http://www.bloggernacle.org Wed, 27 Feb 2008 04:37:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Visit the active bloggernacle at LDSBlogs.org With the Bloggernacle now offering dozens of flourishing group blogs and several comprehensive aggregators, the editors have decided The Bloggernacle Times is no longer filling any particular need for the Mormon blogging community. So it's time to turn out the lights and move on ... http://www.bloggernacle.org/thats-all-folks/ This will likely be my last post over here at BT. I have it on pretty good authority, that change is in the wind. But, I just wanted to say thanks to DMI Dave for inviting me to participate, a bit over a year ago. And, thanks to those of ... http://www.bloggernacle.org/last-call/ Today's Salt Lake Tribune is reporting that BYU has apparently scheduled Dick Cheney to speak at its upcoming commencement on April 26, 2007. http://www.bloggernacle.org/byu-to-invite-dick-cheney-to-speak-at-commencement/ An other week and other Bush administration scandal. This one involves a Mormon though so I figured I'd pass along the news. From the Deseret News: http://www.bloggernacle.org/mormons-and-the-justice-department-scandal/ A March 4 article in the Washington Post reports that married couples with children now occupy less than one if four American households - the lowest ever recorded by the US Census. What is more, it seems to be disproportionately impacting the lower income brackets. http://www.bloggernacle.org/reports-that-american-marriage-is-increasingly-only-for-the-wealthy/ A time to elect, and a time to impeach. So says the town of Middlebury, VT as well as 35 other towns across the state of Vermont. http://www.bloggernacle.org/to-every-thing-there-is-a-season-and-a-time/ Slate's Bruce Reed is reporting on Mitt Romney's Brand Mormon strategy, which includes this quote from a Boston Globe story on a 77-slide PowerPoint put together for Romney's campaign: "Enmity toward France, where Romney did his Mormon mission during college, is a recurring theme of the document." http://www.bloggernacle.org/romney-and-france/ "Four Mormon missionaries are being held hostage in Nigeria's southern oil region, an area plagued by recent unrest, a church spokesman said Tuesday." See the story here. http://www.bloggernacle.org/4-mormon-missionaries-held-hostage-in-nigeria/ The BYU Men's Basketball team won its 20th game last week and this week finds itself firmly in the top 25 in both the AP (#21) and Coaches (#22) polls. Wow. I thought I was being overly optimistic when I predicted 22 wins in the regular season this ... http://www.bloggernacle.org/hello-20-wins-and-hello-top-25/ Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has characterized this nation's excursion into Iraqi nation building as the worst foreign policy mistake in U.S. History: http://www.bloggernacle.org/amen-preach-it-brother-reid/