183 results for d'Nalgar

Preaching to the choir

This is the excellent post-Christmas sermon, titled “Eight Days Later” (taken from Luke 2: 21-40), that Reverend Rich Lang preached on Sunday, December 26, 2010, to his Trinity United Methodist Church in Seattle, Washington. – Monsieur d’Nalgar Have you ever…  [more]

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Burning man

I was scanning through Al Jazeera’s timeline of the “unrest” in Tunisia: http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/spotlight/tunisia/2011/01/201114142223827361.html …and was struck by the differences between how others around the world take a stand as compared to we self-centered, it’s-all-about-us Americans.  Back on December 17, Mohammed…  [more]

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Connecting dots

Two days ago, Chris asked the following:  “Any good answers to the Hariri killing and the switch in emphasis to Hezbollah?  Or to what Hillary’s doing in Yemen?” Re. Hillary Clinton’s trip to Yemen, I’ve seen/read little so far except…  [more]

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When dead birds fly

“O all ye exorcizers come and exorcize now, and ye clergymen draw nigh and clerge, For I wish to be purged of an urge.” – Ogden Nash, from “So Does Everybody Else, Only Not So Much”   Sweet, sweet surrender to…  [more]

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The Mooslims are coming!!

Another letter to the editor, titled “Force creeping into America,”  in today’s Sentinel Record, from a reliably regular hater of all things Muslim… Monsieur d’Nalgar Dear editor: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,…  [more]

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You can’t make this stuff up

Arkansas is nicknamed “The Natural State.”  We have deer and fox (and possums, raccoons, eagles, buzzards, etc.) who walk or fly by our home nearly every day.  But the state of our state is most unnatural on this, the second …  [more]

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A theory of everything

Introductory note:  This explanation of the current political scene in Israel can easily be adapted to help explain our own emerging fascism, and the rise of our own American Hezbollah, which will hereafter be referred to as “The Tea…  [more]

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