http://www.wikio.com/search=ST. THOMAS Wikio - ST. THOMAS http://www.wikio.com/search/ST.+THOMAS?rinfoid=63147484 Jerry Pournelle is apparently convinced that “intelligent design” creationism is unfairly being suppressed. Among a smorgasbord of misunderstandings served up by Jerry, I’m just going to pick on a little one here. I don’t spend a lot of time worrying about intelligent design because I have never had any concern about the impossibility of reconciling something [...] Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:31:56 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/ST.+THOMAS?rinfoid=63147484 2008-07-05T22:31:56Z http://www.wikio.com/search/ST.+THOMAS?rinfoid=63144366 On your way to college? There is plenty of news this summer, from interest rate resets to loan providers exiting the market. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:21:52 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/ST.+THOMAS?rinfoid=63144366 2008-07-05T22:21:52Z http://www.wikio.com/search/ST.+THOMAS?rinfoid=63143324 ST. THOMAS - Starting on Sunday, it will cost $1.10 more to ride the ferry between St. Thomas and St. John, and the number of trips between the islands will be reduced for the low tourism season. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:07:01 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/ST.+THOMAS?rinfoid=63143324 2008-07-05T22:07:01Z http://www.wikio.com/search/ST.+THOMAS?rinfoid=63143322 ST. THOMAS - Gov. John deJongh Jr.'s pen was busy as he approved bills and rezonings, vetoed several expenditures and pledged to find funds for policy changes before traveling to St. John for the July 4th Celebration parade on Friday. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:07:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/ST.+THOMAS?rinfoid=63143322 2008-07-05T22:07:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/ST.+THOMAS?rinfoid=63143320 ST. JOHN - Throngs lined the harbor to compete for a view of the St. John Celebration parade Friday and revelers partied through the streets to show off a mix of caveman motifs and tributes to Native American and African culture. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 22:06:52 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/ST.+THOMAS?rinfoid=63143320 2008-07-05T22:06:52Z http://www.wikio.com/search/ST.+THOMAS?rinfoid=63138095 Chris Cox is the former representative of California's Orange County-based congressional district (successively the 40th, 47th and 48th), the current chairman of the SEC and a native of St. Paul, Minnesota, where he graduated from St. Thomas Academy. He is something of a Republican superstar, though he has recently been the subject of an oddly critical article in the Wall Street Journal. Quin Hillyer comes to Cox's defense in the terrific online Spectator column "Exceptional leadership in difficult times." Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:18:57 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/ST.+THOMAS?rinfoid=63138095 2008-07-05T20:18:57Z http://www.wikio.com/search/ST.+THOMAS?rinfoid=63137774 CHENNAI: Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw’s integrity and sense of humour were recalled by speakers at a condolence meeting held at the Officers Training Academy in St. Thomas Mount on Saturday. They called upon officers, soldiers and ... Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:14:27 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/ST.+THOMAS?rinfoid=63137774 2008-07-05T20:14:27Z http://www.wikio.com/search/ST.+THOMAS?rinfoid=63141881 Sorry I confused everyone on the feast day of St. Thomas the Apostle, better known as "Doubting Thomas". After all the times I've warned you that nuns are often wrong and repeatedly telling you I don't even know what day of the week it is , I should think you would all be ready to do a little fact checking. Ironic. I suppose I had what is now cluckingly referred to as a 'senior moment'. I was writing late on July 3rd, the actual feast day of St. Thomas the Apostle. This site is on East Coast time and I am on West Coast time. And somehow, in my tiny brain that every few years decides I can leave my house at 8pm and drive across town and arrive on time where I am supposed to be at 8pm, I somehow got stuck on every day being the feast day of St. Thomas the Apostle. Don't try to make any sense of it. But if you were celebrating the feast day of St. Thomas, you were still good to go. There are two other St. Thomases who DO have feast days on July 4th. They died within three years of each other, but they were both martyred trying to hide or otherwise abet a priest in hiding. They were both drawn and quartered. Gruesome. It's pretty easy to become confused about whose feast day it is. For one thing, feast days get moved around some to make room on the calendar of saints for new saints. Feast days also rotate because there are so many saints, they all don't fit on the calendar, even though from time to time some saints are booted off due to lack of existence. It's also easy to become confused because there are so many saints with the same name. We just had three St. Thomases in two days. Why, just today we have the wrong St. Philomena. Not that she can be wrong. It is the feast day of St. Philomena. It's just that if I told you today was the feast day of St. Philomena and you thought it was the feast day of St. Philomena , you would be wrong. St. Philomena is still on the calendar of saints. St. Philomena , the one you're thinking of, has been suppressed, which is a nice way of saying, 'booted'. The St. Philomena you're thinking of probably didn't exist, at least not as the girl we all knew and loved, and we know almost nothing about this other St. Philomena . Ironically, we knew lots and lots about the other St. Philomena . It's just that none of it was true . Sorry for all the confusion On a side note, unlike many other people, I am pragmatic about the booting of saints. I don't feel bad