Posted on 10/01/2010 8:54:31 AM PDT by MplsSteve
They are referring to house cats, not lions..........
Dogs are in the Bible, but not cats.
The reason is, keeping a cat as a pet didn’t become widely popular until Roman times, and they got it from Egypt..........
He is an interesting writer. He has himself in MOney. London Fields was simply depressing to me.
Free Republic.
Oh, books?
Brent Weeks’s “Shadow” trilogy
The Federalist Papers
“I’ve got Reagan’s Diaries going too. God I miss his leadership and clarity.”
Me too. Since the moment he left office.
Orson Scott Card’s “Invasive Procedures.” Riveting!
Thanks. Those are all good especially The Word.
Please Father, send Jesus Christ back SOON!
“Legions of the Lost”, by Jaime Salazar. The true experience of an American in the French Foreign Legion.
A set of Plutarch’s lives (marius sulla pompey crassus caesar cicero) in english. I have another compilation after this one.
recently finished The Warrior’s Way, a biography of Harard Sigurdsson (hardraada), aka harald III of norway, who died at stamford bridge in 1066, and had a most remarkable career, having served in the varangian guard in constantinople as well as spent time in novgorod prior to that.
For fiction, I still am working through reading or re-reading everything poul anderson wrote.
A set of Plutarch’s lives (marius sulla pompey crassus caesar cicero) in english. I have another compilation after this one.
recently finished The Warrior’s Way, a biography of Harard Sigurdsson (hardraada), aka harald III of norway, who died at stamford bridge in 1066, and had a most remarkable career, having served in the varangian guard in constantinople as well as spent time in novgorod prior to that.
For fiction, I still am working through reading or re-reading everything poul anderson wrote.
Thanks for the recommendation. I will read it after I am done with the series.
Picked up a new softbound copy of “The Black Swan” on the say-so of someone I know online (elsewhere than FR). Tonight I found a used (basically immaculate) hardcover for $11. :’) Haven’t actually started reading it though, maybe page three or four.
Need light reading before I sleep. I’m reading The Paris Vendetta by Steve Berry.
Thanks!
Here is the opening paragraph:
The Law
The law perverted! And the police powers of the state perverted along with it! The law, I say, not only turned from its proper purpose but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose! The law become the weapon of every kind of greed! Instead of checking crime, the law itself guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish! If this is true, it is a serious fact, and moral duty requires me to call the attention of my fellow-citizens to it.
He talks about plunder, the illegal type and the legal type (taxes) among other things.
ping
From Plato To NATO: The Idea of the West and Its Opponents - David Gress
My Monthy Issue of First Things Magazine
Getting ready to re read The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
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