hell’s handmaiden

“To do this, judges must engage in a continual process of self-questioning about the way in which they are performing the responsibilities of their offices,” he continued. “Judges must also have faith that the cause of justice in the long run is best served if they scrupulously heed the limits of their role rather than transgressing those limits in an effort to achieve a desired result in a particular case.”

Alito Favors Exercise of Judicial Restraint

Sometimes he worries me, as in the case of the strip search of a ten year old girl.

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I stumbled across the following image on AiG and I just had to point it out.

Have you ever seen any other ‘ancient rock painting’ with line as crisp and clean as that?

Compare.

The following handprint has the sharpest lines I found.

Now, honestly, does that look anything at all like a real cave painting?

It would be nice it AiG would mention were the original is located. I can find nothing about it except the one image on AnswersinGenesis. Sure looks fake to me, and I have no reason to believe otherwise– no sources, no citations, no evidence.

Most people who accept evolution do so without ever really thinking about it. Our goal is that those who accept creation do so because they think about it.

Be vigilant

If ‘thinking about it’ means ‘turning a blind eye to any conclusion but the one you started with’ then perhaps people accept creationism because they think about it. If AiG’s goal is to teach people to ‘think’ via innumerable but invalid logical tricks then perhaps they are hitting their goal. If they aim to encourage intellectual dishonesty, I suppose they win hands down. Take a quick peek at the flaws in this one advertisement for their magazine.

Imams, rabbis, Buddhist monks, Hindu holy men and followers of Confucius have strolled the chalky white and pink stone courtyards of the massive basilica here. Anti-globalization activists with fists in the air and Communist atheists carrying Marxist texts have conversed with gentle Catholic monks.

Pope Acts to Restrain Franciscans of Assisi

But no more. Talking to people and making friends apparently isn’t the Catholic way.

I’m sure the Church is within its rights to restrict the activities of its various subdivisions, but restricting this activity is a bad idea for everyone though the Church, as so often is the case, may be too concerned with theology to care about consequences.

In e-mails to his family, Westhusing seemed especially upset by one conclusion he had reached: that traditional military values such as duty, honor and country had been replaced by profit motives in Iraq, where the U.S. had come to rely heavily on contractors for jobs once done by the military.

A Journey That Ended in Anguish - Los Angeles Times

“He was sick of money-grubbing contractors,” the official recounted. Westhusing said that “he had not come over to Iraq for this.”

“I cannot support a msn [mission] that leads to corruption, human rights abuse and liars. I am sullied,” it says. “I came to serve honorably and feel dishonored.