You know me – I never do today what I can put off until three weeks from now. Well, a while ago (OK, it was December 11 of last year…) the Shotgun Coach tagged me with this thing, and I figured I might as well get it over with.

Seven things to do before I die
1. Figure out how to stop a meme in it’s tracks
2. Figure out how NOT to feel guilty about stopping a meme in it’s tracks
3. Climb the rest of the world’s seven highest peaks (tough, since the USMC is no longer paying my travel expenses)
4. Learn how to fly
5. Convince TMBWitW that flying is safe
6. Learn Aramaic and Greek, the better to study the Bible
7. Ask forgiveness from everyone I’ve ever wronged, no matter how slightly

Seven things I cannot do
1. Sit down and write a complete, working, short story
2. Or even a long one
3. Get along with my ex-wife
4. Think about my ex-wife without elevating my blood pressure
5. Tolerate incompetence (ignorance is excusable; knowing what’s right and not doing it…)
6. Keep my blogs up-to-date
7. Devote enough time to my wife

Seven things that attract me to (…) my wife, TMBWitW
1. She loves me
2. She respects me
3. She has beautiful brown, full, gorgeous hair
4. Her Christian attitude
5. Her love of animals
6. She bakes the BEST snickerdoodles
7. Her beautiful eyes…

Seven things I say most often
1. Amen
2. I love you (to TMBWitW)
3. Amen!
4. Perfect! Ship it!
5. AMEN!
6. Hey! I’m DRIVING here! (to other drivers and mid-block street crossers)
7. AMEN!!

Seven books (or series) that I love
1. The Bible
2. The Hobbit
3. The Lord of the Rings
4. The Chronicles of Narnia
5. Everything by Douglas Adams
6. King of the Hill (don’t tell my wife)
7. Anything by Louis L’amour

Seven movies I watch over and over again (or would if I had time)
1. The Lord of the Rings (Trilogy)
2. Star Wars (yes, all six. In order. Of release.)
3. Saving Private Ryan
4. Pearl Harbor
5. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
6. Shanghai Noon (Wilson and Chan – no match for current comedy)
7. Anything with Buster Keaton and/or Charlie Chaplin (funniest men ever)

Seven people I want to join in, too:
1. I’m sorry, I can’t think of seven people I want to inflict this on. If you want to fill one out, I will post a link to you here and that way it’s kind of a self-fulfilling list…

There. Now that’s off my list of things to procrastinate…

I am a proud infidel. I believe in Jesus Chirst, the Son of God who died on the cross for my sins.

Go read this, “Habib“, and tell me again and again that islam is a religion of peace?

Your “allah” is not my God, your “mohammed” is nothing but a man who married an underage girl and claimed that his “allah” told him it was all good.

I have seen the cartoons that the muslims are getting their panties in a twist about, and I must say that unless you knew what mohammed looked like, how would you know they were him?

Ya’ll need to pop a chill pill. Depictions of the one you believe in are not blasphemy; worshipping the image of the one you believe in is blasphemy. For example, Roman Catholics have images of Christ on the cross adorning their buildings, their art work, and the chains around their necks. That’s not blasphemy. However, if they were to worship the images adorning their buildings, art work, and the chains around their necks, THAT would be blasphemy.

Do you understand the difference?

I love you all, may God bless you; nevertheless, His will, not mine.

I have an old computer game – called Sid Meier’s Railroad Tycoon (basically a computerized version of the board game) – and I have a problem. It’s on 5 1/4″ floppies. My computer doesn’t have a 5 1/4″ floppy drive. I really, really enjoyed playing this game on my older computer (about three computers ago, then the game got mixed into the stuff that didn’t make it out of the ex-wife’s house, and then one of the girls was kind enough to bring it to me) but I can’t find anyone with the necessary drive to copy the disks to 3.5 floppies.

This is where you, my three loyal readers, come in. If any of you are in the Phoenix area, and you have both 5 1/4″ and 3 1/2″ drives on your computer, drop me a line at carycartter AT gmail DOT com.

Thank you so much in advance.

OK, so I think “Habib” has opted out of the discussion. I am so surprised that he didn’t stick around to defend the indefensible.

Meanwhile, check out some of the entries in the links on the left – and tell them I sent ya.

God’s blessings on you and yours…

I’m still waiting to hear from “Habib” on the civilized debate that he invited me into.

Meanwhile – can anyone tell me why the cartoons depicting Mohammed have enraged so many Muslims so much more than the attack on the World Trade Center? Why they can raise so much worldly concern over headscarves in France and not be concerned about journalists who no longer have a use for headscarves? Why they can riot over the mere mention of the possibility that a Q’uran might have been set down incorrectly and yet show no remorse over the burning of Bibles and killing of Christians in their own country?

Yeah – didn’t think so.

Side point: The Islamist believe that the Q’uran was written by Mohammed, and should therefore be treated with the utmost respect. Christians believe the Bible is the inerrant Word of God, but they also understand that it’s just a book. Also, it is how the words of the Bible are incorporated in your life, not whether you can recite them all by rote, that matters.