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Some light dawns on self-proclaimed liberal and atheist Susan Jaboby vis a vis multiculturalism and many of her fellow travelers on the Left. From Big Questions Online: The latest example of the Left’s blind spot on this issue is the antagonism of so many liberal reviewers toward Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s recent memoir, Nomad. The Somali-born [...] (From CNN.com) NEW YORK (CNN) — Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Thursday the city would not accept a $10 million donation for disaster relief from Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal after the prince suggested U.S. policies in the Middle East contributed to the September 11 attacks. “I entirely reject that statement,” Giuliani said. “There is no moral equivalent [...] Here’s a great Christopher Hitchens piece on Hugo Chavez from August 2 at Slate and it even contains a very slight redemption of Sean Penn (emphasis on slight) and a very damning portrait of Chavez. He just might be a lunatic — certifiably so. Or is he? Recent accounts of Hugo Chávez’s politicized necrophilia [...] From MY FOXNY: Your thumbprint might soon be the key to an afternoon candy bar. A Massachusetts based vending machine company is joinng the growing ranks of companies that are field-testing new technologies. Next Generation Vending and Food Service is experimenting with biometric vending machines that would allow a user to tie a credit card to [...]
Big Allah – Batteries Not Included (or invented for that matter). Is it just me, or is the symbolism here about as ironic as it gets? Saudi Arabia will test what it is billing as the world’s largest clock in the holy city of Mecca during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, the [...] I know this story is all over the news — people can’t STOP talking about it, but just in case you’re the one in 311 million people who haven’t heard… while New York City rushes to help Muslims build an Allah-damned mosque 500 ft. from Ground Zero — St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, which was [...] Bill McGurn has a great piece on the Mosque that is being planned near Ground Zero in today’s Wall Street Journal. Here’s a bit, go read the whole thing: In the 1980s, Carmelite nuns moved into an abandoned building on the edge of the former Nazi death camp to pray for the souls taken there. [...] "Don't *@&# with me, F.R. Turbo. I know people."
Day-of-show update: Taking calls at 877 – 942 – 2178 or connect via the younggunconservative Skype hook-up. Also joining (and bringing) the fun will be guest #2, Eli Braden, at 5:30 PST. Day-of-show update #2: If you’re out and about, iTunes and Blackberry users can [...] This is awesome… not the way I’d train my employee, but these things don’t always work according to corporate’s plan. And I like the way the story is presented straight up — no editorializing that I noticed. Share on Facebook What’s a principled agnostic to do caught betwixt and between believers and the New Atheists who are often more fundamentalist than their Christian counterparts? This article from Slate.com seeks to carve out territory for agnostics Here’s a bit: Let me make clear that I accept most of the New Atheist’s criticism of religious bad [...] From The Wall Street Journal’s Real Time Economics Blog: A new report from the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania lays out a stark picture of an Amish population boom. The Amish population — a religious group that limits its member’s access to conveniences like telephones and electric lights [...] Anne Rice… author of a whole horde of vampire novels has left Christianity for her old faith… feminist New Age-ism. The 68-year-old author wrote Wednesday on her Facebook page that she refuses to be “anti-gay … anti-feminist,” and “anti-artificial birth birth control.” She adds that “In the name of … Christ, I quit Christianity and being Christian. [...] Oh Gaia! I need a massage! Does Harry Reid’s recent removal of cap and trade from the Energy Bill signal the death of the global warming movement? While I think it’s always too soon to count out liberals (they are the loony slut from Fatal Attraction) this article from Forbes outlines why it [...] The Vatican is allowing the publication of 100 of its most interesting documents from its Secret Archives. From The Christian Science Monitor: “We were amazed by the access we were given and the speed with which the whole project was completed,” says Paul Van den Heuvel, the head of the Belgian publishing house undertaking the [...] Instapundit linked to this Washington Examiner blog post about a Pew Research Center poll where 26% of Democrats believe Jesus will definitely return within 40 years as opposed to 19% of Republicans. According to the poll, 26% of Democrats believe that the Second Coming “will definitely” happen within the next four decades. In comparison 19% of [...] Here’s an interesting article from der Speigel Online about a new quiet axis in the Middle East aligning against Iran. Here’s a bit, go read the whole thing here: This makes the words uttered last Tuesday by the UAE’s ambassador to the United States, Yousef Al Otaiba, in Aspen, Colorado, more than 12,500 kilometers to [...] It looks like Amish and Gangster Paradises are colliding… From The Buffalo News: An Amish teen who tried to flee police faces charges of alcohol possession and “overdriving an animal” after he crashed his getaway vehicle— a horse and buggy. Cattaraugus County sheriff’s deputies reported over the weekend that Levi E. Detweiler, 17, ran a stop [...] The Hookah Lighter by Jean-Leon Gerome The woman in the painting above is breaking Islamic law as interpreted by Hamas…. OK… she’s breaking a couple of laws. Hamas has outlawed wimmins from smoking hookahs in Gaza Strip. The Islamic war on life continues apace in Gaza: Smoking water pipes is a popular habit among both [...] The Vatican newspaper is reporting that the Jesuits in Rome may have a newly discovered Caravaggio (my favorite artist) painting depicting the martyrdom of St. Lawrence. From Yahoo News: The front-page story in L’Osservatore Romano came out as Italy celebrates the 400th anniversary of Caravaggio’s death. This weekend, churches and a gallery in Rome housing [...] Ashley Judd geologist movie star actress and self-proclaimed “hillbilly” is from Kentucky and she — like many of her Hollywood sisters (including Leo DiCaprio) — is an ardent environmentalist. In other words she loves inanimate objects over people and presumably animals