News that will make you angry.

[theweaselking]

Swiss investigators find that US was keeping prisoners illegally in Eastern Europe, but shipped them all to North Africa ASAP when the news of the secret ex-Soviet gulags leaked.

In Kentucky, cops are cracking down on and jailing terminally ill elderly people for selling their prescriptions to addicts to buy food and pay heating bills.


Methodist minister and PhD Rev William E Alberts, on the true story of Christmas.

Saudi Prince brags that he picks up his phone and Fox News changes what they report and how they report it. - From WingNutDaily, who are more concerned that he had Fox stop using an unsubstantiated religious accusation than that Fox News openly changes their content based on what the owners want. Then again, this *is* the "News" station that fought in court to prove that deliberately falsifying news was not illegal.

Bush finally answers a direct question about Iraq - he figures there are 30,000 dead Iraqis, "more or less". Tom Paine covers all the different estimates of death totals.

Comments

[missysedai.livejournal.com]

His birth is not a once-a-year sentimental flight into fantasy (however precious fantasy is) but the thrusting into our society's midst every human being's right to his and her space, identity, belief, fulfillment. He came to set his oppressed Jewish people free from Roman occupation, which is why he was crucified.

He does not lead us to worship an infant in a manger, but to work for Rachel and her children's right to be and to belong and to become.

OK...DAMN!

It's not often you find a preacher who departs from the "Jesus died to take away your sins" line and injects some cold, hard sense into the picture. I think I like him.

[jerril]

I have to say, I approve strongly of his message.