The NYTimes admits
HIV is spread by immoral behavior. Of course, it's not mentioned until the last paragraph...
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Mayor Nutter pulls a Cosby...
sounds more like
Mayor Rizzo every day.
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The London riots were mainly by youths of a certain minority, but someone finally noticed
the pious Muslims and Sikhs who tried to keep their neighborhoods safe from thugs. and tried to stop their own youths from revenge.
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Our tax dollars at work. The modern "make a headline by blaspheming Jesus" trend hit the Philippines, and the
day of penance against the blasphemy is scheduled for August 26.
but no one has the courage to whisper: it's not art, and it's not even original....
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WYD draws a million youths...and a total of 133 stories on google news.
Most of the stories are about the protests of course, not why a million youths decided to attend, but the usually
anti Catholic UK Guardian is more balanced than the US papers in this matter...
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The US is pressuring PNoy to make peace with the MILF, who want their own state of Sharia, never mind that there are a lot of Christians and indigenous living there who don't want this.
the "hell freezes over" par is that it is not the US or the church but the
communists (who represent the poor Christians and indigenous locals) who are protesting this US interference with Philippine internal affairs.
Background, the populist Erap, who gave guns to the Christian villagers to defend themselves against attack when he was president, is also warning the gov't from going to far. The dirty little secret is that if the Muslims get their own state, the Christians will lose their civil rights and one doubts if their villages are attacked they will be defended.
But it's not about religion: it's about who controls the money. If they get their own state, the clan leaders can steal all the money for development, whereas if the gov't does it, the gov't officials will steal some, but probably a smaller amount, and the work will actually get done.
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Southern Living has a series of articles about neighbors helping each other after a tornado destroyed their town.
...the same geography that left us in the path of this destruction also created, across generations, a way of life that would not come to pieces inside that storm, nailed together from old-fashioned things like human kindness, courage, utter selflessness, and, yes, defiance, even standing inside a roofless house.
As Southerners, we know that a man with a chain saw is worth 10 with a clipboard, that there is no hurt in this world, even in the storm of the century, that cannot be comforted with a casserole, and that faith, in the hereafter or in neighbors who help you through the here and now, cannot be knocked down.
The goodness in America is rarely mentioned in our media...
headsup
TeaAtTrianon.
