Lunch by the river:
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Wasa 17C galleon that sunk as soon as it was launched – recently retrieved and restored:
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Obama expresses support for Dearborn Christians
Don’t be silly, of course he didn’t. Obama’s commitment to religious freedom only works one way: the Muslim way. He doesn’t give a fig for the 3 Christians arrested in Dearborn for sharing the Gospel with Muslims; why would he? – after all, slapping Christians around has become a national sport second only to pandering to Islam. And Obama is a practiced panderer.
From here:
US President Barack Obama on Friday forcefully endorsed allowing a mosque near the site of the former World Trade Center, saying the country’s founding principles demanded no less, even as 70 percent of US citizens opposed the mosque’s construction in a recent poll.
“As a citizen, and as president, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as anyone else in this country,” Obama said, weighing in for the first time on a controversy that has riven New York City and Americans.
“That includes the right to build a place of worship and a community center on private property in lower Manhattan, in accordance with local laws and ordinances,” he said. “This is America, and our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakable.”
Lebanese TV stations scrap Jesus show
From the Jerusalem Post:
Controversial program describes Jesus from an Islamic point of view.
BEIRUT — Two Shiite Muslim television stations in Lebanon canceled a controversial program about Jesus on Friday, saying they do not want to stir up sectarian conflict in the country.
The 17-episode program, which was produced in Iran, describes Jesus from an Islamic point of view. Muslims believe Jesus was a prophet and a teacher, but not the son of God.
The cancellation is supposedly out of respect for Lebanon’s “religious diversity”. There is a much better reason: the contention that Jesus was merely a great prophet and teacher is illogical and clearly untrue. Either Jesus was who he claimed to be – God incarnate – or he was a nut case. C. S. Lewis said it best:
I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: “I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept His claim to be God.” That is the one thing we must not say. A man who said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to
A Canadian moderate Muslim speaks against the ground zero mosque
Raheel Raza tells us Mayor Bloomberg and other bleeding heart white liberals like him don’t understand the battle that moderate Muslims are faced with when confronting radical Islam. Let’s add the bleeding heart white liberals in the National Council of Churches to that.
The 140 characters per chapter Bible
From here:
It is a task of truly Biblical proportions.
But dedicated Christian, Chris Juby, has pledged to spread the word of the Lord – tweet by tweet.
The 30-year-old plans to publish the entire Bible on social networking website Twitter by condensing one chapter a day into less than 140 characters – the maximum allowed for a single entry.
Mr Juby began with the first chapter of Genesis on Sunday and intends to work his way through all 1,189 chapters.
He estimates that it will take more than three years to complete, with the last entry due on November 8, 2013.
You can find it here, but is it a clever way to evangelise or an invitation to reap the rewards of Rev 22:18?
The National Council of Churches supports ground zero mosque
From here:
Led by the National Council of Churches (NCC), the Religious Left is backing the proposed Ground Zero Islamic Center while denouncing the mosque’s skeptics as “hateful.”
Revealingly, the statement endorsed by 40 religious “leaders” is relatively narrowly comprised of top NCC officials, left-wing Catholics, Muslim groups, and mostly second-tier Jewish groups, plus J Street. Missing are the usual Mainline Protestant clerics, Eastern Orthodox, and prominent liberal Jews typically found on NCC-organized political blasts. No prominent evangelicals are on the list.
The interfaith enthusiasts for the mosque chimed:
As Catholic, evangelical, mainline Protestant, Jewish and Muslim leaders and scholars committed to religious freedom and inter-religious cooperation, we are deeply troubled by the xenophobia and religious bigotry that has characterized some of the opposition to a proposed Islamic center and mosque near where the World Trade Center towers once stood.
Is this a sign of religious tolerance ushering in a new utopia of mutual understanding and elysian harmony? Or is it yet another example of Christendom doing this to itself:
Canadian navy boards refugee ship carrying suspected terrorists
From here:
The Canadian government confirmed Thursday that its Navy has boarded a Tamil refugee ship headed toward Vancouver, amid concerns that some on board may be members of the Tamil Tigers terrorist organization.
Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said the vessel has declared the 490 passengers on board to be refugees. But he said the government has concerns there may be members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, or Tamil Tigers, on board. Both the U.S. and Canadian governments consider the group a terrorist organization.
Terrorists would lay low, while peace activists would be attacking the boarding party of the Canadian Navy: at least we know they are not peace activists.
Meanwhile, Anglican Church of Canada Dioceses are undoubtedly competing vigorously for the privilege of sponsoring these innocent victims of oppression.
Copenhagen
It’s a shame I was too late for the climate conference.
Skyline from the hotel:
View from the hotel:
On the ferry to Denmark:
Tivoli Gardens built in 1844:
Frederiksborg Palace:
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A Canadian prisoner of conscience
Yes there is one: her name is Linda Gibbons, a harmless grandmother who happens to believe that murdering unborn babies is wrong. Unlike Omar Khadar, who is seldom out of the media and
undoubtedly deserves to serve a stretch in the clink, Linda Gibbons is largely ignored by the mainstream media, although there is this article in today’s National Post:
Linda Gibbons, an anti-abortion activist who has spent eight of the past 16 years behind bars for continually breaking a temporary injunction around a Toronto abortion clinic, has been abused by a legal system that has failed to deal with her in a proper venue and in a timely fashion, her lawyers told a provincial court judge on Tuesday.
The underlying behaviour of the Crown has been to delay doing its duty “and now 16 years later is taking advantage of its dereliction,” lawyer Nicolas Rouleau told Judge Mara Greene in a Toronto courtroom.
Daniel Santoro also argued that Ms. Gibbons should never have been arrested nearly 20 times for breaching the temporary injunction, which a civil court issued in 1994 at the request of the then NDP government.
Once inside the courtroom, her supporters stood silently as the 62-year-old defendant, whose skin looked nearly grey and who walked with a noticeable stoop, was brought in handcuffed. Ms. Gibbon sat through the two-hour hearing with her head down. She has never spoken at any of her court appearances, believing silence is part of her protest for the “voicelessness of the unborn,” a supporter, Father Tony Van Hee, explained.
Fr. Van Hee has held a 21-year vigil outside of Parliament Hill to make abortion a criminal offence. He and others think Ms. Gibbons is a prisoner of conscience.
Eight years in prison; not for committing a crime but for having the guts to stand against real criminals – abortion providers and those who support them. All brought to you by the party of compassion, the NDP.
Robert Gibbs goes to pieces and takes the language with him
There must be something good about Obama – although what, exactly eludes me – since Robert Gibbs tells us the left thinks he is like Bush:
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs has taken aim at the “professional left” for being unnecessarily harsh on U.S. President Barack Obama and pushing for a Canadian-style health-care system.
“They will be satisfied when we have Canadian health care and we’ve eliminated the Pentagon,” the normally affable Gibbs says in an explosive interview published Tuesday in the congressional newspaper The Hill. “That’s not reality.”
Those on the left who claim Obama as president isn’t much different than George W. Bush, he added, “ought to be drug-tested.”
Poor Gibbs: this sort of philippic from a professional communicator is a sure sign of his imminent demise. To completely set every right-thinking person’s teeth on edge, he ends by butchering the Queen’s English with “There’s 101 things we’ve done.” . There are, Gibbs, there are.