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binky — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:59:38 +0000

Religious News

~ LATIN MASS: the subject of spiteful scorn from Sandalistas; “I can’t help but wonder if the elderly be-Birkenstocked Easter People are going to put up the same kind of fight to retain the fruits of their revolution” …. (telegraph, anglocath.blog)

~ SOBERING THOUGHTS– The end is near for the Anglican Communion; The Bishop of London writes the rector of St. Bartholomew’s …. (soberingthoughts.blog, transfigurations.blog)

~ A FEW WEEKS AGO, “I wrote about Britain’s running competition with Canada to become the country furthest gone in the Culture of Death Sweepstakes. I got a call last week from someone who told me about a mandate from the Quebec government to force all schools, including “Catholic” schools and homeschoolers, to start using a government-approved “religion” curriculum that teaches that no religions are true and that they are all just human ideas of equal worth… or something” …. (anglocath.blog)

~ QUESTIONS ON Candles in Eastern Christianity …. (holywhapping.blog)

~ ICON EXHIBIT TO OPEN IN FALL– Collection spans over 400 years of Christian iconography …. (anglicanplanet.net)

~ PURPLE SPINE! Bishop Nazir-Ali: “We Must Recover our Christian Nerve Before our Judeo-Christian Heritage is Lost”; UK: Bishop Nazir-Ali Boycotting Archdimmi Williams, Quietly Building his Power Base Inside CoE …. (Wz)

~ GHOST OF A FLEA– Letter to the Ephebians: Terry Pratchett creates gods all the time. He now suspects one might exist …. (ghostofaflea.com)

~ THOSE PESKY COMMANDMENTS– Canadian Doctors At Odds With Jewish Family Over Continuing Life Support …. (religionclause.blog)

~ FOOD FOR THOUGHT, from the Anglicans …. (nrotc)

~ A PYRRHIC VOCTORY for Vancouver churches: “Shotgun readers may remember that a few months ago, I posted on the efforts of Vancouver’s Tenth Avenue Alliance Church to protect its outreaches to the poor from Vancouver city bureaucrats who were not convinced that it was part of the role of a church (or any similar religious body) to minister to the needy” …. (shotgun)

~ BEAR DIARIES: “Northrop Frye … reading not sleeping” …. (sleepyoldbear)

~ AL MOHLER: In Error and Apostate — The Anglican Division Looms …. (transfigurations.blog)

~ FIRST THINGS– The Incredible Hulk, The Philokalia, and Anger Management …. (firstthings.com)

~ REMAKING ANGLICANISM: “In Jerusalem, conservatives stage an ecclesiastical coup” …. (nro)

~ ACADEMIC GIANT Revd Prof Henry Chadwick, RIP …. (anglicancontinuum.blog)

~ CELESTIAL TEAPOTS, Flying Spaghetti Monsters, and Other Silly Atheist Arguments …. (evangelicaloutpost)

~ BLOVIATOR– “Appetizer for Solemnity of the Sacred Heart” …. (bovinabloviator.blog)

~ KILL! MISERY! RUIN! First Things: The War on Abstinence …. (firstthings)

~ THE BRIDES WORE… Eye witness account of Gene Robinson’s “wedding” …. (prayersthatmatter.blog, AM)

~ KENNETH @ Time Immortal: “I am a Eucharistic person” …. (timeimmortal.net)

~ THE HUMAN BLACK HOLE– “The inimitable Chris Johnson writes of this gooey devotional to Eugene V. Robinson in GQ” …. (markshea.blog)

~ AFRICAN HITLER Mugabe’s Anti-Christian Persecution …. (frontpagemag)

~ THE VATICAN says it will not allow an upcoming movie to film on location because the work–Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code prequel, Angels and Demons–is “an offence against God.” …. (worldontheweb)

~ JOHN THAVIS on the Traditional Anglican Communion …. (deborahgyapong.blog)

~ SOPHISTICATE Sniffs at Pherlosophy …. (edwardmichaelgeorge.blog)

“The Wanderer”

~ DEBORAH GYAPONG– Feel a little discouraged? Need to know God is in control? Read this
Some insight into how it feels to find out someone’s praying for you …. (dg)

~ THEY GET IT! “Shouldn’t the United Church Just Throw in the Towel?” is the opening event of a four-day Church-sponsored conference that will look at the future of the country’s largest Protestant denomination …. (edwardmichaelgeorge.blog)

~ ED DRISCOLL– “The ultimate critical virtue, agree many academics, is transgression - social, sexual and political. Theorists such as Judith Butler and Michel Foucault have contributed to a left-wing discourse in which the celebration of deviance has taken over from serious attempts to describe or improve the lot of the oppressed” …. (eddriscoll.com)

~ SLEEPY OLD BEAR– “Hard to beat this for comedy — starring … the Rev Gretta Vosper” …. (sleepyoldbear)

~ EURO ARISTOCRAT, Princess Alessandra Borghese, talks to Peter Stanford about her well-documented return to Catholicism …. (telegraph)

~ PEOPLE’S CUBE– “The New Age Annoints a New Opiate” …. (thepeoplescube)

~ ACTON University 2008 Audio Classes …. (Acton)

~ MARY EBERSTADT: Elizabeth Anscombe hurt the atheist cause. “Loser Letters” …. (nationalreview.com)

~ ABOMINATION: C of E Priests ‘Marry’, By Jonathan Wynne-Jones, Religious Affairs …. (anglicancontinuum.blog)

