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How Can We Make The War In Iraq More Eco-Friendly

Posted on March 2nd, 2008 at 23:18 by John Sinteur in category: Mess O'Potamia


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A parable for Kenya

Posted on March 2nd, 2008 at 17:57 by John Sinteur in category: News

In 2001, several people who traveled to Kenya with Joseph Lekuton were inspired to found the Nomadic Kenyan Children’s Educational Fund (www.NKCEF.org) and to date have educated over 500 nomadic children in Kenyan high schools. Kenyan HS education is not free: $500 per year educates a child. By supporting education, you can help the nomadic people escape the burdens of poverty.


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God’s Country

Posted on March 2nd, 2008 at 17:06 by John Sinteur in category: Pastafarian News

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No one knows what happened first. Someone shouted arna—infidel”—at the Christians. Someone spat the word jihadi at the Muslims. Someone picked up a stone. “That was the day ethnicity disappeared entirely, and the conflict became just about religion,” Abdullahi said. Chaos broke out, as young people on each side began to throw rocks. The candidates ran for their lives, and mobs set fire to the surrounding houses.

After that episode, the Christians issued an edict that no Christian girl could be seen with a Muslim boy. “We had a problem of intermarriage,” Pastor Sunday Wuyep, a church leader in Yelwa, told me on the first of two visits I made in 2006 and 2007. “Just because our ladies are stupid and attracted to money,” he sighed. Economics lay at the heart of the enmity between the two groups: as merchants and herders, the Muslim Jarawa were much wealthier than the Christian Tarok and Goemai. But Pastor Sunday, like many others of his faith, felt that Muslims were trying to wipe out Christians by converting them through marriage. “It’s scriptural, this fight,” he said. So he and the other elders decided to punish the women. “If a woman gets caught with a Muslim man,” Sunday said, “she must be forcibly brought back.” The decree turned out to be a call to vigilante violence as patrols of young men, both Christian and Muslim, took to the streets. What eventually transpired, in the name of religion, was a kind of Clockwork Orange.


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Choosing my religion

Posted on March 2nd, 2008 at 12:02 by John Sinteur in category: Pastafarian News


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  1. ROTFL…hilarious, thanks!

Physicists Successfully Store and Retrieve Nothing

Posted on March 2nd, 2008 at 11:26 by John Sinteur in category: News

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It sounds like a headline from the spoof newspaper The Onion, but for physicists, this is actually an achievement: Two teams have stored nothing in a puff of gas and then retrieved it a split second later.


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What happens when you stop calling waterboarding torture?

Posted on March 2nd, 2008 at 11:19 by John Sinteur in category: ¿ʞɔnɟ ǝɥʇ ʇɐɥʍ, What were they thinking?

Companies start using it to increase sales.


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Food Fight

Posted on March 2nd, 2008 at 10:54 by John Sinteur in category: News

An abridged history of American-centric warfare, from WWII to present day, told through the foods of the countries in conflict.

For the official cheat sheet (breakdown of the foodstuffs), visit:
http://homepage.mac.com/stefannadelman/foodfight/cheat.htm


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Idols

Posted on March 2nd, 2008 at 10:30 by John Sinteur in category: Nederland is Gek!, Pastafarian News

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  1. Lol, I don’t really understand, but I can guess.