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A genius, a very troubled man: Bobby Fischer, dead at 64.

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Video: The Bhutto Shooting

[H/T: lgf]

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A thoughtpiece from the American Thinker that will have you pondering some of the rhetoric about Gitmo: Go Directly To Jihad, Do Not Pass Gitmo

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Led Zeppelin: Rock Gods
Would’ve been nifty to have been there.
Very nifty.
Think I’ll go watch “School of Rock” now.

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Worshipping the Demon-god Molech

What happens when you depart from truth. You can no longer make rational conclusions.
Meet the women who won’t have babies - because they’re not eco friendly.
Had Toni Vernelli gone ahead with her pregnancy ten years ago, she would know at first hand what it is like to cradle her own baby, to have a [...]

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Good News in Iraq Three-fer

Militant Group Is Out of Baghdad, U.S. Says - New York Times
First Sunni-Shia ‘fatwa against violence’ to be signed in Iraq -Times Online
Officials Cite Return Of Iraqis to Baghdad As Violence Declines - washingtonpost.com

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Madeleine L’Engle: RIP

Madeleine L’Engle, Children’s Writer, Is Dead

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Reefer Madness

Smoking just one cannabis joint raises danger of mental illness by 40%
A single joint of cannabis raises the risk of schizophrenia by more than 40 per cent, a disturbing study warns.
The Government-commissioned report has also found that taking the drug regularly more than doubles the risk of serious mental illness.
Overall, cannabis could be to blame [...]

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Ruth Bell Graham: RIP

I somehow missed this last week: Ruth Bell Graham died last Thursday at home with her husband, the evangelist Billy Graham, and her children at her side.
Some curious tidbits from the article:
Ruth Graham had been bedridden for months with degenerative osteoarthritis of the back and neck - the result of a serious fall from a [...]

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Franks’ What’s the Matter with Kansas? notwithstanding, ya know ya just cain’t put nothin’ past a Kansan:
While Democratic Gov. Kathleen Sebelius and the Bush administration jaw back-and-forth over the relief efforts for Greensburg, Kan., the town devastated by Friday night’s F-5 tornado, town residents have chimed in and say they couldn’t be any happier with [...]

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And so, to that end, go read this interview with James Cameron: An Exclusive Interview with James Cameron
And then go check out this informational report on other items found with the Jesus Jr ossuary: Cameron Finds Christ!

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So, apparently, a bit more than two decades ago, archaeologists found ossuaries that had the names of Mariamne and Judah Son of Jesus on them. Given that these names were incredibly common in first century Israel, this find was pretty much a yawner.
But hey, what’s a little scientific and historical fact when you have [...]

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Oh, wait. That wasn’t a group of Christians.
It was members from that peaceful religion that means no one any harm.
And then there’s those fundamentalist types who berate school girls for getting abortions.
On, no, wait, wrong again.
It’s those peaceful religion types who are beheading school girls. Kinda makes you wish that all it was [...]

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So says Muslim commentator, Magdi Allam [h/t: Ponty]:
The Pope’s words, while quoting the Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Paleologus, about the expansion of Islam through the sword, either at Muhammed’s times inside the Arabian Peninsula and after his death outside it (with some exceptions), underline an undeniable historical truth. The Quran itself states it; furthermore, the [...]

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