Something's rotten in Alaska, namely the election results.
Security forces in Natanz, Iran, have arrested two suspected "spy pigeons" near the country's controversial uranium enrichment facility, the Etemad Melli newspaper reported. "Early this month, a black pigeon was caught bearing a blue-coated metal ring, with invisible strings," a source told the paper.
A writer for The Atlantic was able to breeze through airport security with obviously suspicious items, including a Hezbollah flag, "Osama: Hero of Islam" T-shirt and fake boarding passes. "Airport security in America is a sham -- "security theater" -- designed to make travelers feel better and catch stupid terrorists," Jeffrey Goldberg writes.
A local Republican party website in Sacramento, CA called for Barack Obama to be waterboarded -- that is until the local newspaper picked up the story. By Tuesday night, much of the questionable material -- which ranged from depicting Obama in a turban to attacking Michelle Obama -- had been removed.
A Gibsonville, N.C., parking lot owner has enacted a new rule for his business: No parking if you have a Barack Obama sticker on your car.
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"Unfortunately for the world, Christianity is like an all you can eat buffet religion - pile up on the roast beef, mac and cheese, mashed potatoes, and cheesecake, and skip the salad bar, broccoli, asparagus, and carrots. It's impossible for most Christians to follow all of Jesus' teachings, or even many of them, so they pick and choose the ones that suit them best. Elsewhere in Matthew 6, Jesus says not to pray with repetitions as the pagans do, as his father heard you the first time."
True enough, true enough. I just point out the relevant passages and hopefully engage some thoughtfulness in the other side, but I don't know if I'm well read enough to get involved in a scripture quote war over a faith I'm not a part of.