Assad's dilemma: Blame Israeli strike on rebels or retaliate and risk open...
A photo released by Syria's state news agency allegedly showing the damage caused by an Israeli strike.Photo by AFPTHIS STORY IS BYZvi Bar'elRELATED TAGSSyriaBashar AssadIsrael USPOther options also...
View ArticleJim DeMint Wants To See Immigration Bill Defeated
By Benjamin BellAlan: Jim DeMint's video clip is worth viewing -http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/05/jim-demint-immigration-reform-will-cost-u-s-trillions/?google_editors_picks=true I hope Jim...
View ArticleUniversity of Tel Aviv Research: Facebook Can Lead To Psychosis
Everything's "swell" on Facebook.(It's YOUR life that's deficient.)by Chris Matyszczyk May 4, 2013 Sometimes, normal humans take a liking to clinical terms and adopt them.You go out on a date, and when...
View ArticleValley Fever: Lethal Effect Of Global Warming In The United States
Fever Hits Thousands in Parched West Farm RegionBy GOSIA WOZNIACKA Associated PressFRESNO, Calif. May 5, 2013 (AP)California and federal public health officials say valley fever, a potentially lethal...
View ArticleHow Johann Sebastian Bach and Miles Davis Made Mr. Tambourine Man A Hit
Roger McGuinn - Hey Mr. Tambourine Man - 4-15-2013 - Rochester, NY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyCjPe6i3S0 ***McGuinn's Wikipedia Pagehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_McGuinn
View ArticleThis American Life: Walking Across America, Talking To People
494: Hit the RoadMAY 3, 2013Source http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/494/hit-the-roadLaunch Audio player http://www.thisamericanlife.org/play_full.php?play=494It's spring, so we're...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia to allow girls to play sport at private schools
Saudi Arabia's first female Olympic athlete Saudi Arabia to allow girls to play sport at private schoolsStudents must adhere to 'decent' dress code and sharia law, but move is seen as thaw in kingdom's...
View ArticleBBC: Why are Buddhist monks attacking Muslims?
Continue reading the main storyIn today's MagazineTweets of the week: Jason Collins, Jamestown and a rasta bananaHow many birds are killed by windows?10 things about BollywoodHow to come back from the...
View ArticlePacifiers cleaned with parents' spit doubly beneficial for baby's immune system
Research reveals that too much cleanliness is pathogenic.If a baby's immune system is not exposed to relatively innocuous antigens, it begins to devour its own "body" resulting in autoimmune...
View ArticleCap Retirement Entitlements For The Rich, Reap A Hundred Billion
By Fred Hiatt, Published: May 5,...
View Article"What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness." Leo Tolstoy
Beauty might coincide with goodness.Or it might not.***"His clothes are dirty but his hands are clean."Lay, Lady, Layhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6ODMKSWzT4***Or maybe not...
View ArticleWalt Disney... And Moses' Insistence On Slaughter
Dear Fred,I don't quite get Laura's post - disneyIt is noteworthy (and overlooked) that for Christianity's first 1950 years, it was the Church - almost exclusively - which made women into...
View ArticleArctic Ocean 'acidifying rapidly'
Continue reading the main storyRelated StoriesCanadian glaciers face 'big losses'Cryosat observes big Arctic ice lossThe 'big melt' at the roof of the world6 May 2013TwitterBy Roger HarrabinEnvironment...
View ArticleAmanda Berry, Michelle Knight and Gina DeJesus rescued (The Guardian)
Amanda Berry and Georgina Dejesus are pictured in this combination photograph in undated handout photos released by the FBI. Photograph: ReutersAlan: Check out the videotape (below) of the black fellow...
View ArticlePope Francis nearly sacked in run-in with Benedict XVI over Prophet Mohammed
Pope Benedict XVI meets the archbishop of Buenos Aires Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio at the Vatican, 13 January 2007 Photo: AFP/GETTYAlan: Pope Francis towers over "God's Rottweiler."...
View ArticlePope washes feet of young Muslim woman prisoner in unprecedented twist on...
Video footage of washing at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/the-pope/9960168/Pope-washes-feet-of-young-Muslim-woman-prisoner-in-unprecedented-twist-on-Maundy-Thursday.htmlPope Francis...
View ArticlePope Francis 'to appoint more women to key Vatican posts'
The Pope's new task force to ring the changes at the Vatican is drawn from around the world Photo: EPABy Tom Kington in Rome21 Apr 2013Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga of Honduras said he was...
View ArticlePope Francis: Protector of Prophet Mohammad and a Friend to Islam?
Alan: I do not share the following view. I publish it to focus the benightedness of nominal Christians.Pope Francis: Protector of Prophet Mohammad and a Friend to Islam? HT: LogansWarning....
View ArticlePope Benedict XVI, 'God's Rottweiler,' Filled Church Reformers With Dread in...
Pope Benedict XVI arrives for his weekly general audience in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican, Jan. 23, 2013.Alan: Thank God he's gone.By STEVEN NELSONFebruary 11, 2013Pope Benedict XVI shocked the...
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