French Victories
A friend sends this along:
> Do this before it gets changed by someone at Google.
> 1. Go to www.google.com [http://www.google.com/]
> 2. Type in: "French military victories" with the quotes.
> 3. Hit "I'm Feeling Lucky" instead
TWE
The Weekend Eudemon
Wowsy and woosy. The stomach flu tore through my family, starting Thursday
night, in the following order: Jack (10), Michael (7), Meg (4), Marie (can't
mention age or she'll throttle me), Me (same concerns), Abbie (11). Alex (12)
and Tess (8 months) have so far escaped.
Porn Tax
> Italians would have to pay a 20 percent tax on pornography according to a
budget
amendment that cleared a first legislative hurdle, news reports said Thursday
[http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/12/08/D8EC6T4O4.html].
I think a porn tax is a good idea. Unfortunately, based on research
Technology over Morality
Very American of these Jewish folks: using technology to get around moral
considerations:
> Machines will perform euthanasia on terminally ill patients in Israel under
legislation devised not to offend Jewish law, which forbids people taking human
life.
Link
[http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/
Good Ol' Murdoch
Throwing the red flag at the secularist bull
[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2005/12/07/newscorp-peppers-headquar_n_11873.html]
:
> The Huffington Post has obtained pictures of nativity scenes spread throughout
Newscorp's New York headquarters. According to a source, Rupert Murdoch has
ordered the scenes to be placed
Smutty Thinking
> A group of atheists at the University of Texas in San Antonio is trying to tempt
college kids into trading their Bibles for pornography.
> It's part of a program called Smut for Smut sponsored by the student
organization called Atheist Agenda.
Link [http://www.msnbc.msn.
Attention Pittsburgh Readers!
The St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology is holding a conference this Friday
and Saturday: Word, Worship, and the Mysteries
[http://www.salvationhistory.com//mission/wordworshipmysteries.cfm]. Plenty of
good speakers.
Fighting Obesity?
Trying to eliminate fat or just transferring all that fat to the lawyers'
wallets?
> In a lawsuit they plan to file in the next few months, Mr. [Stephen] Gardner [of
the Center for Science in the Public Interest] and half a dozen other lawyers,
several of them veterans
Today's Favorite Headline
"Greece Hands Over Flame for Turin Olympics." Given what the Romans called the
"Greek Vice," I thought maybe this was a gay thing.
No Rap for Gangs
> Dutch authorities are playing loud and annoying Christmas carols in public areas
to keep teenage gangs off the streets.
> Charlois Council in Rotterdam have started blasting out the Dutch children's
carols from a barrel organ at the Zuidplein underground station. . . .
> A council spokesman said all