Monday, June 18, 2007

Headlines below the fold

NYTimes reports a major offensive in Iraq...Blogfather quotes Michael Yon as saying it's bigger than reported.
Remember the soldiers in your prayers...agnostics and athiests can pray "to whom it may concern"...

Personal note: I have a son in law in Iraq...

In the old days, teachers settled children down with a prayer and bible reading; now it's Tibetan gongs and Buddhist meditation techniques. What's wrong with this picture?
Meditation is self hypnosis, or deep concentration, something I used as a doctor for pain control...it has many pros and cons, including the problem that it opens the mind to suggestions. But as a scientist, my real worry is this line:

“If we can help children slow down and think,” Dr. Haick said, “they have the answers within themselves.”

Silly me, I thought kids were supposed to find answers in the library...

Bus bombing last week in the Philippines killed seven, but didn't get much attention...the Star thinks it's merely a new method of extortion from the NPA, but the FBI is checking the bomb to see if it's the NPA or the J.I./islamic terrorists behind the murders, since the NPA, like the Mafia, rarely kills bystanders.

And Finally, from Dustbury:

  • Iran's Foreign Minister has complained about the British government's conferring of knighthood on Salman Rushdie, author of the novel The Satanic Verses and several lesser-known works, two or three of which I've actually tried to read.
  • Said Mohammad Ali Hosseini:
  • Giving a medal to someone who is among the most detested figures in the Islamic community is ... a blatant example of the anti-Islamism of senior British officials. The measure that has taken place for paying tribute to this apostate and detested figure will definitely put British statesmen and officials at odds with Islamic societies, the emotions and sentiments of which have again been provoked.
  • In other news, Wile E. Coyote has filed yet another complaint with the state of New Mexico, objecting to the naming of the Roadrunner as the state bird in 1949.
And how was YOUR day?







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