Month: August 2012

Recommended Music – Tron Legacy Soundtrack

At the end of 2010, Disney released their reboot of the classic movie “Tron”.  As a consumer of most things Sci-Fi, I immediately jumped at the chance to see it.  I expected to walk away from the movie with awe of the stunning lighting effects and satisfaction at seeing a great new Sci-Fi, which I did. What I did not expect was for the soundtrack to have such a profound effect on me. I walked out of the movie and immediately went to buy the album. The Tron Legacy Soundtrack was put together by the British Electro Pop duo,...

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Fisking Facebook #2 – the party of pink slips?

Second in an occasional series, addressing some of the idiocy that pops up from time to time on Facebook … In the words of the great philosopher George Takei, “Oh, my.”  Let’s count the stupid in this one, shall we? Assuming the Romney/Ryan ticket is elected in November, they won’t even take office until 2013, and at the speed Congress runs, they’ll be lucky to have a budget passed by mid-April.  So either R&R are overachievers, and will kill a million jobs in eight months at most, or — as I think we strongly suspect — this is just...

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We Can See Restoration

In my first post I stated that one of the reasons we created Tribble News is we believe that our nation can get be saved. We can turn it around. While I don’t think political action is in vain, I also don’t believe that will be the avenue from which we see redemption. In this light I want to share with you a scripture that has been on my heart. 2 Chronicles 7:14 …if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will...

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Reading List for Election 2012

As we head into the final stretch before the general election, we conservatives have a lot of work to do in order to make the case for overthrowing the incumbent president. We have two crucial missions ahead of us: first, we must make the case that Obama has failed and failed miserably and be methodical in the way we outline his various failures, and second, we have to make a principled case for Constitutional conservatism as the way forward. I have a few very important books that you might want to read and then pass along to those who...

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