Month: October 2012

I am glad to go to the house of the LORD if I can find it.

Posted on By pukeko
This is simply evil. I have no truck with Mohammedanism, and I pray that Muslims hear the gospel and convert. But many people will go to the Mosque for religious festivals. And terrorists are saying that no mosque is safe.
A suicide bomber blew…
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Obonomy is catching.

Posted on By pukeko
I have always been  a somewhat aggressive investor. But over the last couple of years I have been much simpler. My retirement  portfolio is managed (because it is subsidized) but I am cashed out. The money is in the bank... in a fairly safe… Read More

In defence of girliness.

Posted on By pukeko
Alte has been, in various times, an engineer. In Germany, the home of serious engineering.  So she says this from experience.
If anything and I have this from a reliable source — namely myself, it will be a sincere relief to the male engineers…
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Under pressure, work without spectacle

Posted on By pukeko
There is a whole pile of oppression going on for the disciples of Jesus. In Aceh, the Local government is under pressure to shut "illegal" Churches and Buddhist monasteries. Aceh is the part of Indonesia where the Muslim majority is greatest. In the UK, the Catholics held a service Read More

Rebuilding or destruction

Posted on By pukeko
One of the things we know about in the Antipodes is rebuilding. Australia has bushfires -- that can and do engulf towns and suburbs. New Zealand is blessed by a different ecology (the forest in Australia is adapted around fire) and lacks poisonous… Read More

If the wind changes your face will stay like that.

Posted on By pukeko
I guess this post is going to end up being a bit more of the same theme as the last post. The traffic has been quite busy and I want to contrast a couple of comments and posts from various places and then look at what it means. The first example is taken from Dalrock, Read More

Power is not the test.

Posted on By pukeko
When I got home tonight my son asked me how the day was. I indicated that it was not good. I found myself in the situation where injustice had happened despite my clinical recommendation and the consensus of a series of specialists: even though… Read More