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Back to the US of A

July 18, 2006

Sorry there’ve been no posts recently, I’ve been quite busy preparing and packing and such stuff for my upcoming trip to the USA. At this time tomorrow I will be in Newark, and a few hours after that I’ll be in NOVA (northern Virginia). Hopefully there will be no accidents or terrorist attacks involving Continental [...]

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Reincarnated Monkey God Roaming India?

June 30, 2006

From Dilbert.Blog by Scott Adams: 13-inch tail After my recent post, a reader alerted me to the true story of a man in India who was born with a 13-inch tail. People think he’s a reincarnation of the Hindu monkey god Hanuman. The man claims that people are cured of severe ailments when they touch [...]

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In my continuing support of the “War Against Christmas”

December 27, 2005

Here are some excerpts from the Dec 7 The Daily Show with Jon Stewart as posted on Media Matters for America (see the whole article here) : O’REILLY [video clip of December 2 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor]: Predictably, the opponents of public displays of Christmas continue to put forth counter-arguments on ‘Secular [...]

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Interesting facts about Christmas that Christian fundamentalists don’t seem to be aware of

December 16, 2005

For all those people arguing that Christmas has always been celebrated in the US: Franklin Pierce was the first president to have a Christmas tree in the White House Ulysses S. Grant declared Christmas to be a federal holiday in 1870 Because of it’s pagan origins, Puritans condemned the celebration of Christmas and the celebration [...]

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Maybe what we need is another civil war…

August 1, 2005

This weird thought popped into my head this morning, what if the last election was so heated that the Kerry supporters and Bush supporters went to war? I wonder who would’ve won? On one side, the Bush guys are religious fanatics, so they would fight super-hard, feeling God was on their side and the Kerry [...]

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Ratzinger, er, I mean, Pope Benedict XVI

April 19, 2005

Well, I have to say I was surprised with today’s developments. I really wasn’t expecting the election of the Pope until the end of the week. I also hadn’t expected that Ratzinger would win. He seemed more of a Pope-Maker than a Pope. My hope was that the Cardinal of Vienna would be elected. I [...]

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German News

April 1, 2005

Recent news here has been dominated by Terry Schiavo and the Pope. From Der Spiegel’s English website summarizing German papers: Die Tageszeitung: The extreme politicization of her case and enormous media attention ensured that she wasn’t able to die in peace. Worse yet, she couldn’t control her own death. “Instead, her husband, her parents, attorneys, [...]

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