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June 15, 2011
One who fights alone
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- California: The Road Warrior Is Here (8)
- Michael Kinsey While these clerics were in seminary, I was being dragged through the streets by my hair by police, in...
- Michael Kinsey Every person in America has asked himself the simple question. Would I have wanted to be aborted.Only,...
- George Michalopulos I don’t dispute your premise one bit. However, what this movie and those who declaim about...
- George Michalopulos Good points, CQ. To say that crime however is “more isolated” and only due in part to...
- CQ Interestingly VDH and I are about the same age, I’m 3rd generation Californian, with great-grandparents...
- M. Stankovich What you need to do is rent the 1998 film short A Day Without a Mexican which lead to the full...
- Yo Competing visions of the common good: Rethinking help for the poor. Videos, Washington, D.C....
- Diversity is Strength! (53)
- George Michalopulos PS, you’re right about Satan. His agents-in-place are the secularists. Muslims are merely...
- George Michalopulos But they’re doing it anyway, aren’t they Ivan? I mean driving out native Christians....
- George Michalopulos It was pathetic Deacon Chris. There was a time in which John Bull was so self-confident that...
- George Michalopulos I’m beginning to doubt Antonia’s basic premise. Maybe certain Chechen clans or...
- George Michalopulos I’ve criticized some Israeli policies on my blog so I don’t have to prove my bona...
- George Michalopulos Good point. My point however is that a nation should pick and choose who it lets in based on its...
- Rus Antonia, what makes you think that way? It is well known that Chechen tribes begin to covert to Islam around VII...
- Basil Michael, I’m sure there would be some Muslims who would do so, although they would be despised by their...
- Basil By that logic, George, you are a Greek and not American! The man’s passport, if he had one, would be...
- Basil Their “piece of dirt” is the whole earth, Brigel. Read about Maududi and Qutb, the intellectual...
- Michael Bauman Thank you, Pere. And you are correct concerning the Copts. Whatever the Christological differences...
- Michael Bauman Brigel, comparing the Islamic-Jewish conflict with the American Revolution is historically inaccurate....
- Michael Bauman Brigel, I’d like to know what evidence you have that Muslim’s don’t hate us...
- Nate Trost I sense a certain lack of consistency here. You seem to feel entitled to brand subsets of Muslims as wild...
- Patrick Henry Reardon Brigel writes: “Muslims don’t hate us. Give them back their piece of dirt, and this whole...
- lexcaritas Antonia, do you know why the Chechens converted? A matter of free choice . . . or . . . just wondering as...
- Pere LaChaise Indeed, He is risen! O death, where is thy sting? Michael, your comment helps clear the...
- Pere LaChaise No, it doesn’t make them necessarily Muslim as Christians were typically impressed into the...
- George Michalopulos P.S. most people in Latin America are extremely light-complected. Their majority stock is...
- George Michalopulos On the contrary. I for one don’t believe tha Muslims, like all human beings, do NOT have...
- Pere LaChaise Mr. Michalopoulos, you should watch the film “Children of Men” based on the PD James novel,...
- George Michalopulos If that’s true, then I stand corrected. However I would like to see some confirmation from...
- nit picker Very true. I am glad you make that distinction. It is an important one.
- Antonia Correction: Chechens were Orthodox Christian; however, the tribes converted to Islam during the 17th-19th...
- Nate Trost It is rather hard to reconcile these two statements of yours: They are a barbarous and savage people of no...
- It’s Called “Voting with Your Feet” (84)
- historian Seraphim, Have you ever read Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address? Here’s one link of many to it:...
- Tim R Mortiss It must have come to you in a vision! And conflicting Orthodox jurisdictions would have...
- Tim R. Mortiss I’ll make just a few more comments, then leave the subject, which is so fraught and which is a...
- Michael Bauman If the union had divided, it is likely that the European powers would have had a great deal more...
