14th Annual Lubbock Lectureship

October 4, 2011 | No comments

 

 

The Four­teen Annual Lub­bock Lec­ture­ship begins this next Sun­day, Octo­ber 9, at the South­side Church of Christ in Lub­bock, Texas. The lec­tures will last through Wednes­day the 12th start­ing each day at 9 am with sev­eral lessons though 9 pm each evening.

Most of the speak­ers are well-​​known within faith­ful churches of Christ. Some you may know who will be there are Tommy Hicks (the lec­ture­ship direc­tor), Lynn Blair, Jim Laws, Tom Wacaster, Robert Tay­lor, and Gar­land Robin­son. “Yours truly” will be speak­ing Sun­day after­noon at 4:00 in a les­son called “He that Is a Hireling.”

The main theme for the lec­tures is “They Are Raven­ing Wolves.” Those who can make it to Lub­bock are encour­aged to attend. Oth­ers are encour­aged to watch and hear the lessons live on the Inter­net via OABS.

The live lessons (and recorded on demand links to the lessons) are avail­able here:

14th Annual Lub­bock Lec­ture­ship.

Anwar Al-Awlaki Killed

September 30, 2011 | No comments

We woke this morn­ing to the news that Anwar al-​​Awlaki, one of the remain­ing lead­ers of Al-​​Qaeda, was killed ear­lier today in Yemen. Al-​​Awaki was the Amer­i­can born Al-​​Qaeda imam behind sev­eral ter­ror­ist attempts in the United States over the last sev­eral years. Details about the attack against him are sketchy, but it appears that he was killed while trav­el­ling by car within norther Yemen near the Saudi border.

Shoe Bomber: Richard Reid

Of course this does not mean that the war with Al-​​Qaeda is over. There will be those who have enough hate to assume his place. But it shows that Amer­ica is will­ing and able to defend itself against those who want to harm inno­cent peo­ple in the name of a per­verted God. All of the lead­ers who have been killed or cap­tured so far preached a doc­trine of hatred teach­ing the poor and igno­rant to sac­ri­fice their lives for a mis­guided cause, but the same lead­ers have all worked hard to hide (some­times behind the skirts of their wives) from cap­ture or pun­ish­ment while liv­ing a life of rel­a­tive ease. These men are not mar­tyrs or heroes. They are only thugs tak­ing advan­tage of gullible fol­low­ers, like the moronic “shoe bomber” pic­tured here.

It is good news how­ever that al-​​Awlaki is dead. He will no longer be able to use his knowl­edge of Amer­ica as tool against Amer­ica. And the more suc­cess­ful we are in tak­ing the lives of our ene­mies, those who aspire to take a vis­i­ble role as an enemy of the U.S. will have to think more than once about it. One should not be deluded; if some­one takes aim at Amer­ica, he makes him­self a tar­get at the same time.

To read about the suc­cess­ful attack on al-​​Awlaki fol­low this link:

U.S.-Born Ter­ror Boss Anwar Al-​​Awlaki Killed | Fox News.

Ron Paul vs. Rick Perry

September 7, 2011 | 1 comment

 

 

Michael War­ren blogs about an adver­tise­ment Ron Paul has out crit­i­ciz­ing Perry’s sup­port for Al Gore when Perry was still a Demo­c­rat, and tout­ing his own fidelity to the Rea­gan rev­o­lu­tion. One prob­lem though: Ron Paul wrote a let­ter resign­ing from the Repub­li­can Party toward the end of the Rea­gan pres­i­dency blam­ing Pres­i­dent Rea­gan for legit­imiz­ing big government.

You can see the adver­tise­ment and read about Perry’s response here:

Paul vs. Perry | The Weekly Standard

Good Question

August 30, 2011 | No comments

Ask your­self this: If unem­ploy­ment were treated by the media today as the top national issue, as it was in 1982 and 1983 when Rea­gan was pres­i­dent, would Obama be dawdling? Not likely. The job­less rate then was only slightly higher than it is now. But in those days, the press focused relent­lessly on the job­less (via Obama’s Enablers | The Weekly Stan­dard).

AutoCode 4.0

August 26, 2011 | No comments

If you write pro­grams for a liv­ing (and even if you only write pro­grams as a hobby), what could be bet­ter than hav­ing a pro­gram that writes pro­grams for you? As pro­gram­ming lan­guages have evolved they have become more and more struc­tured. In many ways that is a good thing, because the struc­ture helps to reduce the num­ber of bugs that were rou­tinely intro­duced into pro­grams as a result of writ­ing “spaghetti code” (if you know what I mean you prob­a­bly learned to pro­gram with those old ver­sions of BASIC). But in other ways it is not such a good thing.

Con­tinue: AutoCode 4.0

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