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DECEMBER 2006 --- Despite his failed prophecy from May 2006 that "vicious hurricanes" and a possible tsunami would lash the American coastline this year, Pat Robertson has been named "Meteorologist of the Year" by the American Meteorologist Society. "He may be a false prophet, but he's one heck of a weatherman" said AMS spokesman Ned Wainwright in his praise of the famous 700 Club host. "We believe that Pat exemplifies the quintessential meteorologist when he proves that we don't know squat about weather forecasting. Sure, his hurricane prediction was a colossal blunder, but when was the last time Willard Scott got anything right?" Though most major weather forecasters expe...

over at the Acton Institute they give the evidence and the hope “To pander to this world is to fornicate against you,” confesses Augustine to God. The worldly culture of today seems to be trying its best to actualize Augustine’s observation in literal terms. In a recent edition of New York Magazine , Naomi Wolf writes about “The Porn Myth,” and cites David Amsden who says that pornography is now the “wallpaper” of our lives.

written on the US's recent Thanksgiving day... today is also the day the people of Ukraine commemorate the 73rd anniversary of the Soviet (Russian-inspired) 1932-33 Terror Famine known in Ukraine as Holodomor (murder by hunger). About a quarter of Ukraine’s population wiped out: between 7-10 million people are estimated to have died during 1932-33 as a direct result of the Soviet (read: Russian-inspired) policy of Collectivization to suppress free-market agrarian development in the Ukrainian country-side. Children disappeared; cannibalism became rampant. (This was preceded by an earlier artificial famine during 1920-21, which included huge repressions against Ukrainian believers and confiscation of their property, and followed by waves of repressions against the Ukrainian intelligentsia to suppress the language and national aspirations.) Stalin’s plan was implemented by staunch atheist Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich —known as the “Wolf of the Kremlin” and its “architect of fear....

really neat interview, putting world-wide missions in the wide focus.

India (Compass Direct News) At around 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday (November 29)... Seeing her alone, local resident Kamlesh Singh Yadav allegedly abducted and raped her. The Paswans work with Faith Fellowship, a local, registered non-profit organization founded by Pastor Radhey Shyam Philip. “This is a ploy of extremists to drive us out and stop the Christian work in the village,” Philip told Compass. “Some villagers caught Yadav when he was trying to flee after committing the crime. Yadav said that someone had asked him to rape the woman, but he refused to name the person responsible.” Yadav then managed to escape. The Dinara police station has registered a complaint against Yadav under Section 366 of the Indian Penal Code for abduction and rape. Constable Ashutosh Pandey told Compass that a medical report had confirmed the rape, but that he was unsure whether the victim was raped because of her Christian identity. He added that policemen had gone to the village to arrest Yadav...

but does enough to get the protest called off

not according to this list of links at ER