Advocacy groups in the USA, as in other countries, may not be able to silence this hateful, cowardly...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Vents were added to the rear bonnet in 1972 and resulted in wet engines and starting problems, and t...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Meradinis! Turtle Island! It was a little corner of chaos!
This was the scene the speeding blac...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Captain Harald Biscay rubbed his graying temples, staring deep in thought at the vast star field sho...
CHRISTINA ENGELA RSL has more star-liners than any other company, and covers every commercial route in known space. D...
CHRISTINA ENGELA He’s dying!’ Doctor Cove, one of the ship’s two medical officers told me, looking at his med-s...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Rejecting people for who and what they are will not make you a better, more 'righteous' or more 'mor...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Aerodynamically there isn’t much you can do to enhance your Beetle’s handling. The Porsche style...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Nobody seems to know which came first; egg or chicken – except of course for agents of the Time Sa...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Attention, aboard the shuttle! You are under arrest! Surrender immediately! Come out slowly, in sing...
CHRISTINA ENGELA This was his first trip on the Ossifar Distana, his first real splash in life. Look what it got him....
CHRISTINA ENGELA The small launch bay was littered with debris. A powerful breeze tore at his black silk shirt as Kil...
CHRISTINA ENGELA In my view, any government whose state is perpetually at war, and remains so in spite of initiatives...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Sumone Yiden Smiff was a businessman of note. Was, past tense. Through years of sweat and swearing a...
CHRISTINA ENGELA It's not in the interests of the self-serving government to educate the masses to the point where th...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Imagine if you will:
At the highly secretive, largely independent, inter-dimensional and (inevi...
CHRISTINA ENGELA The only problem that ever really seems to bother empire builders is bureaucracy. Before a new colon...
CHRISTINA ENGELA An idea was forming in his mind. It was only rudimentary, but in the circumstances, it could be call...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Why do I dislike nationalism? First it starts with 'birds of a feather flock together' and it gradua...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Intelligence reports and local folklore together perpetuated tales of his bloody adventures across t...
CHRISTINA ENGELA While both these statements refer to eggs, the main difference between these two rather irking state...
CHRISTINA ENGELA One of the eternal truths of life - People who ask "do you know who I am?" will always, given half a...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Nationalism leads to all sorts of nasty things (even Nazi things) like fascism and war.
CHRISTINA ENGELA Joe!” he groaned, attempting to speak clearly. “Joe! Good ol’ Joe!”
“Captain, you’r...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Same time as every day, Fyl..." she fussed, the rest of the bridge crew seeming to hold their breath...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Now he sat alone; on a disabled starship about fifty years from anywhere on conversion drive – ass...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Timaset didn’t need a ship – especially not a flying museum piece! And as far as he knew, a dodg...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Well… er -”
“Expecting a rescue is beyond hope under the circumstances!” Sam Barthoff, ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA The TSA liked having fresh agents on the job. Fresh agents with a clear mind and steady hand. Time t...
CHRISTINA ENGELA This was true, she knew. Being involved with him gave her the privileged position of knowing him int...
CHRISTINA ENGELA It did occur to him that perhaps he’d gone to the wrong Academy – the guys in the Space Fleet al...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA As a panting Tracy Ferris scrambled into the life-pod, this thought was precisely what was running t...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Imagine, if you will:

A bright yellow star lit the darkness somewhere in deep space, acco...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Villainessa Tittel was a hired killer, an assassin by trade. She had enjoyed the best education and ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Science tells us the more intelligent a person is, the less conservative and more liberal they becom...
CHRISTINA ENGELA It seems to me that wherever religion and politics mix in one body, fascist values - and not 'family...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Hugs are so vital a thing that there should never be so few of them that you can count the ones you'...
CHRISTINA ENGELA South Africa is the only country where an overwhelming majority in complete political control is app...
CHRISTINA ENGELA The only way a society of diverse people can survive without tearing itself apart over differences i...
