Introduction

Recently -- barely noticed amidst the other reactions to the Al Quaeda Arabian Peninsula attack on Paris that killed 17 people and resulted in the destructioln of 3 physically-humanoid animals carrying out the attacks in Paris -- Pope Francis made a very interesting comment, reported here on BBC News:

The pontiff said religions had ( Read more... )

I have heard that something like 20 Israeli soldiers and 500 Palestinians have died in the Gaza War.

This is good news.

It means that, at the very start of the fighting -- when Hamas is at its strongest -- the Israelis are killing the Palestinians at a ratio of 25 to 1.  The fact that some of those 500 Palestinians are civilians does not reduce ( Read more... )

Having formally allied with Hamas, the Palestinian Authority is now responsible for the murder of three Israeli teenagers -- one of whom was also an American.  I doubt that President Obama is going to do anything about it.  After all, it was just a Jew, and I have to assume by now that he feels that Jews should die on general principles ( Read more... )

"And yet every day when I wake up, and I think about young girls in Nigeria or children caught up in the conflict in Syria . . . there are times in which I want to reach out and save those kids," said the Lightworker himself, Barack Hussein Obama, at Steven Spielberg's house earlier this month.  How forutnate we are to have elected such a pretty ( Read more... )

Euphemeticially entitled ...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20070829/wl_time/koreanhostagesfreedatacost

I was particularly struck by this ...

The government insists that faced with the deaths of the remaining captives it had little room to ( Read more... )