Archive for May, 2005
Monday, May 30th, 2005
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Monday, May 30th, 2005
Nice Quote
Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness…Sometimes at that moment a wave of light breaks into our darkness, and it is as though a voice were saying: ‘You are accepted’. -Paul Tillich
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Monday, May 30th, 2005
Amazing!
May 30, 2005 No Privacy in Your Cubicle? Try an Electronic Silencer By JOHN MARKOFF GLENDALE, Calif. - Maxwell Smart’s “cone of silence” is finally a reality. Two people in an office here were having a tête-à-tête, but it was impossible for a listener standing nearby to understand what they were saying. The conversation sounded […]
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Monday, May 30th, 2005
Lest We Forget
Hospital In Germany Copes With Heavy Flow Associated Press May 30, 2005 LANDSTUHL, Germany - With its quiet, winding halls, Landstuhl Regional Medical Center at first looks like just another community hospital. But it has become a front line in the Iraq and Afghan wars thousands of miles (kilometers) away. The patients - young soldiers […]
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Monday, May 30th, 2005
I’m Glad That’s Finally Resolved
From “News Of The Weird”: Among the items cleared by senior Israeli rabbis as kosher for Passover this year, according to reports in the Jerusalem Post: (1) the erectile-dysfunction drug Viagra (provided the pill is placed in special gelatin capsules before Passover begins) and (2) dog food and cat food sold by KosherPets of Fort […]
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Monday, May 30th, 2005
This Is Actually Not Funny
There are a lot of Fundamentalist Christians (though by no means all) who feel this way, and are supporting Israel for all the wrong reasons. From “News Of The Weid”: Pastor Joe Van Koevering speaks reverently of the “precious Jewish people,” whom “God loves,” but a principal mission of his Gateway Christian Center in St. […]
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Monday, May 30th, 2005
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Sunday, May 29th, 2005
Quel Dumb!!!
May 29, 2005 Disrespecting Women Soldiers Showing bad timing as well as bad judgment, House Republicans chose the days before this weekend’s patriotic holiday to deny needed health services to women serving the nation in the military. On Tuesday, Republican leaders had the Rules Committee block the House from voting on two modest amendments to […]
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Sunday, May 29th, 2005
Well, Why Not?
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Sunday, May 29th, 2005
Some See ‘Moral Values’ Hijacked by the Right
Liberal Churches Often Have Different Interpretation of What Is Moral - Parishioners at All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena, Calif., tend to hear a familiar Christian message: “Blessed are the poor in spirit.” But that message of helping the poor has not gotten a lot of attention in the public debate over moral values. “I […]