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The Queen and Prince Philip celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary on Monday with a jubilant service at Westminster Abbey. The royal couple were married in this same cathedral on 20 November 1947. And I must say, they looked remarkably convincing as a (still) happily-married couple 60 years later…. Therefore, whatever one thinks of the dysfunction… Read more.
Generals are complaining that they do not have enough troops to execute their missions; volunteers are being forced to endure extended tours of duty; and recruitment is so anemic that the military is lowering its (physical and educational) standards for enlistment to fill its ranks – trying to make lean, mean fighting machines of 42-year-old… Read more.
Reports are that thousands of people were killed and millions more dislocated when Cyclone Sidr devastated Bangladesh last week. And relief agencies fear that thousands remain unaccounted for…. Rather puts the horrors of Hurricane Katrina and the California fires in perspective doesn’t it…? But since it’s not wise to question why, how or where Mother… Read more.
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The other shoe that finally dropped in the world of sports yesterday was the wholly-anticlimactic announcement that Baseball’s home-run king, Barry bonds, has been indicted. In fact, a federal grand jury in San Francisco has charged him with four counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice stemming from his patently false testimony… Read more.
When Gov. Sonny Perdue (pictured here with his wife Mary) led his state in prayer for rain on Tuesday, people around the country reacted with sympathy and ridicule in equal measure. Meanwhile, it hasn’t rained in Georgia for months. And things are getting so parched there that water use is being strictly controlled. In fact,… Read more.
I’m not a fan of his hip-hop music and think even less of his wannabe gansta persona. But I feel genuine sympathy for Kanye West as he grieves over the sudden and incomprehensible death of his beloved mother on Saturday night. She was only 58. Of course, like most people, I knew virtually nothing about… Read more.
I take admittedly perverse delight in the public exasperation European leaders have been expressing lately over the failure of their former colonies in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP) to sign adhesive Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs). Never mind that these agreements – as drafted – smack of little more than neo-colonial mercantilism. But, notwithstanding… Read more.
NOTE: Today is the Veterans Day holiday, but the official day of remembrance was yesterday, 11/11. Related Articles:Veterans Day 2006 Veterans Day Read more.
Which begs the obvious question: Why not pray for an avenger of Judeo-Christian dogma instead of looking to an infidel like Giuliani to do the Lord’s work? Although, perhaps Robertson is calling upon the “Judeo” part of his Christian faith, which proselytizes the code of Lex Talionis, namely: an eye for an eye, fight fire… Read more.
