Archive for September, 2006
Monday, September 25th, 2006
Mel Gibson, commenting at an early screening of his upcoming movie Apocalypto, drew a comparison between the morally horrific decline of the Mayans and present day American culture. "What's human sacrifice," he asked, "if not sending guys off to Iraq for no reason?"
As a writer/director who has tackled the ...
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Tuesday, September 19th, 2006
What do you call the gooey or dry matter that collects in the corners of your eyes, especially while you are sleeping? What do you say when you want to lay claim to the front seat of a car? What do you call paper that has already been ...
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Monday, September 18th, 2006
I am just flabbergasted at the childish melodrama coming from prominent middle-eastern Muslim voices over this Benedict thing. for example, Ahmad Khatami, a prominent cleric in the city of Qom told his students:
[The] Pope should fall on his knees in front of a senior Muslim cleric and try to ...
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Saturday, September 16th, 2006
Hey, father, what's the good word?
Pope Benedict XVI showed his stripes today in comments which stung and grievously wounded the hearts and souls of Muslims worldwide to the point that, with great reluctance, they whipped out their prepared effigies of the Pope and burned them.
Salih Kapusuz, a deputy leader of ...
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