- Michael Bauman Seraphim, et.al. I urge you to make a pilgramage to Ash Grove, MO, worship in the Orthodox Church...
- Michael Bauman The first state in which the idea of secession was seriously discussed what Massachusetts.
- Seraphim98 Historian, since there is no reply button under your comment I have to do it this way: The proper manner...
- George Michalopulos I won’t blame Lincoln because had he lived the awful nightmare of Reconstruction would...
- George Michalopulos Thank you Lex. People forget that the Constitution and the Union that grew out of it, was created...
- George Michalopulos CQ, for what it’s worth, I think that California is the most beautiful state in the Union....
- George Michalopulos Seraphim, thank you for this lovely response. Robert Penn Warren was commissioned to write an...
- historian The proper manner for one state to “unjoin” the United States is via an amendment to the...
- Seraphim98 No…that was largely the fault of the radical republicans who sought to completely crush us in every way...
- Seraphim98 A couple of points: But it’s not my country, and I don’t get misty-eyed about it. But that is mainly...
- Seraphim98 Have you thought out the ramifications of this republic truly divided? Those ramifications are not at...
- CQ George, I haven’t claimed things “are so rosy,” I’ve pointed out errors of fact. We...
- lexcaritas But Ivan the Union was entered into voluntarily by ratification by the constituting states and their...
- George Michalopulos You have every reason to love your state because of its staggering beauty. A minor quibble if I...
- Tim R. Mortiss I love my State, Washington, where I was born, where I can go from saltwater to high mountains in an...
- Ivan Vasiliev Have you thought out the ramifications of this republic truly divided? Imagine it! A stew of two or...
- Tim R. Mortiss I rest my case. It was too bad about 100 years of Jim Crow, too, but that was probably Abe...
- Nate Trost That’s one out of six law school graduates. The actual numbers for general BS grads is probably...
- geo michalopulos CQ, if things are so rosy in the Golden State, then why is one out of every six college graduates...
- Seraphim98 My only self-imposed rule for chats with the unrecontructed is that only primary sources may be cited,...
- Tim R. Mortiss Well, from the glories of Christian emperors to those of the Confederacy we have enough grist for a...
- Director of St Luke’s Resigns (174)
- Archpriest John W. Morris To Stan Poulous. I could not disagree with you more. When the Greeks broke Communion with...
- M. Stankovich Fr. Andrei, Indeed He is Risen! I was not ignoring you, but I am reluctant to share personal...
- Tim R. Mortiss I suddenly wondered: do one’s views of Muskovy have any relation to what side of the Mason-Dixon...
- Michael Bauman Fr. John, I totally agree with your last statement that Met. Philip will go down in history as one of...
- Stan Poulos Fr. John, I appreciate your love for + Philip. He has done much good and has done a nice job of reaching...
- George Michalopulos Stan, I see that you continue to evade my very simple questions. Specifically, how many...
- Stan Poulos George, Now you reveal your true colors. You too are a Russophile and mimic + Jonah himself. The ROC is...
- George Michalopulos Stan, if I hear one more time how the ROC is the “most corrupt” Orthodox Church,...
- Michael Bauman Stan on one hand you claim we Antiochians are under the thumb of “foreign” bishops and on...
- Archpriest John W. Morris I have stopped making many comments on this blog because I am tired of reading about all...
- H pylori One cause of ulcers is Helicobacter pylori http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H elicobacter_pylori...
- sue Stan, Your editorial merely indicts the Synod that elected Met. Jonah. While I do not agree with your assessment,...
- sue Carl, My sundial is still running! Do you know these men personally?
- Stan Poulos George, You can have Moscow. The ROC is probably the most corrupt Orthodox Church in the world. This is...
- George Michalopulos Stan, I very much appreciate your critique and am in agreement with parts of it. But how can you...
- Stan Poulos George & Fr. Webster, Autonomy means nothing. With + Philip, he has been operating autonomously since...