CHRISTINA ENGELA The best way to piss off your enemies is to out-succeed, out laugh and out live them.
CHRISTINA ENGELA It seems that the price of having freedom is having to consistently fight to keep it.
CHRISTINA ENGELA There are many different forms of family and there is no fact NO 'the' family. The basic building bl...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Tracey hurriedly shut the door behind her to prevent the flames that had been licking hungrily at he...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Slavery of the heart, oh Love - a prisoner of will thou art - proof that love, while blissful, can o...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Freedom is being whole on my own and not needing somebody else to complete me.
CHRISTINA ENGELA When religion ceases to be speculative and become factual and "true", it will become science. Scienc...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Documentary evidence says where there is smoke there is fire, be it holy smoke or otherwise.
CHRISTINA ENGELA Nothing unusual was noted during the voyage, in fact everything ran smoothly until Security alerted ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Wearing a smile while claiming to not judge and condemn people as you equate their nature with no le...
CHRISTINA ENGELA It was a mild winter’s evening in ‘Japp’s Saloon and Speakeasy’, in the northwest corner of ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Secure the exit!” He ordered. “Shut the doors! Don’t let any of them through!”
One of h...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Swearing, d’Angelo entered the elevator. Fortunately, that was also still in order. When he got to...
CHRISTINA ENGELA It’s a general rule – a law of space, as it was a law of the sea in the old days, that ships had...
CHRISTINA ENGELA This is not your standard “How to restore” your VW Beetle book. It’s also not a workshop manua...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Dollying the rest up is your baby. (Btw, did I mention it’s cheap?) Most of the procedures describ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA There's no point in arguing with an idiot - save for exposing their stupidity in their own words.
CHRISTINA ENGELA Turning the other cheek only gets that slapped as well.
CHRISTINA ENGELA Ex ‘Fleet man?”
“He was a full Commander, last I heard, sir.”
“Interesting.” F...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Captain Flane to the bridge!” A voice called over the intercom at his bedside. Flane stirred, pond...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Moments later, Sona Kilroy, heading for the open doorway, stepped over the sergeant’s body. With a...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Being captain of such a vessel was not a stressful job, despite the sheer size of the thing. Everyth...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Ses’ach L’ru!” Came the slightly muffled chorus. This was Ruminarii for ‘Hail the Captain.�...
CHRISTINA ENGELA On any given day, Ossifar Distana carried around 5000 passengers, the actual figure varying slightly...
CHRISTINA ENGELA We got to see a Corsair ship up close – all matt black, no markings, no lights – and practically...
CHRISTINA ENGELA For Commander Ripley Jones, it was becoming more and more troublesome. It had been said that nothing...
CHRISTINA ENGELA What the hell was that?” he asked no-one in particular. “Did they ram us?”
“Uh – nega...
CHRISTINA ENGELA When religious law becomes civil law, does the state not cease being secular, and become theocratic ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Soon it would be his turn. Kaine wondered how he would meet Death. His ship was a mess, in every sen...
CHRISTINA ENGELA As you may follow, they are an extremely hostile species (i.e. there is no word for ‘welcome’ in...
CHRISTINA ENGELA For the gaming fishermen there was the Whatoosie River and its native cocka-snoek, the main game fis...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Any religion which demands death for other people is itself worthy of nothing less than it expects f...
CHRISTINA ENGELA The Doktor was very vond, I mean fond of Vluffy, so he gave him a flame-proof doggie-jacket. It was ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA So rich a client having suffered such a messy death was an unsettling embarrassment to Captain Haral...
CHRISTINA ENGELA He slumped down in the command seat and shut off the irritating alarm. He sighed again. It seemed to...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Where would tourism be without a little luxury and a taste of night life? There were several cities ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA In a nice little house in Atro City there lived a man called Doktor Gleichstein. He was a kind of sc...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Beaming into the thick of a tree without becoming a lifelong tree hugger was a tricky business. A pr...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Death was right on time. He staggered backward on legs of ether. He could see it – a dark shadowy ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA An advanced human rights friendly Constitution is fine and well - but what good is it if it is not p...