~ GIRL IN BLUE– “”We” should acknowledge the native issues, but put an end to our unnecessary guilt. To be fair, this was the age of ‘improvement’, and when southerners looked at native communites, they saw disease, lack of education, disconnection with the wider world, and no chance to improve themselves and benefit from Canada” …. (the-girl-in-blue.blog)

~ PUZZLED OVER Atonement lite.. “A post-modern author can’t cope with remorse and expiation, as the novel Atonement and the subsequent film show all so clearly” …. (mercatornet.com)

~ THE PUZZLING FASHIONS OF PENITENCE– “I’ll say this for Stephen Harper: Canada’s Prime Minister didn’t apologize this week to Canada’s aboriginal people in a moral vacuum. Ahistoric apologies have been all the rage in the last twenty years” …. (georgejonas.ca)

~ SIGCARL&FRED– ‘Archbishop, you’ve committed treason’ …. (sigmundcarlandalfred)

~ SERGE’S BLOG ON Seeker-sensitive churches.. “Commonly called pandering and dumbing down” …. (sergesblog.blog)

~ HOLY WHAPSTERS– What does “Parish” mean, anyway? …. (holywhapping.blog)

~ JERUSALEM– “Mother Nature kicks ass: Israeli researchers who grew a sapling from a date seed found at the ancient fortress of Masada said on Thursday that the seed was about 2,000 years old and may help restore a species of biblical trees” …. (hallsofmacadamia.blog)

~ BEN STEYN’S EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed - Opens in Canada June 27 …. (noapologies.ca)

~ PITY THE HATE-CHURCH: WaPo Feels Pain of ‘Marginalized and Vilified’ Church of Rev. Wright …. (newsbusters.org)

~ RELIGIOUS PEOPLE NEED NOT APPLY! “Senate Democrats are working overtime to exclude orthodox believers from the Surgeon General’s office” …. (spectator.org)

~ PUTTING THE BOOTS to the Liturgical Terrorists …. (socon.ca)

~ ANGELUS HOMILY: Love, not holocausts …. (speroforum)

~ ON MARRIAGE: Why Hi-Jack a Christian Institution? …. (scriptoriumdaily)

~ PREZ BUSH MEETS WITH Pope Benedict, Rumors he may Convert to Catholicism …. (weaselzippers.net)

~ MILITANT ATHEISM At U of Virginia …. (stoptheaclu)

~ WHAT PART OF “No. Shut Up. Go Away.” isn’t clear? “The Vatican has banned the makers of Angels & Demons, the latest book from Da Vinci Code bestseller Dan Brown to be turned into a movie, from entering the Holy See and any church in Rome” …. (bovinabloviator.blog)

~ RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS: Six reasons why Stephen Harper’s government shouldn’t deliver an apology …. (nationalpost.com)

~ FAKING IT! “This is the first of a series of posts looking at the news this morning that a London Anglican Clergyman “married” two other male priests in a ceremony that mimicked marriage” …. (peter-ould.net, Yips)

~ THERE’S A JOLLY VID on Telegraph TV about how wicked the Church of England is to give in to secularisation …. (telegraph)

~ STOLEN KOSOVO (Czech with English sub-titles)– Ten Bilingual Video Reports on Kosovo by Czech TV (never broadcast) …. (noiri.blog)

~ ATHEIST MEDIA-GUY Dawkins searches with both hands, can’t quite find ass …. (timeimmortal.net)

~ MELANIE PHILLIPS on “Paradise lost” …. (spectator.co.uk)

World War IV

~ ISLAMIC ATTACK ON DISEASE CONTROL CENTER AVERTED: 1 MILLION POTENTIAL DEAD– Another Islamic disaster attack diverted …. (atlasshrugs2000)

~ WAAAAH! IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei says he will step down if major powers launch a military strike against Iran over its nuclear program. Yes, Mr. ElBaradei, that will be the world’s biggest concern if such events take place …. (Wz)

~ SCARAMOUCHE– “The best offence is a good offence: Iran is whinging because a representative of the country it has vowed to wipe of the map has informed Iran of his disinclination to go along with the map-wiping agenda” …. (scaramouche)

~ HUGH HEWITT– “IAEA Director-General Dr. Muhammad Al-Baradei: Iran Can Produce Enough Enriched Uranium for a Nuclear Bomb in Six Months to a Year” …. ()

~ SAUDI ARABIA: USCIRF Confirms Material Inciting Violence, Intolerance Remains in Textbooks Used at Saudi Government’s Islamic Saudi Academy …. (littlegreenfootballs)

~ SCIENCE or Religion? A False Choice …. (acton.org)

~ FINALLY, THE ANSWER: Disarm Israel And Teach Iran That Peace Is Nice …. (downwitheverybody)

~ RAYMOD IBRAHIM: “Islam’s War Doctrines Ignored” …. (victorhanson.com)

~ MIDDLE EAST UPDATE: Here’s what you need to know– Condi Rice is trying to control Israeli policy while Saudi Arabia is trying to control the U.S. and the UN …. (scaramouche)

~ EXPLOIT-A-JEW: Exploiting Anne Frank With The most tasteless T-shirt ever …. (weeklystandard)

~ STOP THE ACLU– “Why the drag lines were removed from the Flight 93 crash site memorial” …. (stoptheaclu)

