An article in Earth Times describes some Hindus in the Far East as “deeply shocked and concerned over the unscrupulous means of advertisement” exhibited on CafePress.com because some marketer there sells underwear with Hindu gods on it.
Here’s the good part….
…in the Google ads to the left of the article is one for “Lord Krishna ringtones”.
Parents everywhere are shocked that 16 year old Jamie Lynn Spears, perfect-girl star of Nickelodeon’s “Zoey 101″ and younger sister of “pop star” (whatever that means) Britney Spears, is pregnant.
‘Jamie Lynn told the US edition of OK! magazine: “It was a shock for both of us, so unexpected. I was in complete and total shock and so was he.’ (“OMG. How did that happen.”)
Oh, and so is her mother.
‘Her mother Lynne Spears says: “I didn’t believe it because Jamie Lynn’s always been so conscientious. She’s never late for her curfew. I was in shock. I mean, this is my 16-year-old baby.’
So shocked that she has to postpone the parenting book she was working on.
About the Senate report (referenced in yesterday’s post on this blog): “After a quick review of the report, Gore spokeswoman Kalee Kreider said 25 or 30 of the scientists may have received funding from Exxon Mobil Corp.”
So 7.5% of the scientists mentioned by that report “may” have received energy industry funding. Well I guess we can just dismiss the whole report then, hmm, Kalee?
U.S. Senate Report counters the claims made by the promoters of “man-made global warming fears” that the number of skeptical scientists is dwindling. If you’re at all swayed by claims that most prominent scientists believe in man-made global warming or man-made climate change, you ought to read this report.
A man shot two burglars. The Black Panther party came to the neighborhood to protest and call for the shooter’s prosecution. A huge neighborhood rally blocked the Black Panthers with shouts, motorcycle gunning, and signs. And shouts of…. ”USA! USA! USA!” Hello? What does that have to do with the situation?
“He shot burglars! He should be prosecuted!”
“Oh yeah? Well, I support the USA!”
“Oh, well, that changes everything!”
Oh, the irony. And in Houston too! (I really have no idea what that has to do with it, but for the sake of my TX friends I couldn’t resist.)
Here on National Review Online are some interesting responses to the Gillian Gibbons & Teddy Bear episode. Most of them are perceptive: it’s not about blasphemy.
Yesterday’s post reminded me of a conversation I had with a young lady in my high school classes my second year of teaching (at a local Christian school). She declared that she didn’t ever want to have children because it would keep her from becoming who she really was. I wrote this poem after that conversation. It’s obviously not about people who can’t have children — that’s from God — but about those who can but refuse, for selfish reasons.
Of Her Who Desired No Children
Before my years could multiply,
I chose to make their center me;
I saw I might be hindered by
My own fertility.
I felt the rise within me and
I knew I was a spring, and yet
I wished to feel no demand
From what I might beget.
I stopped the flow; I’d be a spring
Without it. Now I weep because
I didn’t know I killed the thing
That made me what I was.
I cannot, now my years have fled,
Say without tears, to any man,
That I have been a riverbed|
Where water never ran.
A fountain, lying deep in dust;
A channel by no current laved;
A ground that gives no harvest, just
The barrenness I’d craved.
For years I kept me blind, nor knew
What I had missed, or (what was worse)
That I had fallen victim to
My own eternal curse.
–Wes Callihan
May 1986
http://www.scholatutorials.org/thanksgivingamerica.html
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.
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