Sunday, May 18, 2008

Tidbits - mostly without comment


Today's photo is the editorial cartoon by Clay Bennett in the Sunday Chattanooga Times Free Press. This will surely bring some interesting letters to the editors.
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The Vatican, in a Papal Encyclical, announced that it is okay to believe in alien beings.
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The ruling military junta in Myanmar refused foreign aid for Burmese refugees from Cyclone Nardis.
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GWBush is reported to have told the King of Saudi Arabia that if the Kingdom didn't release more oil it would cause "countries like mine to accelerate our move toward alternative energy". (You'd think we might be doing that in any case.)
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All this stuff was in the paper this morning. It's amazing.

There was one filler article about unusual things that people have requested done with their ashes (after cremation, of course). Our girls told me once that they were going to hire the small plane that tows the advertising banner along the beach in Gulf Shores. Towing a banner saying "Happy Trails, Mary", the plane would fly along the shoreline while they scattered my ashes in the ocean. What do you want done with YOUR ashes?

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