May 17 2007
Late Thursday Meme, Maybe Early Friday
Thirteen predictions for when I am an old man (in no particular order):
- Two words - rocket boots.
- Our kids will be able to support us in the manner to which we want to be accustomed.
- My book will be done and will have been a major motion picture. Or not. If they still have such things.
- Latest eco-scare? Global cooling. Again. Or was it warming? It changes every few years.
- Still at war with the Caliphate of Eurabia.
- President Bill and his lifemate Leon.
- Evangelicals in America will belong to persecuted underground house churches.
- Mainline churches will ordain and perform marriages for trans-species social bonding units.
- The name of Jesus Christ will be forbidden in any public forum as malicious hate speech. (Don’t worry. He still wins in the end. I read the end of the Book.)
- AlGore and Michael Moore still whining.
- Intracranial entertainment/tracking units are mandatory.
- Gas at $96 a gallon. We still can’t drill in ANWR. No refineries built since the 1960s.
- Last debris from the remains of the International Space Station crashes to earth across Khazakstan.
I tag KingDavid, Karen, Hammerswing, Retired Geezer.
May 18th, 2007 at 08:50 am
I’ll get working on it. I’m a very, very young 50 right now. I’ll have to decide at what point I’m going to consider myself an old man.
May 22nd, 2007 at 15:02 pm
Well, geez. Since I’ll never be an old man, what am I to do with this meme????
Hey, totally OT… I’ve been having rascally thoughts about sending you this wonderful book: http://www.amazon.com/Grand-Canyon-Different-Tom-Vail/dp/0890513732/ref=sr_1_1/102-9162090-6832937?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1179871202&sr=8-1
May 22nd, 2007 at 20:40 pm
Karen,
I’m actually curious to take a look at it because I heard about the controversy it generated when it was pulled by the Park Service. Two things sadden me about the Amazon page - one, that some mindlessly toss aside creationism as “delusional fantasies about winged celestial beings in the sky,” and, two, that the only Christian responses sound like they were written by a pouty fourth grader. They’re full of typos and poor grammar. I almost wonder if they weren’t written by an anti-creationist to paint believers in a bad light.
Young-earth v. old-earth creation is an interesting debate, but I get tired of the anger at the extremes.
May 23rd, 2007 at 14:51 pm
I dislike when believers (and/or homeschoolers, for that matter) show their carelessness or ignorance by “typos and poor grammar,” as well. There are 55 reviews of the book on Amazon, but the four on the front page are as you describe: angry rants or poorly composed defenses. Ugh to both.
Hey, btw, the book was *not* pulled by the NPS. I bought my copy last week at the bookstore at the Grand Canyon’s North Rim