CHRISTINA ENGELA If you hate others in the name of God, you should be looking within to see where it stopped being ab...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Be assured, a God who spoke the universe into existence would not need grains of dust to fight holy ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA The idea that all people can and should live together in peace is not really a new one - but yet in ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA It seems to me that those who claim to be 'true' and 'bible believing' Christians and yet spend all ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA The weapon he held in his sweaty grip was one of a small consignment of prototypes received at the l...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Christians believe their God gave us all free will - strange that for over 2000 years, they have tri...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Isn't lying supposed to be a 'sin'? or is it okay to lie when trying to make people you hate look ba...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Some people do everything, some do something, many do nothing - which is bad enough - but the worst ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Advocacy groups in the USA, as in other countries, may not be able to silence this hateful, cowardly...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Usually, people who ask 'do you know who I am?' don't have a clue themselves.
CHRISTINA ENGELA What I know from history is this: Those who do not appreciate their freedom and aren't prepared to p...
CHRISTINA ENGELA As far as I am concerned, bigotry in strawberry or vanilla flavor is still bigotry.
CHRISTINA ENGELA It is quite ironic that those calling the loudest for 'morality' are typically the most immoral of a...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Ironically people will thank a deity for 'letting' them win a race, but blame a 'witch' if they stum...
CHRISTINA ENGELA When you think of the amount of turnover and profit made by most companies in this country - and esp...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Our community deserves leaders who should know what debates and arguments are better conducted out o...
CHRISTINA ENGELA The Tourist Office would put it back up again before somebody noticed and didn’t come to Deanna fo...
CHRISTINA ENGELA The bulkheads were close together, the ceilings low above their helmets. Not much space in there to ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Mykl d’Angelo groaned where he sat slumped in his chair. The irritating noise was unsettling his p...
CHRISTINA ENGELA These mods made significant improvements to the cars – enough so that I changed my mind (another p...
CHRISTINA ENGELA The Imperial Senate, ever conscious of the weight of public opinion resting on the tip of the pencil...
CHRISTINA ENGELA The universe is so vast, so immense, we can never expect to explore it all. It is in effect, not so ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Damage report, sir?” Skotchdopole asked, climbing off his console into his seat.
“To hell w...
CHRISTINA ENGELA The machine demanded access codes. As he entered the first, a faint whispering sound startled him, c...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Before We Begin
Is Your Bug A nice clean original car that looks almost like it
left the s...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Tracey hurriedly shut the door behind her to prevent the flames that had been licking hungrily at he...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Time did exist here, in small amounts (well some of the time) – and there were feint eddies and cu...
CHRISTINA ENGELA But it’s a hundred and twelve years old!” He protested.
“She still works pretty good.” ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA At forty two years, Sona Kilroy stood tall and strapping, a powerful figure. Rising to the rank of A...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Swallowing, he entered the second code. Then there was a sound like a marble dropping on the floor -...
CHRISTINA ENGELA The Doktor was an old man. When he was a kid, his Dad bought him a chemistry set. He never played wi...
CHRISTINA ENGELA The passenger liner Ossifar Distana was one of the most luxurious of its kind in space anywhere. It ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Despite the honor of being remembered as the first colonist to set foot on Deanna, he was also credi...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Apparently some rustlers had been swiping red-horned wildebeest from farms in the San Fedora area an...
CHRISTINA ENGELA The reason for the peculiar name could be found in the whimsical sense of humor of the early colonis...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Ramalama was moving higher in the sky already, the day was getting on. He was going to be late getti...
CHRISTINA ENGELA I don't think it matters so much who we love - what matters is that we love.
CHRISTINA ENGELA Many times we refer to people who express hate or behave in a barbaric, savage 'inhuman' way as 'ani...
CHRISTINA ENGELA There are enough real enemies and threats in the world without having to invent imaginary ones.
