Environmentalists criticize sea-based sonar testing program:
By IANTHIA SMITH, Guardian Staff Reporter -
Nassau, Bahamas:
Angry environmentalists are "crying shame" on the government for giving the go-ahead for a controversial sea-based testing program to carry out a second phase.
Just a year ago several environmental-friendly groups blasted the government for allowing international and loca
When The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints recently announced it would jump into California politics by supporting a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, many Mormons were appalled. (Continue Reading-Source/Religious Left)
So while I'm out and about in NYC, I pass a gentleman who hands me a flyer, obviously this happens to me about 20 times a day, but what caught my attention was what was on the front of said flyer. It was advertising a S-A-L-E at none other than the Louis Vuitton store in Brooklyn! What???? My mind starts racing, but I play it cool, because of course he's just a guy handing out flyers, he can't
Two nights ago, I was
disgusted when I saw what was on Soulcast’s Home page. Not on the first page
but on the home page, still the same. I was wondering weather I wanted to post
here anymore. Next day I saw Polars post SoulCast I am talking to you.
I saw many comments and I was
really surprised at the way some people seem to think. I thought most people,
yes the majority of people condemned the abuse of children and I thought most
of us did not want any paedophiles on Soulcast.
I thought this was the issue but many people seemed to think
differently.
I thought all that suggested
hurting children would not be welcome here. Someone talked about freedom of
expression.
There certainly is a freedom
of expression but there is also something called morals and
In her 6th State of the State Speech, Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano looked past Arizona’s looming billion dollar budget and focused on the future of the growing state. The Governor outlined five major areas including: education, economic development, public safety, transportation, and healthcare to focus on the future.The speech was met with some harsh criticism, some of the loudest coming from several drunken sailors who happened to catch the speech while in town on shore leave.“I’ve done me some crazy spending in my day,” slurred Pete Shuttlesworth, a grizzled sailor from a ship known as The Flying Carp, “And I can tell ye this. Her plans be too much in the face of such a large debt. This coming from a man who spent 50 gold pieces on this here tattoo.”Napolitano proposed
Birth control? For middle-schoolers? No, I mean for children? Seriously...I couldn't believe it either. Read about it here.So maybe they won't be getting pregnant, but will the government be paying for heath care from the diseases or the therapy from the emotional scars?I tell Mara all of the time, "Who's the mommy?", when she's trying to 'rule' her little sisters. Someone needs to tell the state of Maine, "Who's the mommy?" I'm praying that the parents in Maine take a stand and take back the God-given authority in their children's lives and in their homes.
KUALA LUMPUR: S. Manivanan’s death four years ago was described by the High Court yesterday as "very violent and unjustified". With this remark, Judicial Commissioner Lim Yee Lan sentenced three persons involved in the killing to seven years’ jail.But the victim’s mother S.M. Patmavathy, 51, was clearly dissatisfied. After court adjourned she approached the families of the accused and choking with emotion asked them several times: "Is this justice?"The family members had nothing to say.Divorcee Rabiah Basry Sultan, 35, who has a 9-year-old daughter, was living with Manivanan when the incident happened four years ago. When Rabiah found out that Manivanan was engaged to another, she decided "to teach him a lesson".She hired M. Jinaraj, 26, and I. Jay Kumar, 23, to chop off Manivanan’s legs, but the injuries led to his death.Jinaraj and Jay Kumar pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder.Jinaraj, a storekeeper and J
KUALA LUMPUR: S. Manivanan’s death four years ago was described by the High Court yesterday as "very violent and unjustified". With this remark, Judicial Commissioner Lim Yee Lan sentenced three persons involved in the killing to seven years’ jail.But the victim’s mother S.M. Patmavathy, 51, was clearly dissatisfied. After court adjourned she approached the families of the accused and choking with emotion asked them several times: "Is this justice?"The family members had nothing to say.Divorcee Rabiah Basry Sultan, 35, who has a 9-year-old daughter, was living with Manivanan when the incident happened four years ago. When Rabiah found out that Manivanan was engaged to another, she decided "to teach him a lesson".She hired M. Jinaraj, 26, and I. Jay Kumar, 23, to chop off Manivanan’s legs, but the injuries led to his death.Jinaraj and Jay Kumar pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder.Jinaraj, a storekeeper and J
I looked at the ICV2 sales chart for last month, and I see that Captain America #25 sold at least 290,000 copies. I will make clear, that issue did not deserve an audience, yet readers bought into the publicity and went for it anyway.In fact, nothing written by Brian Bendis deserves an audience either. That he may dislike some of the characters in the Avengers like Hawkeye, for example, indicates a serious problem with some of today's writers, that they allow their personal dislike of a character to get out of hand, and do bad things to them. (But also wrong is when the editors allow them to go too far with them.) So it's not only the problem with "hot" writers that needs to be dealt with, but also the problem with writers who let their personal biases dictate what they do with someone else's favorite characters.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards says Jesus would be appalled at how the United States has ignored the plight of the suffering, and that he believes children should have private time to pray at school.Edwards, in an interview with the Web site Beliefnet.com, said Jesus would be most upset with the selfishness of Americans and the country’s willingness to go to war “when it’s not necessary.”
“I think that Jesus would be disappointed in our ignoring the plight of those around us who are suffering and our focus on our own selfish short-term needs,” Edwards told the site. “I think he would be appalled, actually.”
Edwards also said he was against teacher-led prayers in public schools, but he added that “allowing time for children to pray for themselves, to themselves, I think is not only OK, I think it’s a good thing.”
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Jesus would be WHAT? How DARE John Edwards presume to tell
John Edwards, Democratic presidential candidate and recent target of Ann Coulter, said that Jesus would be appalled at how the United States is ignoring those who are suffering, and Edwards also believes that children should have time to pray in schools.
Edwards, in an interview with Beliefnet.com, said “I think that Jesus would be disappointed in our ignoring the plight of those around us who are suffering and our focus on our own selfish short-term needs,” and that “I think he would be appalled, actually.”
John Edwards also said that he thinks Jesus would be upset with the United States’ willingness to go to a war that he thinks is not necessary. However, Edwards has cited religion before as part of his political stance and believes that it is a good thing.
On the issue of prayer in school, however, Edwards doesn’t believe in teacher led prayer, but that “allowing time for children to pray for themselves, to themselves, I think is not only
