Date Night - Olive Bread

This is the loaf of olive bread Angela and I made for date night Thursday evening. It's white bread with kalamata olives and rosemary. Delicious.


We made it to accompany cappellini pomodoro and a fancy garden salad.

I've decided to post date night updates in hopes that maybe some of you will realize you're missing out and start something like it with your own spouse.

One step closer to life

Brilliant (sarcastic) point by Team TomInTheBox: Mars Lander Discovered AMD Phenom II

Storm clouds gathering

In Canada:

MONTREAL, Quebec --Students in Quebec, Canada are being required to take a new Ethics and Religious Culture class that teaches that "all religions -- including pagan animism and cults -- are equally 'true.'"

Read the rest: http://bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=29813

36 Years After Roe v. Wade: Is It Time to Move On?

Russell Moore discusses the stance of the pro-life movement in the face of very likely major setbacks courtesy of the Obama administration: 36 Years After Roe v. Wade: Is It Time to Move On?

Did you know that FOCA (Freedom of Choice Act), the legislation Obama has promised to sign into law, would remove the right of physicians and hospitals to refuse to perform abortions (freedom of conscience). "Freedom" of "choice", apparently, would not apply to healthcare professionals and the health care industry.

Fight FOCA

Obama avoids divisive stands

I am offended by the slant and tone of this article: Obama breaks from Bush, avoids divisive stands.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Barack Obama opened his presidency by breaking sharply from George W. Bush's unpopular administration, but he mostly avoided divisive partisan and ideological stands. He focused instead on fixing the economy, repairing a battered world image and cleaning up government.

To be fair, the reporter has received criticism in the past for appearing to side with John McCain in this article: Analysis: Obama Chose Winning Over His Word.

The Future of the Prolife Movement

This is an excellent discussion of the future of the prolife movement now that Barack Obama is about to be President. From NPR's Talk of the Nation, Thursday, January 15, 2009:
http://public.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/totn/2009/01/20090115_totn_01.mp3

The guests are Randall Terry, founder of Operation Rescue, Jay Sekulow, from the American Center for Law and Justice, and a catholic priest. I especially appreciated Terry's frank and honest discussion of the issue (for instance, matter-of-factly referring to abortion as "child killing." I thought that Sekulow also argued fairly well, and the priest made a couple good points, too.

According to Wikipedia, Randall Terry is a womanizer and worse. I know nothing about this, I do not know whether or not any of it is true, and I certainly would not endorse that kind of behavior. His comments on this program on the issue of abortion were excellent.

(PS. I have no idea if anyone reads my blog. If you do, please let me know. I am considering posting more often, but don't want to waste too much of my time for a completely imaginary audience.)

This made me smile

Click here if you have 16 1/2 minutes and would appreciate a pick-me-up. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbk980jV7Ao