We have liberated Afghanistan from the Taliban, they told us. But the reality is very different. Like this press release by Amnesty International explains, the Taliban have increased their attacks against civilians, killing them, burning schools and abducting workers.
I was against the war in Afghanistan in the first place, but if you are going to fight a war, then you have to do it with all you have – and the United States has basically abandoned Afghanistan to its fate – the Taliban – once it got tired of it. And people die.
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It’s official. You can no longer be in limbo. The Catholic Church has officially abolished it.
Yes, really. A document by the International Theological Commission published today and approved by the Pope establishes that there is no limbo. Under the original theory children (or others) who were not baptized would go to limbo – nothingness -, according to Dante, one of the circles of hell. But the Catholic Church is concerned about providing such fate for the millions of aborted fetuses, whom, according to them, have souls. So their solution? Abolish limbo, let them go straight to hell… I mean, heaven. Now you know.
National Cluster Bomb Petition
LEBANON NEEDS YOUR HELP
Unexploded Cluster Bombs are the #1 humanitarian issue Lebanon faces today. Vast tracts of southern Lebanon are littered with over a million bomblets causing death, loss of limbs and other serious injuries. We urge you to sign on to the ATFL cluster bomb petition described below.
The American Task Force for Lebanon (ATFL) is leading a national Cluster Bomb Campaign to focus attention both on Lebanon’s Cluster Bomb problem and the broader issues associated with the indiscriminate use of Cluster Bombs.
Your help is vital!
Sign on to the ATFL Cluster Bomb Petition.
(Click on the petition button below)
Forward this email to all your email contacts.
ATFL will present its Cluster Bomb petition to President Bush, Secretary Rice, and Members of Congress.
Please add your voice and energy to our effort.
Sign on to the ATFL Cluster Bomb Petition by clicking on the petition button below:
http://action.atfl.org/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=6641&track=signclusterbombpetition_18829886
Today I received the following spam. It’s a re-take on the old Nigerian fax (and later e-mail scam). In that scam, you get a letter from someone who pretends to be a high government or bank official asking you for help (generally access to your bank account) to perpetuate a multiple-million dollar fraud. For your help, you get a percentage of that money, generally a few million. Once you are hooked, they start asking you for money in order to pay fees and bribes and so forth to release the money.
Many people have been scammed and lost thousands and tens of thousand of dollars. Now the scammers have decided to scam them once again – by pretending that they can receive a large payment from the UN for their losses in the previous scam. Of course, there is no such program and no such payment and we can expect they’ll have to pay more fees and so forth to give the scammers some money.
I have little sympathy for the victims of the scam – they are stupid, greedy and unethical – but I do find this highly amusing.
BTW, you can usually spot a scam of this type (and others) by looking at the faulty English.
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