~ UN NITWITS TELL UK to “Get rid of the Queen” …. (rjjago)

~ WHY INTELLECTUALS Like Genocide, by Theodore Dalrymple …. (newenglishreview.org)

~ GENOCIDE SQUABBLES: The Toronto District School Board has introduced a new program to acquaint students with the concept of genocide. Since it isn’t a survey course, three genocides are going to be discussed— the Armenian one, the Holocaust and the one in Rwanda. Naturally, this being multicultist Toronto, some groups are miffed about being left out—or in …. (scaramouche)

~ THE STRATEGY of Western Survivalists …. (gatesofvienna.blog)

~ THE CCP & SYRIAN NUKES: an ominous warning …. (shotgun)

~ THE HARD-FASCIST OLYMPICS– “Out damn’d spot!” China’s Potemkin Village Olympics and the complicity of the IOC and the global corporations profiting from the Olympics” …. (pundita.blog)

~ GEORGE BUSH HATES WHITE PEOPLE! Levees break in white neighborhoods, riots DON’T break out! …. (girlontheright)

LifeLinks

~ THE AIDS EPIDEMIC is mostly crap, admits lefty newspaper: primarily a gay thing. Made up by lefty activists who knew they were lying but wanted money to engineer society and enrich themselves in the process …. (fivefeetoffury)

~ A MATTER A Matter of Life and Birth: Celebrity childbirth in the age of abortion …. (spectator.org)

~ GEORGE NEUMAYR– What the Counterculture Has Joined Together: “A passionate tumultuous age will overthrow everything, pull everything down,” wrote Soren Kierkegaard, “but a revolutionary age that is at the same time reflective and passionless leaves everything standing but cunningly empties it of significance.” …. (spectator.org)

~ BREAKTHROUGH: Adult Stem Cells & Parkinson’s …. (theanchoressonline)

~ DISCUSS: “Make my baby straight, doctor” …. (worldontheweb)

~ CURT JESTER– Same-sex “marriages” on Monday; To defend marriage, first you have to know what it is …. (curtjester)

~ FIRST THINGS: The War on Abstinence; Teenage Pregnancy …. (transfigurations.blog)

~ NATURAL™ vs. ‘natural’ vs. natural …. (worldontheweb)

~ ECUADORIAN Obstetricians and Gynecologists Issue Thundering Manifesto Against Abortion …. (transfigurations.blog)

~ EVEN THOUGH 4/5th’s of Breast Cancers are caught by self & DR exams,… we should stop using them …. (MaD)

~ UK CHARITY: Female Babies Disappearing From India …. (downwitheverybody)

~ I DON’T LINK to evil slutopia often, Gardasil …. (MaD)

~ YOUNGME - NOWME …. (haha.nu)

~ MEDICAL ASSOCIATION Seeks to Deny Pharmacists Freedom of Conscience …. (lifesitenews)

~ SHOTGUN– “In family courts across the land, judges hold effectively the same powers over separated parents as feudal lords held over their serfs, and it pleases them to exercise this power without much restraint.” …. (shotgun)

~ THE PERVING OF POP CULTURE– “I hope my boyfriend don’t mind it…” …. (the-girl-in-blue.blog)

~ HOMOPHOBICAL Lesbos Islanders in Court This Week Over Misappropriation Of “Lesbian” Name …. (lifesitenews)

~ TOO MANY ADULT Stem Cells Successes to Keep Up …. (wesleyjsmith)

~ MERE COMMENTS: “Gettin Ejecated” …. (merecomments)

~ SOPHOMORIC– “I wanted to disclose a few things I have learned during my time at GW” …. (dawneden.blog)

~ GOOD NEWS, not involving fetal stem-cells: “Doctors Inject Cloned Immune Cells, Cure Man of Cancer” …. (neatorama)

~ PRO-ABORT THUGGERY Keeps On Truckin’ …. (socon.ca)

~ NON-CONTROVERSIAL Biotech: Biomarkers in Drug Testing …. (wesleyjsmith)

~ OBAMA TWICE OPPOSED Opposed Defining Babies who Survived Late-Term Abortions as “Persons” …. (weaselzippers)

~ MERE COMMENTS– “Nuances of Sex and the City” …. (merecomments)

~ PRESSURING Media to be Assisted Suicide Propagandists …. (wesleyjsmith.com)

~ THE TOP TEN male-bashing ads. The Dairy Queen ad is particularly creepy …. (pajamasmedia)

~ BRITISH MP Applauds 400 Million Missing Chinese …. (lifesitenews)

~ ANOTHER Abortion Nightmare …. (socon.ca)

~ WHEN IS DEAD REALLY DEAD? Organ Donation Just Got More Complicated …. (wesleyjsmith)

~ MAGISTATS– Doctors lack legal right to pull plug …. (magicstatistics.com)

~ KATHLEEN PARKER enters the book scene today with Save the Males: Why Men Matter. Why Women Should Care. It’s her first book and she makes it matter. Funny, clever, and important, she highlights some of the dangerous and prevalent anti-male trends out there …. (nrotc)

~ 123 MANITOBA WOMEN KILLED every year because of flawed breast cancer program. Almost double the national rate …. (MaD)

~ TEACHER KILLS autistic child …. (rjjago)

~ MEDIA DENIAL ASIDE, here’s 104 Photos from the March for Life …. (soberingthoughts.blog)

