http://www.xisrandom.net Random Thoughts of an Atheist Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:01:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As I've done my very best to not go out of me way to not care about the Olympics, it's been very hard to completely miss George W. Bush making an ass of himself in China.  The silly faces and gestures he's made were likely throwback moves when he was ... http://www.xisrandom.net/2008/08/14/religious-freedom/ Another e-mail.  May have been an advertisement for Thomas Kincade paintings.  There was representations of about four of them in animated form. One rainy afternoon I was driving along one of the main streets of town, taking those extra precautions necessary when the roads are wet and slick. Suddenly, my daughter, Aspen, spoke ... http://www.xisrandom.net/2008/08/12/rainy-day-comparison/ So I've been running into some bad luck here lately. My site has been hacked twice in the last week and a half.  So I've had to go through and fix the posts that they have replaced and reset my settings, which makes it look like my old posts are new.  ... http://www.xisrandom.net/2008/08/11/a-little-bad-luck/ We received an invitation.  I think everybody in our town did.  We didn't think anything of it though.  There was no way that we were going to attend such an event. Nonetheless, my doorbell rang the other day as my daughter's friend hollered for her to come out. "You gotta see this, ... http://www.xisrandom.net/2008/08/06/gum-and-games/ My wife has a life-long friend, and I think that is nice.  Although she really hasn't spent that much time with her childhood friend over the last 12 years or so, she still catches up with her on occasion. Her friend has a daughter that is in between the age of ... http://www.xisrandom.net/2008/08/03/a-view-of-history/ I can't help but notice that the crap e-mail my grandfather was once sending out to everybody that served as propaganda for his political and religious views no longer hit my mailbox.  Like the one that kept talking about Barrack HUSSEIN Obama being a Muslim.  It's ok though.  Other people ... http://www.xisrandom.net/2008/07/30/taxes-and-consequences/ My wife was out shopping yesterday and had to use the restroom. A woman approached her, as she was washing her hands, and asked her if she goes to church.  My wife replied with a no.  The woman replied with, that's too bad.  Apparently, this woman believes that 9/11/2009 is going ... http://www.xisrandom.net/2008/07/26/she-was-a-bit-loony/ Teams are of huge importance in Western civilization.  Team spirit or fanaticism is unrivaled. Let's face it.  People are willing to plaster the logo of their favorite team on their car, on their house, and especially on their person.  Team logos are plastered even if it is accompanied by the logo ... http://www.xisrandom.net/2008/07/13/on-team/ Sunrise wrote oh so long ago... Your web page is interesting. What influence you to become a better person? What do you turn to when you need to center yourself and get back on track? First reaction?  What?  Without a god or religion a person can't be centered or has no reason ... http://www.xisrandom.net/2008/07/11/centering/ As if Obama's Father's Day speech wasn't annoying enough.  Since, after all, only Christian fathers celebrated that Sunday. As if, somehow, it doesn't seem that Obama is completely campaigning from the churches these days and not from lecture halls. As if it's not annoying enough that each and every one of his ... http://www.xisrandom.net/2008/07/01/pandering-to-the-choir/ You must enter your Twitter username and password for Twitter Tools to download your tweets.