History of Computers

Too kewl:

http://blogs.pcworld.com/techlog/archives/002950.html

mur92000274

mur92000274: "Crapsey, one of the most famous and influential clerics in the Episcopal Chruch, a writer on religion, and an African American,"

Ok, not so fast Kimberly, a descendant of a black man? Don't think the Crapsey clan in Ohio would appreciate the irony in that one! ;-) So this settles the question of whether Adelaid Crapsey was black, and also if all Crapseys are descended from the same...

Health or heresy appendix two

Health or heresy appendix two: "Algernon Sidney Crapsey, Episcopalian, USA – 1906

Crapsey’s troubles began around 1895 regarding his preference for moral and social issues, and church unity, over doctrine. In 1905, as part of a series of lectures on the relationship between the Church and the State, Crapsey made statements which were understood to challenge the doctrines of the virgin birth, the bodily resurrection and the divinity of Jesus. A committee appointed to review his case declined to recommend a trial, but condemned his teaching. Considerable controversy was raised, and the Bishop initiated a presentment in 1906 on two counts of heresy and appointed a court to hear the case. Witnesses called to support the orthodoxy of Crapsey’s views were not allowed to testify, and Crapsey was convicted. On appeal the conviction was upheld. Crapsey resigned and never took another church position. Later in life he described himself as a Pantheistic Humanist."

Well, doesn't that sound like something someone we know would do??? I wondered if this man was an anscestor of mine, and I am going to make a wild leap of faith that he is. :-) (Yes, I know I ended that in a preposition, too bad.)

A Little Government Lesson

"The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else."

"Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star", 149
May 7, 1918

***Impeach George W Bush***