CHRISTINA ENGELA How in any way does EQUALITY with other people equate to 'religious persecution'? Does the survival ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA If you 'don't do politics' , trust me - politics will do you.
CHRISTINA ENGELA How very like humans to pervert a message of love and peace to make it into an ideology of war and o...
CHRISTINA ENGELA While EQUALITY means no more 'previously disadvantaged' it also means that there should be no 'curre...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Christ asked people who follow him to be the voice for the voiceless - not to wire their mouths shut...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Those who meet objections to their forcing their religion on others with cries of 'Show respect!' cl...
CHRISTINA ENGELA On screen, sir." Pankow said. That seemed to explain everything. On screen was a distant angular spe...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Being the commander of a Ruminarii war vessel meant that he had risen to the rank by means of assass...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Jonn Deire picked up eight yellowed and dog-eared cards from the pile, grumbling ‘garrn’ under h...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Half-Lieutenant Marsh’k Kluss’ta was not a happy man. Naturally, that didn’t bother him as thi...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Coming from a portion of society that likes to exclude others from it, and separate itself from othe...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Deanna’s prime business was mining Lantillium, which was used to line blaster emitter barrels and ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Some might claim that like the secret of flying is missing the ground, the secret to immortality is ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA The patriarchy longs for the days 'when men were men' and women were oppressed, subservient - and th...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Money is not respect. Neither is power. And if people respect you for your money or your power, it i...
CHRISTINA ENGELA I believe most people are good, even deep down, even if you have to dig a little - although some peo...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Different people think of different versions of 'God' - a loving father or a fearful punishing ghoul...
CHRISTINA ENGELA If I want religion, I know where to look for it - and if for example I don't want it, then why shoul...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Looks like they went crazy and started cacking each other.’ Lisa said to me as we walked through t...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Large Squares, 1965 -Last Beetle
The body is much the same as the previous model, aside from in...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Right now though, there is little that concerns me more than the impending assault on the human righ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA You can pass any law you like to make 'criminals' of those you don't like and then justify it with w...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Interestingly enough, every time I corner a fanatic with scientific facts which they cannot argue or...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Voting for a political party with a cross stuck on it doesn't mean it reflects true Christianity (at...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Beetles were made from 1938, in pre-war Nazi controlled Germany. The few actual civilian cars that w...
CHRISTINA ENGELA The original KDF-wagen as it was called was basic and rudimentary, but essentially the same as the l...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Ironically people will thank a deity for "letting" them win a race, but blame a "witch" if they stum...
CHRISTINA ENGELA As a human rights activist it is concerning to me that those committing atrocities against vulnerabl...
CHRISTINA ENGELA For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the...
CHRISTINA ENGELA When religion ceases to be speculative and becomes factual and "true", it will become science. Scien...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Marsh’k cut the circuit on the rest of the helmsman’s whining and rose to his feet, stretching t...
CHRISTINA ENGELA The Doktor took a fly swatter and hit it hard. ‘Bang!’ it went. But it didn’t go splat! The ro...
CHRISTINA ENGELA But some boys like boys more -
And some girls make other girls hearts soar!
CHRISTINA ENGELA Denying the facts is what enables people to hate and to persecute marginalized and threatened minori...
CHRISTINA ENGELA The last week hadn’t been any better, come to think of it. On Monday they arrived at Gorda, just t...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Aside from all that, she was carrying about a million tons of titanium ore to the heavy industries o...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Although a little noisy at first, in a bizarre twist of fate, electronic music became popular in Fra...
CHRISTINA ENGELA • Scientific and medical studies, research or evidence is either distorted and misrepresented, or ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA It is interesting how - depending on the person in power - our LGBT issues are either right at the t...
CHRISTINA ENGELA I can understand backward patriarchal reasoning coming from a male, but from a woman - and of all pe...
