Friday, February 28, 2003

HMCS Fredericton to sail

GOOD NEWS!
Canada has offered to help the U.S. in the war on terrorism! They have pledged 2 battleships, 6000 troops and 10 fighter jets.

THE BAD NEWS!
With the current exchange rate, that comes out to 2 canoes, a mountie and a couple of flying squirrels.

5 posted on 02/28/2003 1:20 PM PST by N. Theknow
Parents of sisters crushed by police SUV arrive from Paris

Beachgoers who witnessed the incident said the women were visible before the SUV trampled them.


The accident was at least the third incident in the past 10 years that a Miami Beach city vehicle ran over and seriously injured sunbathers.

In April 1999, another city vehicle ran over a pregnant woman on the beach at nearly the identical spot.

Sunday, February 23, 2003

CNN Poll Needs FREEPing! Is this a moral war?

"If your opponent has a conscience, then follow Gandhi and non-violence. But if your enemy has no conscience like Hitler, then follow Bonhoeffer"
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German university professor with a doctorate in theology, a Lutheran pastor, a participant in the early ecumenical movement, a prolific writer, and a central figure in the Protestant church struggle against Nazism. His participation in the plots to assassinate Adolf Hitler led to his arrest, imprisonment, and eventual death by hanging at Flossenburg concentration camp in 1945, at the age of 39.

Only after the war, as his work was disseminated around the world by Bonhoeffer's friend and biographer Eberhard Bethge, did the fresh pertinence of his ideas become clear. Though forged in the crucible of his struggle against Nazism, Bonhoeffer's striking notions of "religionless Christianity," costly grace, and direct religious engagement with political forces -- along with his own martyrdom -- have spoken directly to the situations of contemporary Christians.

Friday, February 07, 2003

Why I Became a Conservative: A British liberal discovers England's greatest philosopher.

According to the Gaullist vision, a nation is defined not by institutions or borders but by language, religion, and high culture; in times of turmoil and conquest it is those spiritual things that must be protected and reaffirmed.
Third-grader suspended for taking vitamin at school

Frighten a liberal, go to jail. It's the law.

12 posted on 01/30/2003 3:46 PM PST by VadeRetro