Category: America

Refuse to do that

Stephen Hawking (and I) reject ‘the God of the gaps’ By Susan Brooks Thislethwaite, May 17, 2011 8:44 AM … The God Stephen Hawking rejects is the God of what is called “intelligent design.” In discussing his argument from his book, The Grand Design, he says he rejects “belief in an omniscient Creator whose hands …

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It may not be possible

Bibi and Barack By Thomas L. Friedman, May 17, 2011 … Reading the headlines from the Middle East these days — Christians and Muslims clashing in Egypt, Syria attempting to crush its democracy rebellion and Palestinians climbing over fences into Israel — you get the sense of a region where the wheels could really start …

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And we better wake up

President’s fine words may not address the Middle East’s real needs By Robert Fisk, Thursday, 19 May 2011 … OK, so here’s what President Barack Obama should say today about the Middle East. We will leave Afghanistan tomorrow. We will leave Iraq tomorrow. We will stop giving unconditional, craven support to Israel. Americans will force …

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WWJD

http://www.clowncrack.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Forgiveness.jpg Monsieur d’Nalgar’s note — following are a few of the more interesting comments at Matthew Paul Turner’s blog Jesus needs new PR, where this image was posted today (May 16, 2011): This is the Jesus I know. Thanks for posting. – Sarah I get this sense that Osama is thinking happy thoughts of puppies in …

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The fundamental issue

A right to return By Jody McIntyre, Monday, 16 May 2011 at 3:29 pm … No amount of time can make an injustice legitimate.  No amount of oppression can make a people forget. Sunday, May 15th 2011 marked the 63rd anniversary of al-Nakba, or the catastrophe, to commemorate the ethnic cleansing of 700,000 Palestinians from …

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Islamophiliac?

  Pamela Geller: American patriot or extremist firebrand? By Robert Chalmers, Sunday, 15 May 2011 … Among the many new things I have learnt from the work of Pamela Geller is that President Obama reputedly used to knock around with a crack whore. “That,” the author, blogger and broadcaster insists, “is not what I said. …

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Rejoice & shout!

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