CHRISTINA ENGELA The Exo went pale when he realized what we were dealing with. Well, what he thought we were dealing ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Cautiously, he moved further out, checking the roofs, doors, windows. Nothing. He walked out further...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Something clicked inside Ortez mind, like the bolt of a door latch being released. Man’s first enc...
CHRISTINA ENGELA A tractor beam from the Imperial ship locked onto the shuttle and in seconds it became apparent they...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Imagine, if you will:
Meradinis!
The stuff myths are made of! The Turtle Island of the sta...
CHRISTINA ENGELA In the Black Palace, in the capital city below, the man know as the Patron – Martel the Mighty, ru...
CHRISTINA ENGELA The Hammer was a hard man, a smart man too, and he took pride in always having a plan ‘b’. For t...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Advanced weaponry, victories in battle and space travel do not an advanced species or civilization m...
CHRISTINA ENGELA He looked at the viewscreen and couldn’t believe it. If the other ship were any closer, then it wo...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Rise of Science Denialism

The problem is, in a world where some people (even in the USA, ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Oval Window, 1953 - 1957
In 1953 came the first major changes in Beetle styling. Rear view was ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Those who say 'it's just an animal' are really saying more about themselves than they realize.
CHRISTINA ENGELA Just saying "I love you" can mean the difference between nothing and everything. Some people say it ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA At forty two years, Sona Kilroy stood tall and strapping, a powerful figure. Rising to the rank of A...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Make sure you date someone who always makes you want to dance, with or without music.
CHRISTINA ENGELA It's amazing, the increase in grammatical errors in proportion to the level of hatred in the content...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Is there any good left in the world? and if there is, can you still find it in the places that matte...
CHRISTINA ENGELA They set about making people so unhappy and isolated and when they crawl into a hole and pull it in ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Knowing who you are is more valuable than having ten 'friends' who don't even know who they are, but...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Regardless of what language it is said in, "I love you" stays beautiful, and two hearts beating toge...
CHRISTINA ENGELA If you stick your head in the sand like an ostrich, pretending you don't exist - why get upset when ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Beauty... Is what you are after a lifetime of struggle in the face of hostility, surviving, and stan...
CHRISTINA ENGELA The coining of their new catch-phrase 'homophiliac' displayed in contrast to 'homophobic' was rather...
CHRISTINA ENGELA They tell us variety is the spice of life - and yet diversity terrifies them.
CHRISTINA ENGELA What we see far too little of today is people who identify as Christians, standing up to the hate-mo...
CHRISTINA ENGELA What we see far too little of today is people who identify as Christians, standing up to the hate-mo...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Light-years away, another starship was also experiencing problems, though perhaps not as severe. The...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Going to the extreme of inviting and welcoming people into your church in order to hear you condemn ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA I note the lengths to which Christianist groups are prepared to go to, to influence government and t...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Lt. Denice Barnum at the helm gave a sigh, then replaced her nail file on the control panel, beside ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA While many people define being a man or a woman as being dependent on reproductive capacity, it is w...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Now I don’t know how many people like to drive a Beetle at that kind of speed (on purpose) but I k...
CHRISTINA ENGELA My ship – the Demeter, was a star-liner operated by the Red Star Line. I say ‘was’ because of ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Some kids are black, or brown - some kids are red, and others white.
Kids come in all different...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Slavery of the heart, oh Love - a prisoner of will thou art - proof that love, while blissful, can o...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Mister Jordan?” Came the genteel, restrained voice of a more senior gentleman in the front of the ...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Disagreeing with someone does not mean that they have to be enemies or opponents.
CHRISTINA ENGELA Peace with non-fundamentalists terrifies the fundamentalist because to them, being Christian doesn't...
CHRISTINA ENGELA It is ironic that the only thing separating 'friend' from 'fiend' - is a single letter.
CHRISTINA ENGELA Some children are threatened with loss of privileges such as money, cell phones, cars or even evicti...
CHRISTINA ENGELA The hatred the 'Christian' right wing harbors for the SA Constitution is not htere because of an abs...
CHRISTINA ENGELA