10,000+ people have died in France from the heat. For comparison, from 1979 to 1995 2792 people died in the US because of hot weather. I can see maybe a couple dozen people dying, I mean your always going to have your elderly hermits who never leave their houses, but 10,000 people? That's just baffling.
...I'm not taking Israel's side either. There won't be peace in Israel until both the Israeli and Palestinian governments have the cajones to work together to eliminate the militants. Israel should have brought the Palestinians in on killing the Hamas leaders.
You know, it's really hard to take the Palestinian militants seriously when they go and quit the cease-fire because Israel retaliated after the militants broke the cease-fire. They've got a funny definition of keeping the cease-fire if it allows for suicide bombings of city busses.
Reports say 10 dead, 32 wounded.
Well, "hate America" is really too strong, but he certainly seems to be against the Iraq war. A far cry from the days when he was steadfastly on the side of the Allies in WWII.
He certainly managed to keep it close to his chest.
From The Corner:
RE: BISHOP ROBINSON [John Derbyshire]
I don't want to bang on about this too much, but I am in a state of black despair about this whole miserable business. Look: I'm an Anglican. I know the hymns and liturgy, I know the history. I grew up with it all. I go into an Episcopalian church as one going to a refuge from noise and money and the damn fool Zeitgeist. I go looking for eternal truth, and expecting to find it. If this church that I grew up with is going to be a club for homosexuals, turning its teachings upside down to accommodate every passing social fad, 'celebrating' the 'gay' ethos, what is there in it for normal people like me? But now where shall I go? The Roman Catholic church is headed the same way--half the priests are queer already, people tell me. I get e-mails--a surprising number--from people who have left the western Catholic churches and found a spiritual home among the Orthodox. Well, I'm open to the suggestion; but why, in my fifties, should I have to give up the devotional habits of a lifetime? Just losing the hymns would break my heart. And in any case, the Orthodox priesthood, with all those bright vestments and ministrational hierarchies, is going to be just as appealing to homosexuals as the Catholic churches have proved, and will sooner or later go the same way. We have let something loose in our society, and it won't rest until it has occupied the commanding heights and forcibly shut the mouths of all who object--bigots! homophobes! haters! I have never liked homosexuality, nor tried to hide that fact; but all my life I have supported tolerance towards homosexuals as a harmless minority who are just as entitled to pursue their private inclinations as the rest of us. I have always thought that the criminalization of homosexual acts was both foolish, and inhumane, and un-Christian. I am no longer so sure. Perhaps our grandfathers were wiser than us. Perhaps there are some things that we, the normal majority, SHOULD, deliberately and consciously, disapprove and marginalize. But what hope of that now? The toothpaste is out of the tube. To the catacombs!
Posted at 11:20 AM
Sure, those "queers" or fine as long as they're not invading our churches... yeah... *sigh*
Putting the show ahead of the Senate.
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