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POPSTom Reynolds Notre Dame Tom Reynolds Notre Dame: The Linebacker Alumni are actually linebacker alumni from previous Notre Dame teams, spearheaded by Tom Reynolds who lettered in 1967. From the South Bend Tribune: Reynolds, a retired college marketing professor who lettered for the ... tom reynolds notre dame, tom reynolds, notre dame.
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POPSHistory of the Hard Drive The video is kind of stilted in places, but the Twilight Zone style music at the beginning and shots of the engineers "relaxing at home in the evening" are funny.
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POPS Paris Evolving Under the Gaze of Notre Dame’s Gargoyles "Like other medieval gargoyles, those decorating Notre Dame were intended as drainage spouts, with internal passages that carry rainwater from the roof and out through the gargoyles’ mouths. The word gargoyle actually comes from the French gargouille, which originally meant “throat” or “gullet”, and Latin words like gurgulio, from the root gar, “to swallow”, representing the gurgling sound of water." "Of course the monstrous appearance of the gargoyles is no happy coincidence, and many believe they were designed to frighten away evil spirits. Da Vinci Code fanatics and conspiracy theorists will doubtless make some secret symbolic connection between these gargoyles and the minds of medieval masons, and of course such hybrid chimeras have made appearances in popular culture everywhere from The Hunchback of Notre Dame to Ghostbusters. Do they threaten damnation or worse to sinners? Judgment Day awaits in Paris."
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POPS Dance of the Straw-men Consider the rhetorical straw-men that he marshals in speech after speech. Always divisive, always Alinsky-like, always agitating, the masterful community organizer can't help himself. On Health Care (03-05-2009): "...today, there are those who say On Taxes (09-26-2008): "...we all would love to lower taxes on everybody. But here's the problem: If we are giving them to oil companies, then that means that there are those who are not going to be getting them..." On Abortion : (09-01-2008) "...Choice is about how we lead our lives. It’s about our families and about our communities. It’s about our daughters and whether they’re going to have the same opportunities as our sons. There are those who want us to believe otherwise..." I'll be frank. I'm sick of his use of Alinsky's tactics. Always dividing, always creating straw-men, always creating scapegoats. Never once appreciating the wonder of individualism, of liberty, of our founders.
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POPSObama Family Feted in Paris
Millions of us here in the States are very touched and grateful for so much of the world's good will towards the Obamas. Thank you. We're quite pleased with them, ourselves although everyday we are bombarded with corrosive media coverage that finds something to complain about... such a torrent of ill-will the daily dose of politics in other places? Anyhow, President Barack Obama really is a good political leaders. He has integrity, honesty, moral values, vision, is very hard working and on the side of the people -- not much more to ask hope for, really. Although the fact that he's proven himself already successful in many ways is good too. (Although the constant rainstrom of slander might blind us a bit to that, here). This is a Totally New Experience for me, that's 4sure. The Pres gets a gold medal in Cairo and I'm glad. He's cheered on the streets of Paris (and Broadway, etc.) and I'm glad. Veterans at Normandy applaud him and I'm glad. It's a triumph 4 us all. Viva hum
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POPSBon voyage à Paris,Mister Président C'est une joie de recevoir le Président des USA:good trip in Paris for the OBAMA family. J'étais content de voir les américains en 1944 et je n'oublierai jamais ce que je leur doit !Thanks.
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POPS David Frum Analyses Of Obama's Cairo Speech The president said: “I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear. But that same principle must apply to Muslim perceptions of America. Just as Muslims do not fit a crude stereotype, America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire.” The same principle? Shouldn’t an American president feel an attachment to his own country above all? Shouldn’t misrepresentations aimed against that country energize him more? And yet the tone of this speech suggested that if anything, such misrepresentations energize him rather less.
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POPSSr Joan Chittister: Obama at Notre Dame "It was an attempt to move beyond force, beyond the denunciation of those who are just as committed to resolving problems as we are without making outlaws of those for whom the issue cannot wait for long-term answers."
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POPS"Part of the problem, Of Course, Lies in the Imperfections of Man" "Part of the problem, of course" orated The One, "lies in the imperfections of man - our selfishness, our pride, our stubbornness, our acquisitiveness, our insecurities, our egos, all the cruelties large and small that those of us in the Christian tradition understand to be rooted in original sin." And the solution to so much human imperfection? Straightforward: take one eight-month-old baby, pierce its skull with a scalpel, vacuum out its brains until its skull collapses - and, hey, hope! Change we can believe in. Obama unapologetically reiterated his pro-abortion stance. The principal of Notre Shame, as genuine Catholics now call it, Father John I Jenkins, CSC - the most despised priest in the Catholic world - tried his best to put a good face on Obama's visit and his derisory honorary degree. And the solution to so much human imperfection?
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