for a moment when I find out there has been a saint mishap, like the story of St. Philomena. That's why we have the Congregation for the Causes of Saints now. We didn't have that back in the day. If enough people said you were a saint, by golly, you were in ! That's why the Church now digs up the proposed saint, and checks for true miracles, etc. I do worry a little that the Congregation for the Causes of Saints has become somewhat lax. Just a few years back, one of the rules was that the person had to be dead for at least 50 years before his saintly cause would even be considered. Now Pope John Paul II and Mother Teresa have been 'fast tracked'. And Padre Pio, who is now St. Padre Pio. ZOOM! People think this is just great! I think the 50 rule was a good one. Much more worrisome is the removal of "the Devil's Advocate" the title of the official position given to the person whose job it is to argue that the candidate is not a saint. Bring back the Devil's Advocate, I say, or we're in for a bunch of future St. Philomenas. Where is St. Thomas the Apostle when we need him? So whose feast day is it, today? Take your pick. I'm going with St. Zoe of Rome, who was hung by her hair from a tree while a fire was put under her feet. I know I'm right about this. Unless it isn't really July 5th. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:04:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/ST.+THOMAS?rinfoid=63141881 2008-07-05T20:04:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/ST.+THOMAS?rinfoid=63133765 Britain’s Pathway to Euthanasia - NHS Protocols for Dehydrating Disabled Patients to Death. Are you old? Disabled? British? Taking up a bed in a facility somewhere? You might want to get yourself to another country if you don’t want to be murdered by your government then, because a new law establishes that the sick, elderly and [...] Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:54:47 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/ST.+THOMAS?rinfoid=63133765 2008-07-05T16:54:47Z http://www.wikio.com/search/ST.+THOMAS?rinfoid=63115775 Bob Wood isn't waiting for someone else to restore the dwindling oyster population in the Chesapeake Bay. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 11:00:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/ST.+THOMAS?rinfoid=63115775 2008-07-05T11:00:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/ST.+THOMAS?rinfoid=63098798 (Fred Hutchison) - (Letter to the editor, The Dispatch, July 4, 2008) Columnist George Will claims that when Thomas Jefferson wrote "We hold these truths to be self-evident" he meant, "they have decided to believe it , thereby making it a self-validating tradition." Not so. Jefferson meant no such thing... Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:20:09 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/ST.+THOMAS?rinfoid=63098798 2008-07-05T08:20:09Z http://www.wikio.com/search/ST.+THOMAS?rinfoid=63084385 Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:07:10 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/ST.+THOMAS?rinfoid=63084385 2008-07-05T04:07:10Z http://www.wikio.com/search/ST.+THOMAS?rinfoid=63076895 - On June 28, police arrested Ivan Govia of no fixed address and charged him with unlawful possession of crack cocaine. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:12:01 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/ST.+THOMAS?rinfoid=63076895 2008-07-05T01:12:01Z http://www.wikio.com/search/ST.+THOMAS?rinfoid=63076894 Monday V.I. Delegate to Congress Donna Christensen will announce her candidacy for a seventh term in the U.S. House of Representatives at 10 a.m. at The Balcony in Cruz Bay, St. John. Refreshments will be served. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:12:01 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/ST.+THOMAS?rinfoid=63076894 2008-07-05T01:12:01Z http://www.wikio.com/search/ST.+THOMAS?rinfoid=63076893 St. Croix David Slaven, 42, of Estate St. George, was arrested 11 p.m. Wednesday and charged with aggravated assault and battery. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:11:58 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/ST.+THOMAS?rinfoid=63076893 2008-07-05T01:11:58Z http://www.wikio.com/search/ST.+THOMAS?rinfoid=63076865 Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:11:17 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/ST.+THOMAS?rinfoid=63076865 2008-07-05T01:11:17Z http://www.wikio.com/search/ST.+THOMAS?rinfoid=63076864 For the second year, federal marshals included the Virgin Islands in Operation Falcon - a nationwide roundup of fugitives. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:11:16 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/ST.+THOMAS?rinfoid=63076864 2008-07-05T01:11:16Z http://www.wikio.com/search/ST.+THOMAS?rinfoid=63076862 ST. THOMAS - Two men were wounded Thursday afternoon during an exchange of gunfire on Garden Street, police said. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:11:16 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/ST.+THOMAS?rinfoid=63076862 2008-07-05T01:11:16Z http://www.wikio.com/search/ST.+THOMAS?rinfoid=63076855 ST. JOHN - The conch shell echoed. The drums rolled. And the will it took 160 years ago for enslaved Africans in the territory to win their emancipation was celebrated as Franklin Powell Park was transformed into a live stage for Cultural Day. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:11:12 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/ST.+THOMAS?rinfoid=63076855 2008-07-05T01:11:12Z http://www.wikio.com/search/ST.+THOMAS?rinfoid=63076854 ST. THOMAS - The weather forecast for the holiday weekend calls for some showers and thunderstorms as a tropical wave moves away from the territory today, according to the National Weather Service. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:11:11 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/ST.+THOMAS?rinfoid=63076854 2008-07-05T01:11:11Z