Thankful Thursday: Sanchia A Callender
Thankful for the life my sister lived and the lives she touched while she was with us. Please donate to the Sanchia A Callender Memorial Fund to help us build on her legacy of helping others.
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Koran desecration may not have happened
La Shawn Barber has an extensive collection of links and trackbacks about this, Newsweek's rather weak apology, and the retraction. *************************************************************************** NPR is reporting this morning that the Newsweek story about desecration of the koran can't be authenticated. Still no comment though about the complete idiocy of rioting over a book. NPR audio will be online by 10:00 AM ET. See also Ramblings' Journal: " Newsweek lied, people died --Turk 182 " You have got to be kidding me Update: Baldilocks says , Note to those who are blowing the intentions of the “religious right” out of proportion: if Christians were to riot the next time some so-called artist puts a crucifix in a bucket full of urine , that would be religious extremism and then it would be time to worry about Christians. Wake me when it happens. (Hat tip The Anchoress )
Rise Up In The Darkness
The teenager who joked with me over physics and algebra homework tonight was 6 months old the morning of September 11, 2001. He spent that day like many other 6 month olds spend their days, exploring his world and being saved from his own curiosity by mom. That morning after I got tired of hauling him back from the edge of the bed he was intent on crawling over I took him downstairs to safer level terrain. I turned on the television to check the news like I did every morning back then. At first I was horrified by what I saw. One smoldering tower. Not long after, while all the reporters and newscasters were struggling to make sense of what they were seeing, one plane, another tower, and I was pissed. At that point I understood what was happening. Why did people think, and still think, that kind of wretchedness served their cause? I didn't care what the cause was. These were arrogant fools. But the news kept coming about just how wretched humanity had been to itself that day. The ...
It's great to see this school recognizing Eric for his accomplishments! Hopefully the university he chooses to attend will also focus on his abilities.
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