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standards (Dec 20 2006 20:59 GMT) - S Korea & China Mandate Common Chargers, Data Cables. mrbill writes "Seems that South Korea and China have mandated Common Cell Phone chargers and data cables. No proprietary chargers and data cables any more. Must use USB for charging etc. |
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- NAZARETH VILLAGE, Israel (CNN) -- Two thousand years after Jesus walked the hills of the Galilee, a group of American and Israeli scholars have created Nazareth Village, the kind of first-century Hebrew town where Jesus grew up, in the very city where he was raised. |
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- At USA Today:These days, religion often gets a bad rap. It’s an arrogant face of war, division and blame. But that’s certainly not the only face of faith. For the beauty of what it can be, see what is happening Friday nights in Portland, Ore. |
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- From the Daily Bulletin: Ah, my neighborhood. Where, come the holidays, the secular and non-secular violently collide, like a nuclear-powered Santa sleigh smacking into the Tower of Babel. Taking a stroll around my block this time of year is like walking through a Christmas pageant sponsored by Underwriters Laboratories and co-produced by the 12 apostles and Rankin/Bass. |
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- At the Washington Post: Just before the curtain dropped on an otherwise uneventful opera, the grisly scene that everyone came to see finally transpired. The King of Crete pulled the severed head of the prophet Muhammad out of a sack and triumphantly placed it on a wooden chair, next to three decapitated deities. |
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- From Catholic News Service:After centuries of allowing themselves to grow apart, Roman Catholics and Greek Orthodox must seek forgiveness and learn to work together for the good of the world, said Pope Benedict XVI and Orthodox Archbishop Christodoulos of Athens and all Greece.The pope formally welcomed the primate of the Orthodox Church of Greece to the Vatican Dec. 14, solemnly signing with him a commitment to preaching the Gospel together and to working for full communion. |
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- From The Detroit News:The new Congress will, for the first time, include a Muslim, two Buddhists, more Jews than Episcopalians, and the highest-ranking Mormon in congressional history. |
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- dan1123 writes:Unprotected: A Campus Psychiatrist Reveals How Political Correctness in Her Profession Endangers Every Student,” “Dr. Anonymous” wrote that the extreme psychic distress suffered by so many college women that is mystifying educators and health professionals, is caused by the politically correct approval of rampant sexual promiscuity that characterizes college life. Dr. |
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- Spotted at npr.org:Book Explores Intellectual Power of William James by Jacki Lyden, All Things Considered, November 12, 2006 William James was an intellectual force of nature in 19th century America. Trained as a medical doctor, he saw links between the life sciences, psychology and philosophy, and was a seminal thinker on religion. Author Robert D. |
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- From the Jamaica Gleaner: The 'Star of Bethlehem' remains a powerful, yet mysterious, symbol of Christianity. However, the true identity of the 'Star' has baffled astronomers, historians, and theologians for over 2,000 years. Scholars continue to debate whether the 'Star' is a legend manufactured by early church members, or an authentic astronomical event that marked the coming of Christ. |
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- [S]ince the 1980s a number of fair-minded sociologists have produced a variety of enlightening studies about American conservative Protestants. Most of these studies reveal them to be a large, complicated, internally diverse, often inconsistent and ambivalent, and frequently misrepresented group—less extremist and unified than their cultural despisers normally assume them to be, and less coherent and exceptional than their own leaders might like them to be. Andrew Greeley and Michael Hout have now contributed to this literature a new and valuable book extending our sociological knowledge about American conservative Protestants.... Both authors know the U.S. |
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- The pResident who famously gives himself permission to ignore the law by issuing signing statements, has now let it be known that he has his own interpretation of the November election results. According to the Commander-in-the-Bubble, when the American people voted for the Democrats, they were telling Bush to spend more money, send more troops, do whatever it takes to achieve victory or win the |
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- More than nine out of ten Americans have had premarital sex, reports the Guttmacher Institute. Those of us who reside in the reality based sphere of America will not be surprised to learn that the War on Sex is going the same way as the War on Drugs. Marijuana is America's biggest cash crop, and 95 percent of Americans have had premarital sex. Unlike smoking pot, engaging in sex without a |
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- The Basics in Iraq By MAUREEN DOWD WASHINGTON: The only sects that may be more savage than Shiites and Sunnis are the Democratic feminist lawmakers representing Northern and Southern California. After Nancy Pelosi and Jane Harman had their final catfight about who would lead the House Intelligence Committee, aptly enough at the Four Seasons? hair salon in Georgetown, the new speaker passed over |
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- Today's New York Times has a story about the kid I wrote about yesterday. Before he was thrown into prison for the crime of "having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old girl at a New Year?s Eve party," Genarlow Wilson was "a football player, honor student and the first homecoming king at Douglas County High School." According to Genarlow Wilson's attorney, if the crime had been "intercourse |
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- via Progressive Daily Beacon Bush Politics Video News Iraq Dubya |
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- When a 17 year old gets sentenced to ten years in prison for having sex with a 15-year-old, I want to know what barbaric third world country we're talking about. That would be the U.S. of A. Leave it to a red state to take the crazed conservative abstinence only policy to new and insane depths. |
