Tag Archives: venezuela
A Stranger in a Strange Land
We don’t use air conditioning in my new place. That’s what happens when two cheap college guys share a room. So even in the air, my new place feels different. It’s not all too hot, but it’s muggy, and the wet air seems to cling to everyone. My neighbors don’t use air conditioning either. I [...]
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guahibo!
That’s the name of the language I was looking for. When I was a wee little lad, I went with my daddy to go see some indios back in the Amazon. On that trip, I slept in an unoccupied ‘jail’ consisting of a single mud-thatched room, rode next to some FARC guerrilleros on a bus [...]
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the story of the bible translation project on this site
I’ve got about 385 chapters of the Bible, sloppily translated, here. This post explains how it got there and why. Related Posts:alexander campbell’s ‘the living oracles’open source bible project: moving toward a more organized methodwanna know why i shy away from copyrighted bible versions? here’s an example.murdoch misunderstands the internet news worldChristian Reconstructionism and the [...]
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job’s messengers
When I see it in print, the series of messengers coming to Job present some interesting difficulties. How accurate were their accounts? What’s up with each claiming to be the only one who escaped — do they not see each other standing there. But for a moment all the questions fade, and I remember one [...]
in the news
The US government is finally allowing some foreigners to participate in cleaning up the oil spill. That’s good, but they should have done that 70 days ago, and 18 countries and organizations organizations have still been rejected. Hopefully soon there’ll be word on why. Venezuela is looting nationalizing 11 oil rigs owned by Americans. Naturally, [...]
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supply, demand, hugo chavez, 160 000 000 pounds of rotting food
Though I’ve not been there in a decade and a half, I love Venezuela, where I lived the first five years of my life. And so second to the US, it is the nation whose politics most inspires my interest. Lately, under the direction of Hugo Chavez, the nation has been embracing a dangerously interventionist [...]
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more on venezuelan currency devaluation
And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine. — Revelation 6:6 Yesterday, I commented on Venezuela’s recent currency devaluation. Now, the Mises Blog has chimed [...]
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venezuelan currency adjustment and what the bible says about it
Nope. I don’t have a specific divinely revealed message for you about Venezuelan currency devaluation. What I have instead are just some under-developed ideas to present, and all of you can make up your own minds about it. And you can also feel free to chime in and help me make up my mind. Related [...]
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Liberalism as Denial — A Response to John Fensel