rank up there too. She spouts off on people’s livelihoods yet provides [...] From the Associated Press: Like most North Koreans, Son Jong Nam knew next to nothing about Christianity when he fled to neighboring China in 1998. Eleven years later, he died back in North Korea in prison, reportedly tortured to death for trying to spread the Gospel in his native land, armed with 20 bibles and 10 cassette [...] Last year I gave a speech on religious liberty and the particular contribution of three men: Roger Williams and two Baptist preachers named Isaac Backus and John Leland. Leland especially was instrumental in the drafting of the First Amendment and passage of the Bill of Rights and if not for him James Madison was [...] In another decision released today, the Supreme Court found against the Christian Legal Society’s bid to remain a registered student organization and exclude openly gay members against the school policy of The Hastings College of the Law. In other words… public schools can now ban religious groups who exclude gays from leadership positions or [...] Besides the weekly Sunday Gospel posts and the occasional comment here and there on religion generally I try not to use this spot to proselytize or beat a specific theological drum too hard, but every so often I come across something I feel like sharing. One of my favorite blogs is by a pastor [...] Socialists and green whack jobs do no play. Witness this story from Spain — courtesy of Pajamas Media: Spain’s Dr. Gabriel Calzada — the author of a damning study concluding that Spain’s “green jobs” energy program has been a catastrophic economic failure — was mailed a dismantled bomb on Tuesday by solar energy company Thermotechnic. Says [...] Here’s a nice little profile of Ayaan Hirsi Ali — former Muslim and now an atheist — and a brave woman fighting Muslim extremists around the world especially in the battlegrounds of the West — from The Sydney Morning Herald. Here’s a bit, go read the whole thing: The subtitle of Nomad is A Personal [...] Sammy Davis, Jr. — Jew. Or was he? Maybe Sammy Davis, Jr. was a plant for the Dutch police. From The London Daily Telegraph: Lodewijk Asscher, Amsterdam’s mayor, has ordered the new decoy strategy to cut the number of verbal and physical attacks on Jews, amid fears that anti-Semitic “hate crime” is on [...] Touchdown Jesus, the infamous 60-foot cast of Jesus Christ emerging from a pond, has been an area talking point in Southwest Ohio since 2004. It’s now gone. To some it was a landmark. To others, a punchline.But to many, the 62-foot-tall “King of Kings” statue along Interstate 75 was a powerful and vibrant [...] Believe it or not, I actually had my own blog before I joined Threedonia. It was pretty good, too. A few more months, and I’d have had as many comments as we get here in a couple of days, if I hadn’t been lured away by Rufus. Regardless of the amount of people who saw or [...] In JohnFN’s post about Christopher Hitchens’ memoir David Marcoe commented on his frustration with Christopher Hitchens, mainly regarding his vocal and often vicious attacks on religion. A lot of us here like to philosophize a bit, many of us are also practicing members of a religious faith and many of us also admire guys like [...] I’m proud to go to church with this man and humbled by his example. Kermit Alexander was a DB in the 1960s most famous for injuring Gale Sayers. This story is unbelievable — and yet it happened. We saw the kids in church a few weeks ago. Well worth your 10 minutes. Share [...] This kid, Raymond Hosier, was asked by his teacher in Oneida, New York to remove his rosary beads because they might be a gang symbol. Another kid in the story, from Texas also had to remove a cross and his beads. From FOX News Radio: “I think it’s not right to kick me out [...] For those sharing the enthusiasm of Christopher Hitchens’ upcoming memoir, it’s now listed as “in stock” at Amazon. I ordered my copy last night and it should ship Monday. Coming with it will be his brother’s “The Rage Against God” and “Money” by Hitchens’ life-long friend Martin Amis. Might as well dip the toe into [...] Algerian postcard from the 1920s = Mohammed’s Flight From Mecca in 622. Mohammed is the guy entering the cave. Share on Facebook A new book layssome of the blame for Islamic fundamentalist rage at the feet of Hitler’s WW2 radio broadcasts to the Middle East. From the Sunday Telegraph: In a broadcast aimed at provoking an anti-Semitic uprising in Egypt, he (Hitler) said: “A large number of Jews who live in Egypt, along with Poles, Greeks, Armenians and [...] Mohammed from a 13th century Persian manuscript… He’s the guy on the right holding what looks to be a really red staircase banister. Share on Facebook No words can adequately describe how completely f**ked up these people are:
h/t: The Daughtorial Unit Share on Facebook This Iranian cleric thinks thinks that extramarital sex causes earthquakes. Specifically — women dressing provocatively causing men to step outside their marriages fuels earthquakes in Iran. From The Australian: “Many women who dress inappropriately … cause youths to go astray, taint their chastity and incite extramarital sex in society, which increases earthquakes,” Ayatollah Kazem [...] How about a little Flannery O’Connor this Saturday? From Terry Teachout at Contentions: That an author who published only two short novels and twenty stories (not counting student work) in her lifetime should now be the subject of such posthumous acclaim is the stuff reevaluations are made of. Might some of the attention now being [...] Today is the 65th anniversary of the execution by the Nazis of Dietrich Bonhoeffer at Flossenburg concentration camp. Bonhoeffer was a Confessing Church pastor and a passionate lover of both his Church and the German people. Offered several pastorates overseas in the late 1930s and early 1940s he refused to abandon his flock [...] Here’s an interesting article called “Leave the Pope Alone” from the Daily Beast. The article deals with calls in some European quarters to prosecute Pope Benedict XVI. In it, the author deals with the inadequacies of the law in resolving things like the (very real) sex crime scandal occurring in Ireland and other [...] I posted this last year here on Threedonia: This is a very brief sermon — famous in some circles — by a now deceased Black preacher named S.M. Lockridge (from the old civil rights generation). It is set to music by this group. A good look at Good Friday from a different tradition. Share on Facebook |
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