountain Right was on hand at the anti-war march outside the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday when two journalists
“in full DNC press credentials happened to wander in front of my camera. The two were having a heated exchange as one of them wanted to join the left-wingers in their march…
Can’t tell the difference between a protester and a main stream media representative? Maybe that’s because there isn’t any difference.
UPDATE: it’s catching.
August 28, 2008 – 9:22 pm
Demanded Joe Biden in his Wednesday night speech. Does he practice what he preaches? A look by Michael Turk suggests not.
The average male staff assistant in Biden’s office (based on the most recent salary figures) made $39,162 in the time period.
The average woman in that position made $21,323.
Open mouth, insert foot.