~ DADDY DEAREST– Losing a miracle; a call to arms …. (nationalreview)

~ ANOTHER DAY, another new sexual fetish “community” wants right to “marry”.. “The Woman Who Fell In Love With the Berlin Wall” …. (fivefeetoffury)

Man-Hug Like a Pro

~ HUMAN TRAFFICKING reports names Iran and Moldova as the worst …. (magicstatistics)

~ CONSEQUENCES– Oral Sex and Throat Cancer: It’s not meant to go there …. (socon.ca)

~ FURTHER Into The Abyss …. (thereturnofscipio)

~ THE WAR ON on Drinking: The Neo-Prohibitionists’ Latest Salvo …. (am770chqr.com)

~ JOSEPH CHAMIE …. According to a recent article, he finds himself caught in the abortion bind: on the one hand he supports a woman’s right to choose to have an abortion; on the other, he opposes the growing practice of choosing to abort a child (usually a girl) because it is the wrong sex. Actually, he writes about this dilemma in the third person plural, but it is clear that he is one of the “many people” wrestling with it …. (mercatornet.com)

~ KILL KILL KILL! “The Happening” — Environmentalists’ genocidal human-extinction fantasies just keep getting more detailed. Keep ‘em away from biotech, please …. (pajamasmedia.com)

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Canuckistan News

~ TERROR-HAVEN? WE’RE ALSO A SPY-HAVEN! Canadian Engineer Xiaodong Sheldon Meng was sentenced two years for stealing US fighter pilot training simulation software and trying to sell it to the ChiComs …. (radiofreecanada.us)

~ ROBERT JAGO– “Now I’m off to celebrate National Aboriginal Day by going hiking on the side of a mountain, then to a BBQ and drinking binge. I may buy a lottery ticket.” …. (rjjago)

~ TAX-FREEDOM DAY! — We slaves get to work for ourselves the rest of the year! Yup– the socialist paradise means a 60-70% tax rate, once you factor in all the hidden stuff. Because bureaucrats are better at spending “your” money than you are …. (shotgun)

~ MAKE CANADA A Haven For War Resisters? …. (downwitheverybody)

~ CANADA’S WAR Versus the British War– Canada entered the Afgan conflict ill equipped …. (cjunk.blog)

~ A DANCE-MIX of Canadian Minister of Industry Jim Prentice lying about Canadian DMCA. Canada’s DMCA: a new public service announcement …. (boingboing)

~ CANADIAN LEFTIES Battle Against Reality– “While the Cuban Reds have grasped that you cannot consume more than you produce, the Canadian Autoworkers Union rage against the obvious and the necessary. Since June 4th CAW members have blockaded GM’s Canadian Head Offices in Oshawa, a “protest” sparked by a decision to close a plant producing unmarketable trucks and cars” …. (godscopybook)

~ CANADIANS oppose Bill C-10…but for all the wrong reasons …. (shotgun)

~ THE PEOPLE RESPONSIBLE For Your Childrens’ Education! “The mother of an autistic girl says the public school board was “completely unprofessional” to formulate a theory that her daughter was being sexually abused.. based on a psychic’s perception” …. (sda)

~ THE INTERSECTION of Treason and Modern Art: “Quebec nationalists are easily the silliest secessionists in the world” …. (godscopybook.blog)

~ SIGCARLFRED.. ‘How has Canada’s doctor shortage affected your life?’; Beneath The Veil: What Government Managed Health Care Looks Like …. (sigmundcarlandalfred)

~ CANADA PENSION - A Must Read. Only in Canada. Do not apply for your old age pension… Apply to be a refugee! …. (MaD)

~ THE IZZY REGISTRY: “First, they fleeced us for billions with a gun registry that didn’t save a single life … and now they plan on fleecing us again with a new registry” …. (cjunk.blog)

~ THE CENTRE OF THE UNIVERSE– “Larry, his brother Darryl, and his other brother Darryl: The way I figure it, that’s who’s running the Toronto Transit Commission and City Hall, since only the witless products of rural inbreeding could possibly screw things up this bad” …. (scaramouche)

~ OUR SOCIALIST would-be masters: “I know socialists claim to be “progressive”, but this is ridiculous” …. (p2bc)

~ GOD’S COPYBOOK.. “Is there anyone in the Conservative Party’s Quebec wing who didn’t sleep with this woman?” …. (godscopybook.blog)

~ A MODEST PROPOSAL– Sharing is Caring …. (dustmybroom)

New Media, Teh Interwebs, Blogs

~ AP DEMANDS $$$$$$$$$$$$.. er, ‘blogging standards’. Malkin– “Hey, Associated Press: You owe me at least $132,125!” AP: The Internet’s Big Bully …. (Various)

~ HOW CHINESE CYBER-ESPIONAGE threatens American security …. (frontpagemag)

~ ED DRISCOLL– “My God, It’s Full Of Blogs” …. (eddriscoll.com)

~ AM GOOGLE ARE making we stupids? “As we are drained of our “inner repertory of dense cultural inheritance,” Foreman concluded, we risk turning into “‘pancake people’—spread wide and thin as we connect with that vast network of information accessed by the mere touch of a button.” …. (sigmundcarlandalfred)

~ MORE SCIENCE LABS: Blogospheric Linkfluence Charted …. (lgf)

A Bergmanesque exploration of What Blogging Means

~ SILICON GRAFFITI: When Waves Collide …. (eddriscoll)

