Monthly Archives: December 2010
Let’s Share a Pint for Auld Lang Syne: Padre Steve Remembers 2010
And surely you’ll buy your pint cup ! and surely I’ll buy mine ! And we’ll take a cup o’ kindness yet, for auld lang syne. Second verse of Auld Lang Syne Happy New Year from Padre Steve In his book A Tale of two Cities Charles … Continue reading
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Padre Steve’s Top 25 Articles of 2010, some Statistics and a Big Thank You to My Readers
Well we are coming to the end of the year here at Padre Steve’s World and as if you didn’t know from my baseball posts I am a fanatic about statistics. Last year I published my “Top 10” in order … Continue reading
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Four of a Kind: The Illustrious Class Aircraft Carriers
HMS Illustrious in 1944 In the mid-1930s the Royal Navy recognized the need to develop and built new Fleet Carriers. The Illustrious Class of four ships was ordered as part of the 1936 Naval Program. The four ships of the … Continue reading
Our Bottom Line is our Honor: Padre Steve Talks About Wall Street
“It was the mystical dogma of Bentham and Adam Smith and the rest, that some of the worst of human passions would turn out to be all for the best. It was the mysterious doctrine that selfishness would do the … Continue reading
Early British Aircraft Carriers: HMS Argus, Furious, Eagle, Courageous, Glorious, Hermes and Ark Royal
The British Royal Navy was the first to grasp the importance of the aircraft carrier and the first to embark on a carrier construction program and establish a Fleet Air Arm. Between the end of the First World War and … Continue reading
A Melancholy Christmas Eve 2010
Ever since I returned from Iraq in 2008 Christmas has become a much more melancholy season for me. I love the Advent and Christmas season where we celebrate the mystery of the Incarnation when God condescended to be born of … Continue reading
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NUTS!
Brigadier General Anthony McAuliffe On December 16th 1944 the German Army launched an assault in the Ardennes Forrest completely surprising the thinly spread American VIII Corps. The German 6th Panzer Army, 5th Panzer Army and 7th Army attacked and advanced … Continue reading
Filed under History, Military, world war two in europe
Padre Steve’s Thoughts on the Proliferation of Bad College Football Bowl Games
Northwest Nowhere State Defeats Middle of Nowhere University 3-0 to Win the Kruger Industrial Smoothing Absolutely Meaningless Bowl in Overtime Minot North Dakota (AP) The Northwest Nowhere State Thunder Pigs defeated the Middle of Nowhere Rabid Foxes in the first … Continue reading
Christian Grinch’s: How the Puritans nearly stole Christmas
There are a lot of people now days in the United States that believe that the Christmas Holiday is under attack and to some extent they are right. It seems that lawsuits are as abundant as public displays of Christian … Continue reading
Filed under christian life, purely humorous, Religion