- Archpriest Alexander F. C. Webster, PhD Re the idiotic comment: “I seriously believe + Jonah was psychlogically...
- George Michalopulos First, I do agree with you about foreign bishops controlling American territory in the ham-fisted...
- Archpriest Andrei Alexiev Christ is Risen! George, My current spiritual father,Fr.Stavros,is a Greek American,who...
- Stan Poulos Seraphim98, …Because “foreign bishops have no authority outside their own territory”...
- Archpriest Andrei Alexiev Christ is Risen! Dr.Stankovich, Thank you for the recommedations.I know Charlie LeDuff from...
- colette Wow. This is really carefully and respectfully written. You hit the complicated point we all observed but...
- Serpahim98 It puzzles me why people think the OCA surrendering it’s tomos voluntarily as part of an effort to...
- nit picker M. Stankovich, Thank you for taking the time to respond to my comments. I looked again at the original...
- Stinkbomb II (131)
- Yo Dear Jeffery, Thanks for the link. I see what you mean about the emphasis being on fishing. It seems that the...
- Jeffery Erickson Yo, Here is the article and picture the Chancellor fishing. He was in Alaska for the graduation...
- To Kiril Kirile, You over credentialed yourself. Made you seem momentarily like you might have a narcissistic...
- Yo Dear Jeffrey, I went to the OCA website and could not find the article you were talking about. Could you provide...
- Amazed in the Midwest Maybe some of you saw the OCA website “report” on the Lesser Synod’s meeting...
- M. Stankovich No, you simple ass. It figures that of anybody, you would miss me at 3:11. How many times have I said,...
- James I feel for Carl, trying all these many months to justify the indefensible actions of the OCA against +Jonah....
- Jeffery Dear George and “Nit-picker”, Christ is Risen! Those ideas crossed my mind too but another also...
- Heracleides Isn’t that Stankovich at the 1:20 minute mark?
- George Michalopulos Dear-to-Christ Kyrill, you are always welcome to post on this blog.
- George Michalopulos Can you say “cult of personality”?
- George Michalopulos Dr Stankovich, you always write reasonably and lucidly and for this I thank you. Permit me a...
- M. Stankovich ChristineFevronia, I do not disagree with you other than to say I entered this discussion for...
- ChristineFevronia Your prayers must be working, because I have had much, much peace in my heart since learning that a...
- nit picker Hi Jeffery- Maybe Fr. Jillions wants us all to be insanely jealous that he got to go fishing in Alaska? Or...
- Kentigern Siewers Christ is Risen! Truly He is Risen! Now the Chancellor’s friend and defender offers his...
- Carl Kraeff George–I wanted to say goodbye to you too. I thank you for allowing me to post on your blog. In...
- Jeffery Erickson Hello. I just found your website and I hope I am not writing something that has already been covered...
- colette replying to Nit picker May 23, I thought that was you.
- Kentigern Siewers Christ is Risen! Truly He is Risen! Certainly the Chancellor’s friend and defender seems like...
- nit picker colette wrote: Yeah . . don’t mean to, but that is all I can remember. . .. Who are you? I could tell you,...
- nit picker Dr. Stankovich, Tell me you’re kidding me. Seriously. Tell me you were drinking Red Bull at 1:19 am...
- Disgusted With it Of course it was “skipped over”. People with such selective moral outrage can never be...
- Michael Bauman It has always been obvious to me that the issues and problems that Met. Jonah created was challenging...
- M. Stankovich nit picker, Tell me you’re kidding me. Seriously. Tell me you were drinking Red Bull at 1:19 am...
- Even Jon Stewart Gets It (42)
- T.R. Taxation is theft.
- Michael Bauman Fr. Pat: Lipstick on a pig?
- Patrick Henry Reardon With a fine rhetorical flourish, Dan asks, “Some IRS agents go rouge and it’s a...
- Bill Christensen He is a comedian. It is hilarious. Don’t you get it. Easy does it. It. This too shall pass.
