Shooting the Terrorists the Bird … Etc

Amazing. There’s schools that are actually considering honouring the Muslim faith by allowing Friday prayers.

Anything! (But Christmas carols.)

Dawn Eden helps readers of the above linked site by posting a synopsis of Planned Parenthood’s, uh, services.

In case you missed it, James offers some awesome pics of the recent transference of the relics of Ss John Chrysostom and Gregory Nazianzen. And one of our own, Adib Farha, writes a note about it for The Economist.

The Tale of the Lazy Parent. I was going to post it in it’s entirety — but everyone knows folks tend to skip the long offerings. So, visit the Tale at your leisure — it’s worthwhile. Speaking of long ones … the recent article on Marriage by Elder Paisius is also a good read.

The following story came from Thursday’s, 12/2, World (but had no permalink):

Love bombing the Islamists

Thailand has a new strategy for battling their problem with Islamist terrorists. The population is being asked to fold origami birds (cranes that are symbols of peace and good luck) out of paper. The goal is to assemble 63 million of them, one for every member of the population. The Thai air force will then drop them on the country’s fractious Muslims in the southern part of the country, where terrorists have been bombing and killing. The Buddhist prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, head of the “Thais love Thais” party, believes this gesture will change the hearts of the terrorists and promote national unity.

Muslims, though, are reportedly condemning the birds as idols. Southerners are also complaining that this will just mean a lot of litter they will have to clean up. The Thais have been tough on terrorism, to the point that politic brutality has become one of the Muslims’ grievances. But might this extravagant act of niceness have an effect? Or is it a metaphor for the globally widespread naivete about dealing with the Islamist threat?

Commenting on the above story, Grace said: “As Dave Barry says, I am not making this up.”

As it turns out, Dave Barry mentions the story on his own blog.

Finally, for those 40-somethings reading this at work, Go Here.

Wacka, wacka, wacka, wacka …