THE OTHER SHOE DROPS: Updates To Previous Posts
† Is This Why We Fight? (second item): During Sunday Mass in Mosul, Iraq, Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho, would routinely turn the entire take from the collection plate to a man who had threatened to kill him and his entire congregation. As the
It’s routine for Iraqi Christians to pay money to Islamofascist thugs, according to The Times:
Yonadam Kanna, a Christian lawmaker in
Since the time of the Prophet Muhammad, the founder of Islam, Muslims in the
Officials say the demands could be hundreds of dollars a month per male member of a household. In many cases, Christian families drained their life savings and went into debt to make the payments. Insurgents also raised money by kidnapping priests. The ransoms, often paid by the congregations, typically ran as high as $150,000, several priests and lay Christians said.
“Anytime the Western countries go to war in the
Ms. Malek-Yonan, who testified on the issue of Christians’ safety in
In addition to paying protection money to insurgents, in many parts of
The Christian population of
† Updates To Previous Posts (Are Muslims Required To Kill To Worship Allah?, fourth item): Unlike Brigit Bardot, a celebrity who has courageously – and at great personal cost - taken on Muslims in France who subject animals to horrific ritualistic slaughter, the cavilling cowards at PETA have now decided to harass singer Jessica Simpson over wearing a T-shirt with the slogan “Real Girls Eat Meat,” reports The Sunday Independent (London).
PETA spokesperson Alistair Currie tells the paper: “Jessica Simpson might have a right to wear what she wants, but she doesn't have a right to eat what she wants – eating meat is about suffering and death.” Oh, really? She doesn’t have the right to eat meat? What planet is Currie living on?
As with the campaign to shove biased climate change dogma down the throats of the Brits (second item), they are resisting do-gooders like McCartney, whose “Meat Free Mondays” is trying to get carnivores to go vegetarian once a week. The Independent notes: “Despite the cost of meat hitting a 22-year high, British supermarkets actually report a rise in sales.”
† The Sum For The Parts: The ringleader of a body parts trafficking ring involving funeral homes in NY, PA and NJ, Michael Mastromarino, 44,has been sentenced to 18 to 54 years in prison, reports The Associated Press. Through his company, Biomedical Tissue Services, the former oral surgeon, stole tissues for such procedures as cornea transplants, dental implants and knee and hip replacements, without screening for hepatitis and other infectious disease. It is believed that some 10,000 people received parts supplied by BTS.
† Updates To Previous Posts (Après Spitzer, second item): Darren Dopp, communications director for former NY governor Eliot Spitzer (D), testified several times before the Commission on Public Integrity about the governor’s efforts to gather details of trips taken by Joseph Bruno, then the state’s Senate majority leader, but tells The New York Times that he soon got the idea that “they were convinced by someone that it was all my fault, and they aren’t backing off that notion.” He adds, “If I have to fight, I will. I want to clear my name,” and is “refusing to reach a settlement with the ethics commission …and would contest its allegations if it opens a formal public inquiry in the months ahead.” Meanwhile Bruno, who was in Spitzer’s crosshairs, has retired. Just think, Spitzer could have waited him out instead of trying to steamroller over him – and creating a scandal that has already cost one man his life and may cost another his reputation.
† Updates To Previous Posts (How Did We Get From A Knowledge Economy To An Unskilled And Illiterate Economy?, third item): Washington Post columnist George Will argues that U.S. immigration policy should favor “highly educated people,” and that “[a] nation cannot have too many such people, so send us your PhDs yearning to be free.” But no: “As soon as
Meanwhile, the Chamber of Commerce and businesses file suits to thwart all federal efforts to stop hundreds of thousands of barely literate, low-skilled illegals and their extended families crossing our borders without any government agency knowing when, where and who.
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