So I turn 47 today. Intellectually, emotionally, in my likes and dislikes, I feel younger than I remember my dad being when he was 47 and I was 19.
Of course, Nicole is 19 now and she probably thinks I’m a lot older than I feel. I’ll have to ask her about this when she’s 47 and I’m a hip, young 75.
Welcome to 2009! After a six-month hiatus, we poke our heads out of the new bunker to comment on the war in Gaza, the election, the economy, and prophecy — biblical and false.
Chris Brunner at LewRockwell.com has compiled a list of the nation’s banks sorted by Texas Ratio. The Texas Ratio is a measure of a bank’s credit troubles. Basically, banks with a score over 100 are in danger of imminent collapse; a score over 50 indicates a bank that’s vulnerable.
Our bank’s Texas Ratio is 27. What’s yours?
The Hamas parliament in the Gaza Strip voted in favor of a law allowing courts to mete out sentences in the spirit of Islam, the London-based Arab daily Al Hayat reported Wednesday.
According to the bill, approved in its second reading and awaiting a third reading before the approval of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, as the Palestinian constitution demands, courts will be able to condemn offenders to a plethora of violent punitive measures in line with Sharia Law.
Such punishments include whipping, severing hands, crucifixion and hanging.
The Jerusalem Post, apparently as stunned as the rest of us, reports that it “could not verify the veracity of the Al Hayat report.”
