Intensive Purposes

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Red Flag of the Month 

I’m going to start posting tidbids i see in the news that, in my opinion, encourage further investigation into the situations they refer too.

From Haaretz discussing the settlements in Palestine land.

The suburban-style settler houses with red roofs, white walls and neat gardens contrast with the close-packed cinderblock buildings that are home to most of the 1.3 million Palestinians on the other side of the Strip’s barbed wire.

Here is the entire article.



Christians and Math 

Back in 2000 he (Mahatma Gandhi) topped a BBC News Online poll as the greatest man of the past 1,000 years, pushing Leonardo da Vinci and Jesus Christ into second and third respectively.

does anybody see the problem with #3 there? Damn zealots.

from a story about India’s recent elections.



A word to the wise 

If your shadow doesn’t move its probably just a stain on the rug.



Quote of the Month 

“With which country?”

— George W. Bush

when asked about his plans for war.