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StrategyPage has an update about cyberwar...of course, cyberwars work both ways
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This article on the LDS church discusses how the press fails to point out why they have a work ethic.
But the reason I am linking it is this comment:
Yes.
Darren Blair says:
What few non-Mormons understand is the fact that in the early days of the church, “being a professional welfare recipient” was *not* an option.
The church quite literally had to terraform just about everywhere it settled in order to make the place livable. In fact, Nauvoo was originally a swamp and the Salt Lake valley had been forsaken by all but a handful of Native American bands. Every last warm body was needed to get the job done, and so if a person was physically & mentally capable they had a job to do.
I always like OSCard's post-apocolyptic stories that imagined the US in chaos, but Deseret as an oasis of peace. Theocracy? Yes,
but how many going to California gold rushes stayed alive by chosing to stay in SLC instead of ending up like the Donner Party....and it might raise eyebrows among bigots that the large Catholic cathedral is up the street from the Temple, or that Young welcomed the nuns starting a hospital for local gentile miners.
and yes, there are mosques down the street from the Temple too... most came as students in the last 40 years, but many are Bosnian or Somali refugees...
ironically, the LDS are not considered "People of the book"...because like the Bahais they are a "new" religion. In contrast, despite persecutions, most Muslims accept the Zorastrian religion as people of the book, because they are monotheistic and old...
And although one hopes that someone will clue President Ahmadinejad about the "Mountain Meadow Massacre" to prove those nice men neatly dressed suits can be quite lethal...
or better yet, clue in the Mullahs, since President A is already in trouble with the guys who actually run the government because he is trying to stop them from stealing everything in sight...
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Well, Michelle only has girls. When I had boys, often I would come home and find the huge pot of stew or leftovers that I had prepared for supper had already been eaten by my sons and their friends...and often missing were the frozen corndogs, bread, lunch meats, and ramen noodle packages.
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