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| Weekend listmania: Messiahs and strange religions |
| Published: July 25, 2008, 11:20 pm |
| This attractive illustration of three Kings (you'd have thought) comes from a list-manic site offering "ten religions you never knew existed". Some are familiar to Faith Central aficionados - Falun Gong, Jainism, Unification Church - but I must admit that Mazdakism is new to me. It was founded by a socialist |
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| How to Defeat the Dems |
| Published: July 25, 2008, 9:32 pm |
| Find it here Wilson Waxes Wexler/Matthews Double-Team By Mark Finkelstein The screencap captures it nicely: Heather Wilson, smiling. Robert Wexler, mouth agape. On this afternoon’s Hardball, the feisty, brilliant [bio: high honors Air Force Academy grad, Rhodes Scholar] GOP representative from New Mexico took on the duo of the |
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| D'ohohbama |
| Published: July 25, 2008, 9:12 pm |
| I know that I don't look like the Americans who've previously spoken in this great city. Barak Obama waving his race card and dissing others at the same time ... nuff said H/T DougM |
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| A First Look at Lessons Learned |
| Published: July 25, 2008, 8:59 pm |
| Tags: War On Terror Military |
| From the War in Iraq, by Jim Dunnigan: Lessons Of The Iraq War July 25, 2008: As the U.S. armed forces have done so many times before, they entered the uncertainty of a new war in 2001, and are now trying to figure out what they gained from it. Most of what went on during this war was unreported or misreported. This is nothing new. The |
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| Obama's note at the Western Wall asks for God's guidance |
| Published: July 25, 2008, 8:20 pm |
| Tags: Politics U S |
| Related Entries July 25, 2008 Latest video headlines from Israel July 24, 2008 Sderot welcomes Obama July 23, 2008 Ich bin ein Amerikaner July 23, 2008 Green transit, Hollywood Jew, New Yorker cover July 23, 2008 Obama sounds both hawkish and dovish themes in Israel, Jordan |
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| Apolitical Berlin Speech subject of Campaign Constributions Mailing |
| Published: July 25, 2008, 7:57 pm |
| Despite Osamabama saying his appearance in Berlin and his speech was apoliotical, having nothing to do with his campaign, oddly he uses it to solicit campaign contributions. Just Hours Later, Obama Campaign Uses Berlin Speech to Raise Campaign Cash Shortly after 6 pm Central time—just a few hours after Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, gave |
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| George W. Bush is Batman |
| Published: July 25, 2008, 7:36 pm |
| Tags: Media |
| Great analysis of the movie that I’m sure many of you picked up on in theaters. Also an excellent critique of the industry in general: There seems to me no question that the Batman film “The Dark Knight,” currently breaking every box office record in history, is at some level a paean of praise to the fortitude and moral courage |
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| Obama's $845 billion U.N. plan |
| Published: July 25, 2008, 6:32 pm |
| Tags: Politics |
| ‘Global Poverty Act’ to cost each citizen $2,500 or more. The U.S. Senate soon could debate whether you, your spouse and each of your children as well as your in-laws, parents, grandparents, neighbors and everyone else in America each will spend $2,500 or more to reduce poverty around the world. The plan sponsored by Sen. |
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| Time for Some Campaignin' |
| Published: July 25, 2008, 6:29 pm |
| Tags: Humor Politics Entertainment |
| Courtesy of JibJab, here’s your official Friday time-waster. |
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| A Lil Friday Humor |
| Published: July 25, 2008, 6:15 pm |
| An elderly Italian man went to his parish priest and asked if the priest would hear his confession. “Of course, my son,” said the priest. “Well, Father, at the beginning of World War Two, a beautiful woman knocked on my door and asked me to hide her from the Germans; I hid her in my attic, and they never found her.” |
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| Sarkozy: Obama's my pal' |
| Published: July 25, 2008, 5:06 pm |
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| 'Summercamp!': My DVD Pick of the Week |
| Published: July 25, 2008, 5:00 pm |
| Tags: Dvds, Dvd Pick Of The Week, Swift Nature Camp |
| Going to camp is a ritual almost everyone has experienced, but like every other cultural ritual, it sure has changed over time. At least that's the conclusion I came to watching the sweet documentary : "Summercamp!". Swift Nature Camp in... |
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| He ventured forth to bring light to the world |
| Published: July 25, 2008, 3:59 pm |
| Tags: Entertainment |
| And it came to pass, in the eighth year of the reign of the evil Bush the Younger (The Ignorant), when the whole land from the Arabian desert to the shores of the Great Lakes had been laid barren, that a Child appeared in the wilderness. Very funny article about Obama’s trip. I especially liked the line “The Great Prophet Algore of |
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| Paranormal beliefs, from prophetic dreams to Atlantis |
| Published: July 25, 2008, 1:56 pm |
| Millions of Americans, particularly women, share paranormal beliefs and experiences "that don't fit under any religious umbrella," says Christopher Bader, one of the Baylor University sociologists analyzing the Baylor Religion Survey. |
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| James Van Praagh, Catholic Medium? |
| Published: July 25, 2008, 1:23 pm |
| Tags: Celebrities, Catholic, Cher, James Van Praagh, The Ghost Whisperer |
| James Van Praagh is America's most famous medium. He regularly appears on talk shows to help people--famous and nonfamous alike--communicate with loved ones from beyond the grave. Cher once asked him to help her contact Sonny Bono. His new book,... |
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