Archive for the 'Religion' Category
Florida Woman Kills Son, Then Herself at Gun Range
April 8th, 2009I’ve lost track of all the recent bizarre shooting incidents. On the one hand, there’s a generalized crackup underway in the U.S. On the other hand, the regime is getting ready to try to get HR45 enacted. My guess is that we haven’t seen anything yet. Chillingly, hours before I read about this latest incident, […]
H.R. 1388: Obama’s Youth Brigade Conscripts Would Be Prohibited from “Organizing or Engaging in Protests” or Participating in a Variety of Religious Activities
March 24th, 2009Will the uniform include an armband? Via: GovTrack: SEC. 1304. PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES AND INELIGIBLE ORGANIZATIONS. Section 125 (42 U.S.C. 12575) is amended to read as follows: ‘SEC. 125. PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES AND INELIGIBLE ORGANIZATIONS. ‘(a) Prohibited Activities- A participant in an approved national service position under this subtitle may not engage in the following activities: ‘(1) […]
Israeli Soldiers Admit to Deliberate Killing of Gaza Civilians
March 20th, 2009Via: Times Online: The Israeli army has been forced to open an investigation into the conduct of its troops in Gaza after damning testimony from its own front line soldiers revealed the killing of civilians and rules of engagement so lax that one combatant said that they amounted on occasion to “cold-blooded murder”. The revelations, […]
Hitler’s Books: Insights Into an Evil Mind
March 12th, 2009Don’t miss the last sentence. Via: Providence Journal: The vault at the John Hay Library at Brown University is not exactly Hitler’s bunker, but it is below ground and could endure a bomb blast. It’s big. It’s locked. And inside, one finds something fascinating. No, the Führer’s not in there, but his books are — […]
Gordon Brown: ‘Globalisation is Not an Option , it is a Fact’
March 2nd, 2009I have obtained secret surveillance video from inside Number 10 that sheds some light on Gordon Brown’s “Global New Deal”: Via: Times Online: Historians will look back and say this was no ordinary time but a defining moment: an unprecedented period of global change, and a time when one chapter ended and another began. The […]
What is Gobekli Tepe?
March 1st, 2009This is one WTF, followed by another WTF, followed by another… Wikipedia: Gobekli Tepe Archaeology: The World’s First Temple 7,000 Years Older than Stonehenge: The Site that Stunned Archaeologists Smithsonian: Gobekli Tepe: The World’s First Temple? This Smithsonian Magazine article states: Hodder is fascinated that Gobekli Tepe’s pillar carvings are dominated not by edible prey […]
Scientologists Building 22,000-Square-Foot Underground Facility to Store Documents?
February 12th, 2009“I don’t care if it’s Church of Scientology, the Roman Catholic Church or, you know, Kraft Foods,” Barton said. Classic. Via: AP: The construction began last summer, stirring up dust that wafted down this desert valley and into a small community of off-the-grid homes. As many as 20 heavy trucks a day hauling construction materials […]
Legatus and Reinhardt
February 11th, 2009WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. I follow a lot of deeply strange information as a matter of routine. Almost none of it gets mentioned here. I’m sufficiently weirded out by something that I’ve been watching unfold over the last couple of days and thought I’d open […]
Tony Blair: World Needs More Religion
February 6th, 2009If you haven’t read the one about The Family, don’t miss it. (Also, The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power by Jeff Sharlet.) They’re the people behind the National Prayer Breakfast. Via: Independent: Tony Blair gave an extraordinary speech about the global importance of religion yesterday, telling an audience which included […]
The Amish and Small Businesses
January 9th, 2009* gasp * People without high school “educations” can run successful businesses?! HAHA. The New York Times. HAHA. Via: New York Times: The Amish, the religious sect that has determinedly kept the modern world at bay, have been leaving a quiet life of farming for jobs in small businesses — all the while trying to […]
