from Vishal Arora Religion News Service NEW DELHI (RNS) India plans to lend rare fragments of the Buddha’s bones to Sri Lanka for the 2,600th anniversary of Buddha’s Enlightenment in May, and some see it as part of India’s strategy to gain a regional edge over neighboring China. [...]
Archive for May, 2011
May 29th, 2011 - 8:09 am § in Misc.
Sunday Revelations: Iran arrests Bahais for heresy
from Egypt News: Monday 23 May 2011 : 10:40 PM Iran has arrested a “number” of Bahais for running an “online Bahai university” aimed at propagating their faith, the government-run Iran newspaper reported on Monday. ……The Iran newspaper report added that, “th[...]
May 29th, 2011 - 6:44 am § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS
Decapitated Head Of St. Vitalis, Patron Saint Of Genital Disease, To Be Sold At Auction The decapitated head of St. Vitalis of Assisi, the patron saint of genital diseases, will be auctioned off on May 29 and could net as much as $1700 U.S.[...]
Young Sean showed the same banter and all American love that Buffalo Bob and Howdy gave us back in those early and better days.
Once known as the child cowboy star “Howdy Doody” the now all grown up Ron Paul announced he is creating an exploratory committee for a presidential run. Representative Paul, still a cowboy from Texas even though his famous freckles are faded and the once red hair is now peppery g[...]
May 28th, 2011 - 9:58 am § in Uncategorized
Ave Challenge: Whoisit
1. dictator of Turkmanistan 2. best documented descendant of Ghengis Kahn 3. son Rev. Moon and unidentified western actress 4. inventor of early consumer computer 5. polish priest recently outed as a secret Jew.[...]
May 28th, 2011 - 9:20 am § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: Iran to nationalize its internet: Leaving the world behind.
BY CHRISTOPHER RHOADS AND FARNAZ FASSIHI, Wall Street Journal Iran is taking steps toward an aggressive new form of censorship: a so-called national Internet that could, in effect, disconnect Iranian cyberspace from the rest of the world. The leadership in Iran sees the project as a way to end the f[...]
May 27th, 2011 - 10:36 am § in Misc.
Gaddafi Countdown: Russia Joins The Chorus
(Reuters) – Russia believes Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi should quit and could help broker his departure, a senior Russian official said on Friday in an important boost to NATO powers bent on ending his 41-year rule. It was a striking change in tone from Kremlin criticism of Western air strik[...]
May 27th, 2011 - 8:24 am § in Misc.
North Korea: No news may be good news?
No news may be good news. For the past two years I have read the KCNA news feed. KCNA is the North Korean News Agency and the typical articel reads that Kim Il Jung has been asked by the Vatican ot asvise the Pope on birth contgrol or how Kim has provided shoes to all […][...]
May 27th, 2011 - 8:20 am § in Misc.
Academic Free Speech, Ranking the Universities
FIRE Names Seven Best Schools for Free Speech on ‘Huffington Post’ May 24, 2011 PHILADELPHIA, May 24, 2011—Today the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) commends the nation’s seven best colleges and universities for freedom of speech in an article by FIRE [...]
May 27th, 2011 - 7:17 am § in Misc.
Scientific Hype
from Elizabeth Armsstrong Moore at CNET Not long after creating a functioning rat lung in her lab, Yale University Professor of Anesthesiology and Biomedical Engineering Laura Nikalson is testing bioengineered human veins that could benefit some 500,000 patients a year who need to undergo vascular s[...]