Found a great article about the hysteria that we had last year in the wake of the hurricanes last summer. Remember all the hype saying it was all because of global warming and that this summer would be worse? Turns out that the predictions were wrong, so were the reports that there are more happening in recent years that any time in the past. Anyway, this article is a good read.
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Forget those petty issues of the spiritual needs of the world, or even poverty, disease or war, these guys are looking at the big picture, the things that will matter for eternity!
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Canadian Press
“The United Church of Canada plans to ask its members to stop buying bottled water….
…“The main thrust is our concern about the privatization of water,” Richard Chambers, the church’s social policy co-ordinator, said Friday from Thunder Bay.
“The United Church is committed to supporting municipal water sources wherever they exist in the country and strengthening those.”
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20060818/bottled_water
Finally, a church with convictions, one with a strong moral stand, a church that is doing something!!
That is what Canada needs!
That and more snow in the summer.
Heard about the photo fraud in Lebanon?? It is where a few “news journalists” have taken liberties with the photos that they present as truthful images of the war to make things look worse or more dramatic. See a slideshow of some of the photos here.
My brother-in-law found a recent speech by British PM Tony Blair who had some very insightful observations about the problems in the Middle East. Give it a read.
It really annoys me to hear about the government of France condemning Israel for their attacks in Lebanon.
It is very easy for them to say such things as they sit in their relative security. They are not the victims of nearly daily terrorist attacks and rocket attacks from both within their border and from another nation. They don’t have their civilians being killed by those who want every single citizen of their nation to die. How easy for them to condemn Israel.
What would the French Government do if they were surrounded by nations that wanted to destroy them? Oh that’s right.. they pandered to those who wanted to invade until they finally were overrun by aggressive enemy armies. One big difference between Nazi Germany and Hizbullah, Islamic Jihad, Iran, Hamas, etc, etc, etc, is that they don’t merely want to occupy their land, strip it of resources and subjugate their people. They want to exterminate the Jews. Well, unlike the government of France, Israel has a backbone and they are fighting for their very existence, and they won’t take France’s lead on this.
Perhaps the French government needs to remember some recent history.. the history of hundreds of thousands of foreign troops dying on their soil to help liberate them.
Maybe France is just mad because they lost the World Cup (and just about every other international thing they get involved in).
Maybe France’s politians should just keep quiet and go back to their pompous self-obsession.
end rant.