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- Video: Deny the Holy Spirit and Get a Free DVD [Scroll down for update: High School History Teacher Instructs Class: If You Reject Jesus, You Belong in Hell. The complaining student receives a death threat. |
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- Senator Hillary Clinton opposes a troop surge in Iraq, reports the AP. Senator Clinton also weighs in on the credibility of Bush. "I am not in favor of doing that unless it's part of a larger plan," Clinton said. "I am not in favor of sending more troops to continue what our men and women have been told to do with the government of Iraq pulling the rug out from under them when they actually |
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- FEMA's Renaissance Village No child left behind? File this one under the miserable failure called the U.S. Government never quits failing. . |
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- Snippets from today's Frank Rich column (full column link below) follow. It's all about penguins, lesbians, soy baby formula, Mary Cheney's 'unconscionable' pregnancy, 'the sanctity of marriage' and the hilarious homophobes who care. Rich suggests that Senator John McCain is not a homophobe, he just plays one on TV. In other words, McCain is just your average everyday political whore. Duh. |
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- Or, Bushes and Bonapartes Quote of the Year "Bush is the Napoleon of our age, trampling on whole peoples, a Jacobin Emperor mouthing the slogans of liberty and popular sovereignty while crushing and looting those he 'liberated.' And Kagan and Kristol (playing Talleyrand 1798) and Emperor Bush are readying a further slaughter of our US troops, 24,000 of whom have been killed or wounded, and of |
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- The leader of the free world is blocking the publication of a New York Times Op-ed authored by Middle East analyst Flynt Leverett. Mr. Leverett served under Bush on the National Security Council. The censored column criticizes the Decider's refusal to talk to Iran. No word yet on what Mr. |
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- Governor Bredsen is being criticized for sending out a Christmas card featuring the image of a Muslim woman. Horrors! Damn it! We only want Christians on our Christmas cards, as one rightwing blogger more or less put it. As if that's not bad enough, a spokesman for the Islamic Center of Nashville is displeased by the Governor's failure to properly cover up the woman's head. |
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- Someday A Woman (Feminist!) Will Be President The new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows a huge gender gap in support for Hillary Rodham Clinton as the next president of the United States. "Clinton receives significantly higher support among women than men (49 percent to 29 percent)." Yeah, a twenty-point gender gap is huge! And as Sam Rosenfeld over at TAPP points out, a gap this large |
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- By MAUREEN DOWD WASHINGTON: James Baker ran after W. with a butterfly net for a while, but it is now clear that the inmates are still running the asylum. The Defiant Ones came striding from the Pentagon yesterday, the troika of wayward warriors marching abreast in their dark suits and power ties. W. |
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- F**K Iraq -- Or Winnng Hearts and Minds Raw Story reports: In the brief, undated video at the site liveleak.com, a U.S. soldier appears atop a military vehicle as another mills about, directing the children to shout, "F*ck Iraq. |
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- A few years ago, Cathy Stanton -- a direct descendant of legendary feminist, Elizabeth Caddy Stanton -- joined with ten other women in Florida to sue for a woman's right to take off her shirt -- without being arrested. The women "sued for the simple right to remove their shirts when and where men enjoy the privilege." The plaintiffs included a 14 year old girl and the 63-year old |
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- Republicans and media vultures are already drooling and ready to break out the bubbly over the prospect of the new senate reverting back to GOP control. Nevermind that Senator Johnson is not dead yet. Washington Post: Sen. Tim Johnson (D-SD) "underwent emergency brain surgery overnight after falling ill at the Capitol and was in critical condition early this morning, introducing a note of |
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- Featuring some of Bush's more infamous moments, including the famed one middle finger salute. Funny! And very sad. via Sappho Manifesto Bush Video Bush Joke Bushism Politics News |
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- Think Progress reports that Press Secretary Tony Snow was "forced to acknowledge that the administration?s handling of Iraq has caused a 'crisis of confidence' in government: 'Whatever the discontent may be with the president, the level of confidence in Congress is even lower. And what you have is the sense of crisis of confidence in government.'" A USA Today/Gallup poll reports: |
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- Dedicado a todos aquellos que se van de vacaciones . “Piled Higher and Deeper” by Jorge Chamwww.phdcomics. |
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- Author: Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 2:25 am (GMT 5.5) nothing will be changed. |
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- Derde nederlaag Martinus in Champions League |
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- Real Madrid wildert weiter in Argentinien. Eine Woche nach der Verpflichtung von Gonzalo Higuain haben die "Kniglichen" Fernando Gago von den Boca Juniors geholt. Der Vertrag soll am Donnerstag unterschrieben werden. |
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- Filed under: RPGsBrace yourself for this one, folks: Square Enix is taking a successful franchise and furthering it with sequels galore. Kingdom Hearts producer Tetsuya Nomura told Famitsu that there will be multiple KH projects in the works, with announcements coming in 2007.We're not going to make any assumptions as to the future console of choice for Kingdom Hearts 3 (or whatever crafty subtitle they decide), especially after the Dragon Quest DS shuffle. |
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