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POPSHappy Birfday, Charles Dickens' "Christmas Carol" more: Interestingly, there is no mention of the following in Dickens' A Christmas Carol: -Christmas tree -wrapped gifts -Anything related to The Nativity (wise men, baby Jesus), although there are plenty of homeless parents all through Dickens' works. While such values as charity, family, and universal goodwill certainly fall well within the Christian tradition, the book is not explicitly Christian much beyond the wish that "God bless us, everyone." Actually, that feels quite Anglican. ;-) There is no mention of Santa Claus per se, but the Ghost of Christmas Present is a big Oðin-like viking spirit, in a green fur-trimmed robe, bare chested and hearty. You know GoCP is going to the holiday swingers party once he drops off Scrooge.[/quote[
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POPSBah! Humbug! You Wimpy Liberals and Socialists May the ghosts of Charles Dickens and his clanking friend, Jacob Marley haunt you, all year long. P.S., conservative christians, "What you do for the least of these, you do for Me.". Have a Merry, y'all!
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POPSBlack In The Age Of Obama Over the decades, conservatives and Republicans have forged and fueled fears of blacks coming after your teenage daughters, your wife, your stereo, your tax money, your job, your kid's college admissions, and the music your kids listen to. It's out in the forefront again with the offensive images on Google. Any so called justification for that hatred such as one clipper posed here on CM is nothing but a smoke screen for the malevolence that lives in his heart.
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POPSA Christmas Carol Now that we are officially beyond Thanksgiving, many of us now face that slippery slope to Christmas. One of my favorite Christmas stories of all time is A Christmas Carol, and I was curious how many different versions have been made over the years. My personal favorite is the George C. Scott version from 1984. As it turns out, there have been at least 13 versions of the story adapted for film in the U.S. and other countries, from a silent version in 1910 to this year's version featuring Jim Carrey as the voice of Ebenezer Scrooge. A Christmas Carol was written by Charles Dickens in 1843, 166 years ago. In addition to clipping movie posters of various versions and a list of the versions made over the years, I also clipped a sketch of Dickens and the original cover of A Christmas Carol as it existed in 1843. Enjoy!
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POPSWriting Your First Novel This excellent highly rated software will help all those would be authors achieve their dream of getting that first novel written and published.
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POPSToy Story Double Feature | Toy Story 3D, Trailer, Release Date Toy Story Double Feature: The first one is the theatrical trailer for Disney and Robert Zemeckis's re-imagining of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, and the other is an exclusive clip for the Toy Story 3D Double Feature, which kicks off its two-week ... Toy story double feature, toy story, toy story 3, toy story 3 trailer, toy story 3d, toy story 3 release date.
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POPSChesterton and Lewis for Beginners ·Orthodoxy. One of Chesterton's two greatest works, it argues for Christianity through his unfolding discovery that it answered all the questions the world presented him ·St. Thomas Aquinas. ·The Everlasting Man. ·What's Wrong with the World. ·Charles Dickens: A Critical Study. C. S. Lewis: ·Surprised by Joy. Lewis's autobiography ·God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics. A posthumous collection of 48 articles and essays ·The Problem of Pain or Miracles. ·The Screwtape Letters. Lewis's innovative collection of letters from a senior devil to his incompetent nephew ·The Abolition of Man. ·The Four Loves. Lewis's exposition of the four different kinds of love and the challenges we face in loving others. ·Selected Literary Essays.
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POPSTax bill appeals take rising toll on governments This is sure to cuase another wave of downward spirals. If gov'ts have to drop budgets to equate to the present value of homes, when they had orginaly planned, hired, and spent based on previous over extended vlaues - there will be a need to remake their budgets, drop staff, drop others from the budget including jobs. This will in spiral downward. Ouch!
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POPSAre American's Spoiled? Part of what's so perverse -- yet perversely endearing -- about American consumerism is the way we don't allow luxury to preclude necessity. Just because we don't technically need something doesn't mean we can't convince ourselves that we'll die without it. There's a reason the statistic about more American households having TVs than indoor plumbing has been floating around for decades It's because we define luxuries as being in the eye of the beholder. and we hold as self-evident that some of them fall into a category all their own: necessary luxuries. That may be an oxymoron, not to mention evidence that we may be a nation of morons.
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