~ FIRST THEY CAME for the Police …. (gatesofvienna.blog)

~ DON’T WANNA HURT THE FEELINGS OF POOR WIDDLE TYRANTS– BBC: Report on Blogger Arrests Obscures Most Arrests Are in Non-Democratic Nations …. (newsbusters.org)

~ FIREFOX 3 Now Available; Firefox downloads smash 5m target. Color management tweak in Firefox 3 …. (Various)

~ TAKE A LOOK AT Vanity Fair’s Blog Map …. (newsbusters.org)

~ POWER USER’S GUIDE to Firefox 3 …. (lifehacker)

~ DOES GOOGLE HATE America? Farah among critics of search giant short on patriotism …. (wnd)

~ TIM RUSSERT DIES.. Of an apparent sudden coronary thrombosis. On the other hand, James Bowman: “I wonder if there isn’t something just a tiny bit unseemly about such effusiveness. Why do we wrap the gentleman in our more rawer breath? Not having known Tim Russert personally, I obviously have no reason to dissent from the universally-held opinion that he was a great guy, a perfect son, husband and father, but would he himself have been quite comfortable about it if he could have witnessed his apotheosis as a hero-journalist which has ensued upon his untimely death?” …. (sda, NC)

Pop Culture, Odds & Ends, Geekery

~ TIME IMMORTAL: “People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has sent a proposal to the Somerset County commissioners to lease their jail for the world’s first Lobster Empathy Center” …. (timeimmortal.net)

~ UGLY MODERN ARCHITECTURE– Roger Scruton on Léon Krier …. (edwardmichaelgeorge.blog)

~ MOVIE REVIEW– The Incredible Hulk …. (guardian)

~ HEY, NERDY DADS– got Lego-kids over 3 years old? BrickArms makes the best weapons for Lego minifigs ever. Buy a pack, and hand a few out as bribes and rewards. Here are ancient weapons, reviewed at The Brothers Brick …. (Various)

~ HMMMM– “Indiana Jones and the Close Encounters of The Third Kind Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” Movie Takes: How bad is it? …. (spectator.org)

~ UM, DUDE, where’s my sunspots? …. (theanchoressonline, SoHo.nasa.gov)

~ I’M A BONA FIDE SCI-FI GEEK from way back (except it never became my religion) and I agree– BSG lost me a while back.. the She-Binks continued to watch throught this season, which seemed less sci than soap, with screaming and too many close-ups and swerving plotlines and pass me the TV-whacker dear heaven there must be something– anything– better than this on …. (nrotc)

~ GENERATOR BLOG: all sorts of recent goodness! …. (generatorblog)

~ VIDEOSIFT: Best Video Clips of the Week #1 …. (neatorama.com)

~ MOONBATS who wish to live in the good old 1300s …. (rjjago)

~ A SLIDE SHOW to Humble Anyone …. (cjunk.blog)

~ TUNE IT UP: “Five Ways To Keep Your Car Running At Peak Fuel Efficiency” …. (lifehacker.com)

~ SHAWN MACOMBER: A coloring book that speaks to today’s children: I Don’t Want to Blow You Up! “Color Me PC” …. (nationalreview)

~ THE VIOLENT IMPLICATIONS of Scarcity: What to Expect in the Food and Fuel Crises …. (mackenzieinstitute)

~ NEATORAMA– “Best Movie Posters of All Time” …. (neatorama.com)

~ WALL-E = PHON-Y? “And once you’re done being lectured on the evils of consumerism by your betters in Hollywood, you can buy their merchandise!… For only $250, you can buy the remote-control Wall-E action figure – which will be available in time for Christmas”.. and too much, much, much more! …. (eddriscoll)

~ STAR WARS SECRETS– “Uh-oh… Don’t tell Han (or Rusty)” …. (mypetjawa)

~ THE MAESTRO: “The great Stan Winston, who helped to create everything from the Jurassic Park dinosaurs to Iron Man’s armor, has died.” …. (dp)

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binky — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:56:29 +0000

Religious News

~ PRAYERS, PLEASE for Dawn Eden, as she recovers …. (dawneden.blog)

~ IRAQI CHRISTIANS Demonstrate in Oslo, Plea for Help From West …. (Wz)

~ NEWS COULD COME after Lambeth on Traditional Anglican Communion …. (deborahgyapong.blog)

~ TWO SCOOPS of offense in Kellogg’s All Bran …. (blazingcatfur.blog)

~ THE CAMPAIGN against ‘Saint John Paul’ …. (blogs.telegraph)

~ QUEBEC COMMISSION calls for “open secularism”.. A Quebec commission studying the “reasonable accommodation” of religious and other minorities has recommended “open secularism” as a way to resolve tensions …. (canadianchristianity)

~ THE LOOMING QUESTION: “Your Bloviator has been following with interest the saga of the Traditional Anglican Communion, a breakaway group of beleaguered Anglicans who would dearly love to come over to Rome” …. (bovinabloviator.blog)

~ HER MAJESTY Elizabeth II - The Last Christian English Queen? …. (socon.ca)

~ SYNDROME sufferers: The Toronto Star’s Oakland Ross writes about a strange malady—Jerusalem syndrome. It strikes Christian and Jewish men whose encounter with the holy city prompts some odd behaviour …. (scaramouche)

~ ANGLICANS to debate conversion-of-Muslims motion– Motion calls on church to proclaim Christianity only route to ultimate salvation …. (wnd)