- geo michalopulos Nate, you have no idea. The Conservatives have been hated vituperatively since Goldwater 64. I know,...
- Michael Bauman The fact is that as vulgar as modern politics is, it is more civilized than at many times in the past....
- Gregg Gerasimon Thank you for posting this. The more I watch these Metropolitan Jonah talks, the more I believe that...
- Nate Trost You presented a proposition that 98% of vulgar hateful political speech comes from “the Left”,...
- Guy Westover WONDERFUL! What else can one say? Oh, yeah. Pray for them and offer them some financial support....
- George Michalopulos OK, lemme get this straight, even with Google alone Palin-hatred eclipses Hillary-hatred by 2:1....
- Fr. Hans Jacobse It’s always nice to read comments from someone who realizes that history did not begin on the...
- Nate Trost You sound amusingly like a self-righteously offended character from the New Testament at the moment....
- Nate Trost Google search: “Hilary Clinton (extremely vulgar obscenity)”: About 319,000 results Google...
- L http://www.mediaite.com/tv/pre sident-obama%E2%80%99s-use-of- teabagger-term-provokes-media- debate/
- George Michalopulos Thank you for pointing that out Ivan. I never knew what a “Tea Bagger” was until last...
- George Michalopulos Good point. When all is said and done however the Left uses more vulgarity and hatred than the...
- CQ Tornados struck hard in Oklahoma. People died, homes and entire communities destroyed. Lord have mercy!
- wow! suggests http://zoeforlifeonline.org/
- Lola J. Lee Beno Just out of curiosity, how would you label women who are not in monogamously-committed...
- Tim R. Mortiss A worthy point to be made now and then, though it is no longer much understood, alas. There’s...
- Archpriest John W. Morris Actually, the constitution does exempt religious institutions from taxation. In the case of...
- Michael Kinsey Only sodomites, and gommorhites demand submissiveness from others.
- Michael Kinsey All well, arguements over whose better, tweedledumb or tweedledumber. I will mention a wieghter matter...
- one Leftists are extremely vulgar and not to be confused with liberals—let’s identify them correctly. A...
- Nate Trost Considering you personally used the term “the slut vote” in an essay, and on another occasion...
- May 20, 2013 – Tornadoes in Oklahoma (9)
- George Michalopulos Lord be praised that you and yours are safe.
- Michael Bauman If the experience of the clean up there is anything like what happen when a tornado hit a suburb of...
- Francis Frost Dear Mr. Michaelopulos: As far as I know there was no damage to any of our Orthodox churches here in...
- Michael Bauman Mr Kinsey, I pray that someday you will be able to put Fr. Herman down. You’ve been carrying him...
- Sean Richardson Have we heard any news of the Orthodox faithful and the Orthodox Churches in the area so devastated?...
- Michael Bauman Most of these storms are quite localized and you have time to get to safety. This one blew up much...
- Gail Sheppard Praying. . .
- Michael Kinsey May the Christ grant you the grace required to please HIm in crisis. There was another empty big ill...
- Christ is Risen! (18)
- Lola J. Lee Beno Well, now I can say that I now personally know someone who won a Typeface Design award! I’m...
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Piano?
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yes, John and Paul especially did a lot of their composing while playing “at” the piano (none of the Beatles could actually read music, hence my use of the preposition “at”).
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“At?” As in “Seated one day at the organ, I was idle and ill at ease,
And my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys.
I knew not what I was playing, or what i was dreaming then,..”
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Another Americana, remember the flims based upon christian novels like Quo Vadis and the Robe and Ben Hur. What is interesting is Jay Robinson Caligula of the Robe later on became a christian. Those movies were great As Caligula shouts go to your Kingdom to Marcellius the Centurion and Diana.
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Well, George what is your favorite movie among the old christian epic films of the 1950′s, Quo Vadis, The Robe or Ben Hur.
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Ben hur!
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