Some Thoughts on Paris, Friday the Thirteenth

The massacre of over a hundred innocent French and other citizens was horrific, and expected.  The enemy of Western Civilization has been invited in their thousands to Western Europe for decades.  Islam, and Islamists will forever be the enemy of Western Civilization, until they are rooted out and destroyed.  Chance of that happening any time …

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Ornate

This is the sanctuary at St. Joseph's Polish Catholic Church in Camden, New Jersey, during their 120th Anniversary celebration in 2012.  The priest is Polish, and there is a Polish-language Mass daily.  My husband grew up not far from here, and went to this church, and graduated from the parochial high school here (now defunct). …

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Blue State Ballot Blues

I live in Snohomish County, Washington, north of Seattle. Yesterday I received my election ballot in the mail, since we have all-mail voting in our state. We have races for County Council, County Executive, and various other lower-level offices (City Councils, Assessor, Treasurer, Clerk, Sheriff...). The State of Washington also has "top-two" primaries, where the …

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A Trip To Reno-Lake Tahoe

The week after Labor Day, Hubby and I flew to Reno for a meetup with our friends from Ricochet.  Getting there and back wasn't half the fun, but it was interesting.  Since we waited until the figurative "last minute" to book our flights from Seattle, we had to change planes both ways.  For three legs …

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September 11, A Day of Infamy

On September 11, 2001, the most horrible act of Islamic Terrorism was perpetrated against our country. A well-rehearsed team of Islamist Fanatics commandeered commercial jetliners full of innocent civilians, and deliberately flew them into the two towers of the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan, in the city of New York, the Pentagon in Washington, …

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