~ IRAN LAUNCHES Crackdown on Christian Converts; Algeria: Prosecutor Asks Court to Jail Christian Converts …. (Wz)

~ FALSE PROPHETS– Tremors in Oprah’s empire: “Winfrey takes on politics and new-age spiritualism and jeopardizes status” …. (tvguide)

~ SOCIALIST Joy McPhail sees no joy in Christian’s views …. (p2bc)

~ ATHEIST to Benedictine Monk and Priest …. (curtjester)

~ EVIL SAYS WHAT? “We are atheists and for us, having sex in church is like doing it any other place” …. (cnn.com)

~ CANADA’S Catholic Revival …. (zenit.org)

~ JUDAS: A Saint for Our Seasons– “Black is white. Hate is Love. Slavery is Freedom. Treason is Loyalty. That last phrase fits right in to the secular catechism, doesn’t it? All it needs to become holy writ is an avatar, a solid historical personage with the power to turn darkness into light, lies into truth, and betrayal into something that was, in the final analysis, “all good.” …. (americandigest.org)

~ DEAR JOHN Bentley Mays– let us pray for you …. (deborahgyapong.blog)

~ WHACKNUT Father Pfleger Steals Act From Bobcat Goldthwait …. (peoplescube.com)

~ SOME HOPE FOR the Anglican Church, film at 11:00 to see how that goes …. (MaD)

~ 3,000 Iraqis become Roman Catholics …. (holysmoke)

~ SURELY a mistake? …. (ghostofaflea.com)

~ MEGA-CHURCHIANITY: Who is Advising John McCain? …. (youarecephas.blog)

~ A RACIST NATIVE-HATING RACIST? Fond Memories of Residential School …. (dustmybroom.com)

~ ALGERIA Slams Christian Evangelists, “Colonizers, who Violate the Koran and Sunna” …. (Wz)

~ NITWIT BISHOP: Failure To Act On Climate Change Is Like Incestuous Sex Abuse …. (sigmundcarlandalfred)

~ MONKS FORGIVE women on Mount Athos …. (telegraph)

~ ANY QUESTIONS? — It’s to be Excommunication for ordination of women …. (socon.ca, BB)

~ ANGLICANS on homosexual Marriages, 1978 and today …. (MaD)

~ RABBI DALIN delivers a stunning blow to pope-haters …. (sleepyoldbear)

~ SHOTGUN BLOG– Mass detention of religious minorities in Iran - First Bahai’s and now Christians. Germany: Bring In the Christians …. (shotgun, brusselsjournal.com)

~ A ST. AUGUSTINE Story About Relics …. (youarecephas.blog)

~ CURT JESTER: “Who can out-puppet the other?” …. (curtjester)

~ AMERICAN THINKER– “Get Me from the Church on Time” …. (americanthinker.com)

~ A NEW BOOK– Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis, by Michael Ward …. (llamabutchers)

~ SIN ON A BUN: The Forgotten Vice of Gluttony …. (evangelicaloutpost.com)

A horror movie for Sandalistas

~ DOZENS OF historic churches to be closed– Falling attendance, fewer priests, force action by Anglicans, Catholics …. (wnd)

~ CHRISTIANS On Trial: France’s Ambiguous Defense of Habiba Kouider …. (brusselsjournal.com)

~ THE ALPHA NARCISSUS– Gay bishop threatens to upstage gays …. (blogs.telegraph, youarecephas.blog)

~ A PRETTY GOOD summa of the humanities …. (worldontheweb)

World War IV

~ AN OPEN LETTER to Barack Obama …. (gatesofvienna.blog)

~ NASRALLAH’S speech: Hezbollah Ruled, the West was Fooled, By Walid Phares …. (counterterrorismblog.org)

~ SURPRISE: Nuclear Agency Accuses Iran of Willful Lack of Cooperation …. (pajamasmedia.com)

~ WHY THE MULLAHS Will Keep on Fighting Us — and Destroying Iran …. (pajamasmedia)

~ THE U.N. AT WORK: “Kids as young as 6 raped by U.N. peacekeepers: Children continue to be sexually abused despite promises to stamp it out ” …. (wnd)

~ GHOST OF A FLEA– “If a future catastrophe is inevitable, its impact has a way of leaping back into the present– “Spengler considers the state of Persia’s pocket empire and the question of whether its masters will acknowledge they have failed or attempt a military adventure. My money too is on adventure” …. (ghostofaflea)

~ PUNDITA– “Isn’t it grand that Iraq now has politics?” …. (pundita.blog)

~ SYRIA TO ALLOW Probe of Nuke Site - after they’ve already cleaned up …. (americanthinker.com)

~ AMERICA DIGEST– Your UN Dollars Fighting Hunger! At the world hunger meeting it’s hard to go hungry: Leaders feast on Italian fare during hunger summit …. (americandigest.org)

~ MORE SO THAN ANY ” other Arab regime, the Saudi ruling family knows full well that if Hezbollah takes over Lebanon completely, it could form a united front with Iran, Syria, Hamas and Muqtada Al-Sadr’s martyrs against Israel, the US and pro-American autocratic Arab regimes, especially the Saudi-Wahhabi alliance. What would happen if this scenario actually played out, and who would inexorably benefit?” …. (ivp)

~ THE EU THREATENS the British Constitution …. (MaD)

