So Long 2008, I won't miss you.

Here's my last post of the year. Here's a link.

http://abstrusegoose.com/52

See ya in 2009.

Winter Break, Shoe Thrown

http://bushbash.flashgressive.de/

Seriously this game is of the quality you'd see for one of those ads that's not really a game and more of an advertisement for insurance of some other crap like that.

I'm dreadfully sorry I didn't think of posting about the Governor Blago getting caught by the Feds. Funny stuff. Poetic justice is funny.

Prez Bush is totally on my team for Fantasy Dodgeball.

Oh look it snowed. The plows didn't get there in time. Gee ya think the budget cuts caused the massive traffic jams? Where'd all the money the 10% fricking sales tax go? Todd Stroger's pockets probably. At least I wasn't in the middle of it for once. In fact I got both the long and short end of that stick during work. Yesterday nobody came in. Today they came in and were cranky and cold.

Oh, and beat my score of 28 on that game. Probably pretty easy to do.

Oh, Yoshi, I have forsaken you.

Creationism quotes

If the solar system was brought about by an accidental collision, then the appearance of organic life on this planet was also an accident, and the whole evolution of Man was an accident too. If so, then all our present thoughts are mere accidents - the accidental by-product of the movement of atoms. And this holds for the thoughts of the materialists and astronomers as well as for anyone else's. But if their thoughts - i.e., Materialism and Astronomy - are mere accidental by-products, why should we believe them to be true? I see no reason for believing that one accident should be able to give me a correct account of all the other accidents. It's like expecting the accidental shape taken by the splash when you upset a milk-jug should give you a correct account of how the jug was made and why it was upset. -C.S. Lewis

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell. -C.S. Lewis

My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust? If the whole show was bad and senseless from A to Z, so to speak, why did I, who was supposed to be part of the show, find myself in such a violent reaction against it?... Of course I could have given up my idea of justice by saying it was nothing but a private idea of my own. But if i did that, then my argument against God collapsed too--for the argument depended on saying the world was really unjust, not simply that it did not happen to please my fancies. Thus, in the very act of trying to prove that God did not exist - in other words, that the whole of reality was senseless - I found I was forced to assume that one part of reality - namely my idea of justice - was full of sense. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never have known it was dark. Dark would be without meaning. -C.S. Lewis

If God would concede me His omnipotence for 24 hours, you would see how many changes I would make in the world. But if He gave me His wisdom too, I would leave things as they are. -J.M.L. Monsabre

Someone once said that if you sat a million monkeys at a million typewriters for a million years, one of them would eventually type out all of Hamlet by chance. But when we find the text of Hamlet, we don't wonder whether it came from chance and monkeys. Why then does the atheist use that incredibly improbable explanation for the universe? Clearly, because it is his only chance of remaining an atheist. At this point we need a psychological explanation of the atheist rather than a logical explanation of the universe. -Peter Kreeft