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Afghanistan’s Islamic clergy have warned President Hamid Karzai to stop missionaries from converting people to Christianity, saying the missionaries threaten Islamic Shariah, the Constitution and political stability: “If not prevented, God forbid, catastrophe will emerge, which will not only destabilize the country, but the region and the world.”
The New York Times looks at anti-Mormon bias, wondering why, in our post-denominational age, some are still uncomfortable with Mitt Romney’s religious beliefs. The article contrasts Mormonism’s wholesome public symbols with its secret sacred rituals: “The marriage of these opposites leaves outsiders uncomfortable, wondering what Mormonism really is.”
Tourists aren’t helping the environment, a group of New Zealand researchers say. Carbon emissions from tourists’ air travel to New Zealand equal the country’s total emissions from coal, gas and oil. In other environmental news, some biofuels are worse for the environment than fossil fuels.
It’s Grand Theft Auto for girls! The Coolest Girl in School is the first mobile role playing game geared for a female audience, so the content isn’t surprising: “Experiment with fashion! Experiment with drugs! Experiment with sexuality! Cut class! Spread rumors! And avoid dying of embarrassment - literally!”
California schools are paying teachers bonuses to attract teachers to poor schools, but Walt Gardner says it won’t work. The schools need 700,000 teachers, and the combat pay may attract some teachers but it won’t make them stay: “Working conditions and student characteristics matter far more than salary in attracting and keeping teachers.”
A Baton Rouge business wants to offer fortune telling, but a Livingston Parish ordinance forbids it. The ordinance bans “soothsaying, fortune telling, palm reading, clairvoyance, crystal ball gazing, mind reading, card reading and the like for money or other consideration.” Gryphon’s Nest Gifts Inc. has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the ban as promoting Christianity over paganism.
Oklahoma City major Mick Cornett has challenged his corpulent constituents to shed 1 million pounds in 2008, attempting to mend Oklahoma City’s reputation as one of America’s fattest cities.
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Iranian speedboats threaten US war ships in the straights of Hormuz.
Look for a few bright oil slicks if this happens again.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8U2M3E82&show_article=1
Big 70 car pileup in fog on I-4 in Florida.
http://www.wftv.com/news/15009810/detail.html
A religion that requires laws against leaving (with capital punishment as the penalty) is pretty clearly inherently defective. It is like communist countries vs, the Western democracies - the communists had/have to build walls to keep a flood of their people from leaving while the Western democracies have to build them to keep a flood of other people from coming in.
The school pay bounty will give a small and temporary bump but will not result in longterm ncreases for these schools because pay isn’t the problem in them - frustration is the problem (bad schools are bad due to disinterested parents and poor administration impeding the attempts to teach students). This is a large reason for people working at lower pay in private schools, even those serving “poor” neighborhoods - the positive learning environment generates teacher satisfaction with the work.
Yep, nothing scares Islam more than any other religion. This is why they cut off the heads of infidels and those that leave Islam for any other religion. Without these laws, Islam would become a peaceful religion if a much much smaller one plus most of the wars in the world would instantly stop. Imagine that!
I’m figuring Uncle Sam might have to open up a can of industrial strength whoop-you-know-what if those kooky Khomeiniacs keep up their nuttiness.
This cannot be good for the oil futures markets, can it?
I say we should farm this account out to our buddies in the Mossad.
Let Mordecai do it as they say
Unless and until the so-called new democracies make a constitutional commitmt to genuine 1st Amendment Freedom of Religion then you cannot truly call Iraq or Afghanistan free countries.
Freer perhaps than all of their neighbors but really that isnt saying much, right?
Yeah, those tiny speedboats are such a threat to those massive freighters.
And I’m sure that if Iran had a bunch of huge warships patrolling the Gulf of Mexico or the Pacific just a few miles from the American shore that MIM and Sawgunner would both insist that they had every right to do so and that it’s none of our business and in no way threatens our national security.