~ UKRAINIAN famine should be part of genocide course …. (dustmybroom.com)

~ XANTHIPPA: Yet another reason to skip the Beijing Olympics …. (xanthippaschamberpot)

~ LET THEM EAT FROGS! “Rangoon - The military junta began evicting destitute families from cyclone relief centres on Friday and rejected foreign food aid - because people can survive perfectly well by hunting “large, edible frogs.” …. (mypetjawa)

~ HUGH HEWITT– “China Estimates 4,000 Orphaned In The Quake” …. (townhall.com)

~ CRUSHING the Burmese Junta with Panties! …. (americandigest.org)

LifeLinks

~ DUST MY BROOM: “Anyone know the length of time an abortion is allowed in Canada?” …. (dustmybroom.com)

~ A CHIMERA looks fine on a flag …. (timeimmortal.net)

~ SOCON.CA on “An Irrelevant Group of Men” …. (socon.ca)

~ MIKE ADAMS offers an olive branch to his university’s ‘radical feminists’ in The Ovary Tower …. (sleepyoldbear)

~ MERE COMMENTS– “The Cold Feet of Bachelors” …. (merecomments)

~ ERRING 6th-GRADER WARNED: Stop wearing pro-life T-shirts– ‘It’s scary to stand up to people in authority,’ says mom of boy on a mission …. (worldnetdaily)

~ MEMOIR: Courtney Love resisted abortion …. (fivefeetoffury)

~ SILENCE!! Saskatchewan Marriage Commissioner Fined For Refusing To “Marry” Homosexuals …. (anglican-mainstream)

~ ROBERT JAGO: Teacher torments autistic child …. (rjjago)

~ THE INMATES are running the asylum …. (girlontheright.com)

~ GRISLY EXHIBITIONISM– “No Way to Tell if Plastinated Bodies Come from Executed Prisoners - Company Admits” …. (lifesitenews.com)

~ ALICE WALKER WAS - and still is - a man-hating feminist who raised her child, Rebecca, in her madness. In fact, when Rebecca announced she was pregnant, her mother disowned her …. (girlontheright.com)

~ TOM SMITH– Affronts to human dignity …. (pajamasmedia)

~ EASY PICKINS for “Right to Die” Propagandists …. (socon.ca)

~ BROWN and the Blight of British Bioethics …. (evangelicaloutpost)

~ IN CHINA, TRAGEDY COMPOUNDED BY TYRANNY: “Imagine having to get a government certificate in order to obtain permission to have another baby after losing your only child to natural disaster.” But it’s good for Gaia …. (pajamasmedia, hh)

~ SOCON.CA: Protest the Pill Day - June 7 …. (socon.ca)

~ CONTEMPT for motherhood: a feminist ideal …. (timeimmortal.net)

~ P2BC ON The Disappearance of Childhood …. (proudtobecanadian.ca)

~ NEW STUDY– Premature babies ‘need cuddles’: Skin to skin contact with parents reduces stress of painful medical procedures …. (wnd)

~ GIRL ON THE RIGHT: “The abortion that wasn’t” …. (girlontheright.com)

~ WEININGER’S WOMEN: The Misogyny of Sex and the City …. (evangelicaloutpost)

~ PEOPLE ARE Chimps, too! …. (downwitheverybody)

~ DON’T YOU WANT YOUR LITTLE GIRLS to grow up into druggie hooker-types who sing about sex a lot and publically humiliate themselves on TV? “Fergie is Fun For Kids!” …. (idontlikeyouinthatway)

~ MEMOIR: Courtney Love resisted abortion …. (fivefeetoffury)

~ MALKIN– Liberals: No to transracial adoptions, yes to homosexual adoptions? and “Planned Parenthood’s obscene profits” …. (michellemalkin.com)

~ PRO-WOMAN PRO-LIFE BLOG– Ads are deceptive? The pink elephant …. (prowomanprolife.org)

~ TIME IMMORTAL: “So where are these “good reasons” for abortion?” …. (timeimmortal.net)

~ THE MONOGAMOUS Male Marriage: Fidelity, Promiscuity, and Gay Marriage …. (evangelicaloutpost)

~ WHEN DEATHS Outnumber Births — The Parable of Pittsburgh …. (albertmohler.com)

~ PROGRESSIVE IDEOLOGY is bad for pupils …. (telegraph)

~ LET’S GIVE THE Mommybloggers Some Respect …. (pajamasmedia)

~ THE END OF EDUMICATION: “Pupils would no longer study history, geography and science but learn skills such as energy- saving and civic responsibility through projects and themes.” So.. you’ll get a happy-face sticker in Gaia-class? “The enemy within British education” …. (mypetjawa, spectator)

Canuckistan News

~ SOCIALIZED Health Care: Now With No Health Care …. (dailybayonet.blog)

~ THE ZENN Motor Company.. “After a public outcry, Transport Canada has taken steps to fast-track approval of the Canadian-made Zenn electric car” …. (zenncars.com)

~ MINISTRY OF INFORMATION– “The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. is behind an unprecedented flood of complaints to Canada’s information watchdog. The latest annual report from Information Commissioner Robert Marleau says his office received 536 complaints about the public broadcaster in 2007-2008, more than any other department or agency of government” …. (hallsofmacadamia.blog)

~ WORTHWHILE Canadian Sex Scandals …. (godscopybook.blog)

