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Saturday, January 29, 2005
I'm not usually disappointed with Ann Coulter, but this most recent column, in which she calls opponents of STML abortions a "lunatic fringe" is not like her, or at least I thought it wasn't.
I have a question. Is there any illness, weakness or infirmity in the world that a woman can have whereby giving birth will kill her but a surgically invasive abortion procedure will not? That one's been bugging me for a while. |
Monday, January 24, 2005
The bear went over the mountain,
The bear went over the mountain, The bear went over the mountain, To see what he could see. The great American desert, The great American desert, The great American desert, Was all that he could see. I've never really thought of myself as much of a naturalist, but the mountains and desert northeast of my barracks lit by the moon and nothing else are something which must be seen. I wanted to get my mind onto something more carefree, so I went up the mountains which stand uphill from the rest of the mainside base for the following reason: Absence of a fence. I climbed up a steep sandy path (I thought the sandy route would be safer), pausing several times to catch my breath and to regret not bringing any water or wearing sneakers instead of boots. When at the top, I called my brother, who was still busy at work. After that, I decided to explore a bit. Off to the southwest was a certain trail I knew of because we had gone there on a PT run one time. I decided reaching that pass would be my goal. Along the way, I tried to climb every peak I came upon, but I still could not find this place with the naked eye. I felt like Columbus, who kept hoping that his path to the far east would appear right around the next island. Or alternatively, I felt like Balboa looking for the Pacific. Eventually, out of stubbornness more than anything, I finally found this path and took it all the way home. The whole trek, exclusive of the trip back, was probably about 1.5 miles as the crow flies, and as I climbed, ran, walked and slid, probably more like two miles, practically applied. |
Saturday, January 22, 2005
I finally picked up class a few days ago and things are going tolerably well. We had a Master Sergeants run, and I realized I could be in better shape. It was a mere 2.75 miles, and it just took it out of me. I guess part of that is that the air is thinner out here, and they deliberately took us up as many hills and slopes as they could without going off the course.
My class is a night class, so every night we begin at about 1800 and leave when we're done with whatever lessons we need to cover. So far all they've taught us is some basic principles of electronics, and I'm barely keeping my head above water. If I could change something about my enlistment, it would be to make sure I got lower scores on the tests they gave, so I wouldn't get this school. I suppose I really ought to get myself moving on the application to Christendom I am in the middle of. I've filled out the main form, now I need to write the three essays and get the two recommendation letters. This year, as last year, I'm having trouble deciding who I should ask to write each one. I'm also concerned about another thing which pertains to applications and college plans as a reservist: Has my reserve unit (which I shall have to join as soon as I'm done with this school) been deployed overseas? The standard deployment is about seven months, so if it is there but has been there for only a short while, I might as well not apply, since it would avail me nothing. Besides all that, I'm bummed out about something. I don't like being depressed anywhere, but being in the middle of the desert hardly makes the situation any better. |
Wednesday, January 12, 2005
Monday, January 10, 2005
"It's a small Marine Corps" - Senior Drill Instructor Ssgt. Wooten.
Very true. I had known for a while that an acquaintance of mine, John Williams (who lived in Northern Virginia and whom I knew by way of Opus Dei) had joined the Marines. I didn't quite expect to run into him at mass in this rather small, very remote base. He spent some time in Okinawa before going to Iraq. He then came back and now he is going to Iraq again. He is currently a Lance Corporal. Not only that, but in our conversation, I found that he was also in Golf Company, only about wo cycles before me, and that he had the same drill hat (second drill instructor in command) that I did. |
Sunday, January 02, 2005
This morning during his homily, Father read us paragraph 841 from the CCC, which says that Muslims adore with us the one true God. He did this to beat down what he saw as the regrettable tendency for Christians to believe that muslims are going to Hell unless they get their ticket changed.
All well and good, but let's look at Paragraph 987: "In the forgiveness of sins, both priests and sacraments are instruments which our Lord Jesus Christ, the only author and liberal giver of salvation, wills to use in order to efface our sins and give us the grace of justification", emphasis added. Let us further review. Muslims believe: That Jesus is not God. That Jesus is not the son of God. That God cannot have a son. That Jesus did not die on the cross. That Jesus did not rise from the dead. That we are not God's children. That a pederast like Mohammed, so far from being a pederast, was very holy. That Mohammed came and, on behalf of Allah, established a new and pure religion in the midst of a sinful world, and that Abraham was also a Muslim almost 2,000 years earlier. I'll call this one "What Muslims Believe" after a Rich Lowry collumn of similar name. |
Saturday, January 01, 2005
Speaking of tidings of great joy, congratulations to Shalon Spring (Admissions director at Christendom) and her boyfriend Mark, who got engaged on December 4th.
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