ramblings & shenanigans
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According to a CNN.com article, an American woman wrote to President Obama asking for his help in resolving her husband’s immigration problem. The hubby’s bid for political asylum had been denied a decade ago, and the man has been dodging immigration authorities since then, remaining in the country illegally. The guy has not been sitting [...]
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The daily influx of emails from some of my more Fox News-oriented friends revealed a couple of real gems. Apparently no one does any fact-checking whatsoever these days; people are happy to forward any politically motivated chain letter so long as it coincides with their own political leanings. First on our list is this picture [...]
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Blog bloggety blog. I’m sure there are few things more boring than reading a blogger write about blogging (unless you’re a blogger yourself), but here goes anyway. A couple of weeks ago I noticed that a blogger whose blog I like to blog – err, read – had added me to his blogroll. A blogroll [...]
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Honestly, take a time machine back to a few days before the story about Obama getting the Prize broke and take a street poll among regular Americans asking them to name ONE PERSON who has previously won a Nobel Peace Prize. Nobody on this side of the Atlantic gave a damn who the Norwegians were [...]
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Being able to visit the ruins of Pompeii via Google Maps’ street view is pretty exciting. Follow this link and click on Street View.
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Sarah Palin just doesn’t know when to give up. Sitting down for an interview with Rusty Humphries, a conservative radio host – obviously, since Palin doesn’t sit down with liberal ones – she validated the “birther” movement by saying that “the public rightfully is still making it an issue.” She went on to say that [...]
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Patrick Phillips wrote in his blog about a California man who has proposed a ban on divorce. In his post, and in the comments, he talked about the same-sex marriage debate, and “civil unions.” I wrote the following in response to his post, and I am copying it here because I’ve often written in my [...]
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Most things about the Internet are great for the mind if not necessarily for the soul. Vast amounts of knowledge right at your fingertips. Even the worst speller can turn out decent writing with the aid of online dictionaries, spellcheckers, and various other tools. There are news, conversations, debates, and dozens of ways to participate [...]
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I’ve been a big Star Trek fan ever since I watched the Original Series re-runs as a kid. There is something to be said about great stories: they don’t need to wrapped in a lot of hi-tech special effects in order for them to work well. The original series has been released on DVD before, [...]
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Mika Salakka is a Finn living in the United States. He is a nursing assistant, a creative writer, a devoted husband, and an observer of the human condition. His interests range from music and literature to psychology, sociology, medicine, technology, and spirituality.
Mosque Building Plan At 9/11 Site Is Not The Best Of Ideas
July 16, 2010
in Commentary,Equality,Society & Culture
Someone has had a great idea: let’s build a 13-story mosque 600 yards from “Ground Zero” at the World Trade Center in New York City. The keg of worms opened up by this proposal had to have been foreseen, yet the project was launched anyway. I don’t really care to argue or reiterate the points [...]
Tagged as: 9/11, bigotry, injustice, Islam, prejudice, racism, religion, Society, terrorism
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