~ MACADAMIA– “There’s no other word for it… It’s a shakedown… as close to extortion as you can get.” …. (hallsofmacadamia.blog)

~ BERNIER’S OUT– “There’s a lesson here: don’t leave classified documents at your girlfriend’s place, especially if said girlfriend has been linked with the Hell’s Angels. But I suspect you already knew that” …. (dp)

~ THE PERPETUAL liberal house, of sober second liberal thoughts …. (MaD)

~ WITH A SMILE! Logan’s Run: Death Centres Awaiting Us …. (socon.ca)

~ BLOGGING: It’s Good For Your Health! …. (neatorama.com)

~ SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD IDEA: “Mayor Pushes To Make Shooting People Illegal In Toronto”. Knife crime ignored while Toronto goes after legal gun owners.. then there’s the pointy-stick and clenched fingers (fist) problem …. (smalldeadanimals.com)

~ UK MILITARY BLOGGERS– UK Military Bloggers Watching Canadian Forces …. (cjunk.blog)

~ LIBERAL UTOPIA– “Sen. Obama’s right. There are going to be 57 states!” …. (liberalutopia.blog)

~ DUST MY BROOM– “Today, we hate nurses”! …. (dustmybroom.com)

New Media, Teh Interwebs, Blogs

~ GOOGLE CELEBRATES Memorial Day (not); What’s Important to Google? …. (pajamasmedia, lgf)

~ HOTAIR.COM on “Where blogs are blogs and politicians are nervous” …. (hotair.com)

~ MORE GOOGLE suckery– “So today is the D-Day Anniversary. Today is the day RFK died 40 years ago. So Google is celebrating Diego Velázquez’s birthday, natch” …. (nrotc, GofV)

~ CHICOM HACKERISM– “The wood for the trees: Chinese fascists may be directly responsible for endangering the lives of tens of millions of American and Canadian citizens - including my family - and for billions of dollars in lost productivity” …. (ghostofaflea)

~ MALAYSIAN Government to add Comments on Citizen’s Blogs …. (Wz)

~ NET NEUTRALITY, via xanthippas chamberpot …. (xanthippaschamberpot)

~ LGF TECH NOTE: Internet Explorer ‘Adjustments’ …. (lgf)

~ BIG McBROTHER — McDonald’s Tries Out New RFID-enabled Pay-By-Phone Coupons …. (blog.wired.com)

Weezer salutes YouTube

Pop Culture, Odds & Ends, Geekery

~ NERDY GOODNESS! Phoenix Mars Lander. First pictures from Mars & the coolest live blog on the web …. (neatorama, rjago)

~ OBAMA: Not Auschwitz, but Buchenwald. And not his uncle, but his great-uncle …. (pajamasmedia.com)

~ CURSE THOSE SUVs!! Global Warming Strikes Jupiter! …. (americandigest.org)

~ ALBERT MOHLER: “Two Biographies of Albert Einstein” …. (albertmohler.com)

~ A MEMORIAL DAY salute to all-time favorite war films …. (armchaircommentary.com)

~ A LATE NIGHT LAUGH: Read Me A Bedtime Story, Mommy …. (sigmundcarlandalfred)

~ THAT BURNY HOT THINGY– “Who would have thought the heat from the Sun would affect the temperature on Earth?” Be worried: “Climate change - as opposed to the consensus about global warming - does not go in one direction. A warmer planet would not be grand but we could deal with it. A colder planet, on the other hand would mean millions of very marginal people would die” …. (freedominion.com)

~ CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME: No longer seen as “yuppie flu.” “Some scientists and many patients remain highly critical of the C.D.C.’s record on chronic fatigue syndrome. But nearly everyone now agrees that the syndrome is real.” …. (pajamasmedia.com)

~ ARCHAEOLOGISTS’ COMPLAINTS about what Indiana Jones has done to the image of their profession seem a bit overwrought …. (pajamasmedia.com)

~ SMART-ALECKY TWERP Isolates Microbe That Eats Plastic, Potentially Saves Earth …. (neatorama.com)

~ OUR ELECTRO-GODS– The Illuminati is a selection of photos by photographer Evan Baden that show young people seemingly mesmerized by the glow of their electronic devices. Via …. (filemagazine)

~ PETER SCHJELDAHL’S ‘Let’s See’: Art’s Willing Executioner …. (nysun.com)

~ OK: WE’RE MANLY TECHNO-DWEEBS, TOO– but this guy needs to chill: “1080p Patton - a Revelation.” How much reality-like video do we need, exactly? Isn’t reality best? …. (shotgun)

~ GLOBAL WARMENING THEORIES cost jobs: “Unintended Consequences for Lefties: GM Plant Closures”; Jobless GM Automakers Celebrate Saving The Planet …. (dailybayonet.blog, thepeoplescube)

~ REMEMBERING POOR Tintin’s Beatdowns: The Trauma Chart …. (americandigest.org)

~ BREAKING NEWS! “US Army pinned down in bungled assault. Huge civilian casualties. Experts fear grave damage to the environment!” …. (pajamasmedia.com)

~ CHOCOLATE: Is there anything it can’t do? “All the talk about chocolate being good for your health is starting to get serious. Mars Inc., of chocolate bar fame, has established a scientific division. And a group of researchers, some in Germany, others with the new Mars division known as Symbioscience, has just published a report showing that an enriched hot cocoa beverage can improve blood flow in people with type 2 diabetes.” …. (pajamasmedia)