Archive for: December 2005

I got this DVD for Christmas, so I thought I’d review it:

The Plot: There’s a new dark figure of justice in Gotham City. The Phantasm is killing old Gotham Crime Lords one …

We’ll find out this coming year. Brandi Swindell in Thrive Magazine talks about her New Years Resolutions:

— I’m going to make the commitment to work towards getting Councilman Alan Shealy to say “one nation, under God” during the pledge …

Courtesy of Pam’s House Blend, we’ve got a story of a Gay weblog with a challenge. They want an ex-gay to go on the 700 club awith them and take a lie detector test where there will be only …

Gary at The Secret Life of Gary is hosting the 102nd Christian Carnival, including a post from yours truly.

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I said I’d write about legalism. Prompted by a post on Tidbits and Treasures on the topic.

To begin with, I must make a confession. My life has been and spiritual walk have been marred by legalism. I confess to …

One thing stood out in Kathleen Parker’s rant. (See prior post)
was her complaint about bloggers promoting one another.

It deserves some discussion, but Blogging as it exists today is a non-competitive world. I got around 900 hits from …

A syndicated columnist today lashed out at blogs in her latest column provoking a backlash in the growing medium.

That is what’s called a summary lead. My ability to write one proves I’m a journalist and thus worthy to have …

My husband spends eight, nine hours at work everyday only to come home most nights to work until bedtime on his writing, asking at some point for me to bring his dinner to the computer. Somedays, it seems like I …

Tonight, I talk about the need for Christian and Conservative people to get involved in the arts. Click here to listen.

Tomorrow-er-tonight, I’ll endeavor to start a series on legalism and examine that a bit more closely. Remember, Open Trackbacks …

All Things Beautiful has challenged the blogosphere to come up with a list of the Ten Worst Americans. Captain’s Quarters is welcoming your comments on the issue.

I’m up to the challenge. I thought up the top 8 on my own and after a little more research, came up with the other two.

To understand my criteria for these choices, you need to understand this quote:

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.-attributed to Josef Stalin

You could fill a top ten list with a rogue’s gallery of murderers and traitors, yet their damage pails in comparison to that done by ennobled political leaders. It is my goal to focus on those who have done or attempted to do the worst damage to this country. That’s not to say Serial Killers don’t have a place on this list, they do. But it has to be kept in perspective. This isn’t a list of the Most Evil Americans, but rather the worst Americans.

Certainly, there’ve been some bad dudes in American History.

Some men were more anti-heroes than Villains. Think Andrew Jackson, George Wallace (who in his latter years repented of his segregationist ways in grand fashion), John Brown, and Michael Moore. Think of the three great compromisers: Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and John Calhoun. They made lives harder for those trying to protect runaway slaves, but also ended up averting Civil War for 10 years and guaranteeing a Northern victory. Most guys in the Civil War have to follow under the anti-hero category.

Some people are not worth a spot on the list. If I was making this list as a teenager, I’d have placed Bill Clinton on the list. However, history will recall him as an amoral twit.

Dishonorable Mentions

Senator Robert Byrd (D-Wv.) was a KKK recruiter, but gets a dishonorable mention for another reason, spending our nation into penury while fighting for his own self-aggrandizement in the State of West Virginia. Also, unlike other Democrats who argued in the Clinton Impeachment scandal that Clinton hadn’t committed high crimes and misdemeanors, Byrd concluded that Clinton had, but would vote to retain him in office anyway because he didn’t want to vote to remove him. Such is the stand of the Senate’s guardian of our Constitution.

Bull Connor was certainly a bad man and a racist, who used vicious tactics to suppress Civil Rights demonstrations, but his power and ability was more localized. There were also the murderers of Civil Rights leaders who are of prominence.

There was America’s most infamous environmental terrorist, the Unabomber. There’s those Americans who’ve been convicted of aiding our enemies in the War on Terror, such as John Walker Lindh. However, to paraphrase the Highlander, there can be only 10.

Below is my list: