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96 year old near blind vet gets punished

Wed, 14 May 2008 18:49:11 GMT

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clipper's remarks: from article:

Mr Woodward, who lives alone following the death of his wife Hilda three years ago, said: "I'm very sorry it happened. It's just I'm confused. I don't know which bin is which so I put the wrong things in the wrong bin.

Clip Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

War veteran, 96, has rubbish uncollected for two weeks for 'crime' of putting two jars in wrong bin

A council refused to collect rubbish from a 95-year-old war veteran who is nearly blind - because he put a ketchup bottle in the wrong bin.

Lenny Woodward, a former Desert Rat who has lived in the same house for 58 years, was confused by a new regime of fortnightly collections and rigid recycling rules.

Residents have a blue wheelie bin for cans and cardboard, a green box for glass and a black bin for other waste.

Mr Woodward made the mistake of putting the ketchup bottle and a coffee jar in the blue bin when they should have gone in the green box.

Great-grandfather Lenny Woodward was snubbed by binmen who refused to empty his recycling wheelie bin

When binmen inspected the blue bin, they refused to empty it and attached a tag to it warning him not to break the rules again.

Tags: nice going there! britian, eldery people, vets, idiocy

Neuro-Mysticism

Wed, 14 May 2008 13:21:52 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I love this kinda material, just fascinating...

Clip Source: www.theness.com

Writing in today’s New York Times, columnist David Brooks discusses the relationship between neuroscience and mysticism - saying that in the future the debate will center around a concept that he calls “neural Buddhism”. He says he is not taking sides, just pointing out that this is where the real debate is going to happen. Well - let the debate begin.

First I want to point out that I read David Brooks regularly because I find his style to be very rational, educated, and thoughtful. He is one of those writers who is worth reading regardless of your political ideology. I particularly enjoy those articles in which he takes a step back and looks at the current political topics of discussion in the context of broader cultural trends. That is indeed what he is attempting to do in this article. Although he is clearly well-read on this topic, I think he has misinterpreted the implications of current neuroscience.

Tags: skeptics, neurscience, mysticism, religion, faith and the future

Hagee apologizes

Wed, 14 May 2008 13:05:42 GMT

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clipper's remarks: lol, I guess when the pressure is on...apology is easy

Clip Source: uk.reuters.com

Pastor who backed McCain apologizes for remarks

SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - A Texas evangelical leader who endorsed Republican presidential candidate John McCain earlier this year has apologized for anti-Catholic remarks that angered Church members and embarrassed McCain's campaign.

John Hagee, pastor of the 19,000-member Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, wrote a letter of apology to the Catholic League on Monday for comments in which he called the Church "apostate" and likened it to the "great whore" in a passage of the Bible.

Hagee's comments, which circulated on the Internet, drew comparisons with the controversy surrounding Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama over statements by his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

McCain, who accepted Hagee's endorsement before the Texas primary in March, had faced a call by Catholic League President William Donohue to repudiate the pastor, who, he said, had "a history of denigrating the Catholic religion."

Tags: religion, christianity, pastor hagee, john mccain

Radical Islam over-running the streets of London

Wed, 14 May 2008 10:20:09 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Shocking.Scary. Insane.

Watch the British Police be surrounded by a fundie-mental mob.

From comments:

In 2006, the UN issued Security Briefing #4776 in which it named Islam as the greatest obstacle to a global peace accord. In the report, they noted that "Islam seems incapable of separating itself from the severe abuse of women" and that Muslims "harbor an innate predisposition to extreme violence and close-minded prejudice.

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Tags: islam, insanity, britainistan in the making