[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOEIugOfRZ8[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOEIugOfRZ8 Pope, 84, opts for wheeled platform at Mass By Francis X. Rocca, Monday, October 17, 1:58 PM … VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI used a wheeled platform to move up the main aisle of St. Peter’s Basilica before Mass on Sunday (Oct. 16), in what his spokesman said was a measure to “reduce …
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Oct 17 2011
Emergency Committee For Israel
Occupy protest critics exploit anti-Semitism By MJ Rosenberg, 16 Oct 2011 10:12 … An ugly old tradition is back: Exploiting anti-Semitism to break the backs of popular movements that threaten the power of the wealthiest one per cent of our population. It is being used to undermine the Occupy Wall Street movement, which has conservatives …
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Oct 16 2011
Terror tactics
Catholicism has always been America’s foreign devil By Sam Haselby, Saturday 15 October 2011 09.00 EDT … At the Values Voter Summit in Washington DC last weekend, leading members of the American religious right rallied around the notion that the US is a Christian nation. One speaker, the leader of a Texas megachurch, cited the …
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Oct 15 2011
Today in Little Rock
…wherein your intrepid bloggeur discovered a nefarious plot by the Turkish navy to infiltrate the American homeland (note the submarine with the sharia’s-coming flag and the state capitol in the background). All in all, a beautiful day in America with she-who-must-be-obeyed! [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TId_CQBTz80[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TId_CQBTz80
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Oct 14 2011
Very Serious Experts
The “very scary” Iranian Terror plot By Glenn Greewald, Wednesday, Oct 12, 2011 6:18 AM 13:02:27 CDT … The most difficult challenge in writing about the Iranian Terror Plot unveiled yesterday is to take it seriously enough to analyze it. Iranian Muslims in the Quds Force sending marauding bands of Mexican drug cartel assassins onto …
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Oct 13 2011
Challenged and changed
Why We Must Reclaim The Bible From Fundamentalists By John Shelby Spong, 10/13/11 09:33 AM ET … The contrast between the way the Bible is understood in the academic world and the way it is viewed in our churches is striking. I know because in my life as a priest and a bishop I have …
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Oct 10 2011
The mistake of thinking
The class warfare the rich don’t understand By Heather Digby Parton, 10 Oct 2011 09:43 … “Those who own the country ought to govern it.” – Founding father, John Jay There have been rumblings in the corners of the Tea party movement for some time, but the minute president Obama announced that he was going …
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