Ok this is a little weird – Richard Gere urging Palestinians to get out the vote? Response is underwhelming – many voters don’t know who is is, or why he would be stepping on their turf. They aren’t even sure who else but Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas) will run. TV Appeal by Richard Gere Perplexes Palestinians: Gaza soap factory worker Manar an-Naja told Reuters: “‘We don’t need the Americans’ intervention. We know who to elect. Not like them — they…
The Administration has facilitated and implicitly condoned torture under the legal advice and cover of Alberto Gonzales – and yet all I hear is that Gonzales is expected to be questioned vigorously and then confirmed. Basically he’s a boot-licking Bush loyalist back from days o Texas – just going to show that there is potential for both good and evil in all races, all backgrounds, all religions, yada yada. The most diverse Cabinet…. Bait n Switch puts the current issue…
Sent to me via email: “Somehow I felt this must be known to you.Jesus has sheep all over the whole world . . . In all types of faith . . .whichever was suitable with them . . . It is my belief that Satan will appear at any religion group that teaches Jesus . . . therefore the leaders of certain sects are blindly misleading Jesus’s sheep . . . . Jesus said unto me to tell all leaders…
I have been thinking about John Lennon this week. Here are some pithy quotes. Love is the answer, and you know that – for sure. War is Over…If You Want It. The concept of imagining no religion — not imagining no God, although you’re entitled to do that too – but imagining no denominations. Imagine that there’s no Catholic-Protestant, no Jew-Christian. Imagine that we revere Jesus Christ, Mohammed, Krishna, Milarepa, equally, or that we don’t have to worship any of…
Haven’t seen it on our news sites yet, but Iraqi Democrats Against Occupation claim that al-Zarqawi has been arrested in Bagouba by US Forces. The people of Falluja have “repeatedly accused US forces of using Zarqawi as a pretext to demolish a city of 300,000 in an attempt to quell its resistance to the occupation” but many in the Iraqi resistance oppose his methods and have distanced themselves from him. Will they find a new figurehead for the next city…