bookmarked for later perusal

Funeral is over, I am still suffering from time shift problems (delayed jet lag) so have trouble concentrating despite the nice brewed coffee one can get in the USA...

. Robin is coming tomorrow with CousinMaddie and gifts...will then decide if I need a new suitcase to pack them all.

so I am bookmarking link

bookmarked for later watching: Mgt Thatcher's funeral service.

AndrewMalcolm's take here.

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 DonaldSensing puts on his pastor's hat and analyzes the resurrection and the anti rational aspects of scientism.

full rant moved to rantblog.

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The world has stopped getting warm over the last few years, but the latest WAGD article insists the late 20th century is the warmest the earth has been in the last 1400 years.

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in our prayers: Sichuan earthquake victims.

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The "art bell was right" headline of the day:


Researchers use Moore's Law to calculate that life began before Earth existed

or maybe they need to throw out that "law" as being wrong.

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LegalInsurrectionBlog tries to detangle all the information/misinformation on the Boston terrorists.


and ironically, this report on ICU nurses caring for the casulaties has this ironic factoid:

She is angry and doesn't think she could take care of Tsarnaev, who is a patient at another hospital, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center: "I don't have any words for him."

 So he is cared for in a hospital with Methodist and Jewish roots.

AlJazeerah's take here. 
ethnic slurs are not new in America.
Did I ever tell you the story of how the cops questioned my grandfather for singing German folksongs during World War I?

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