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The fruits of Selflessness

published by You on 28 December, 2008 - 18:42

Memorial for 'selfless' postman

Tributes have been paid to a postman who died in a blizzard while delivering mail 100 years ago.

Robert Cunningham died at the age of 27 after being forced to take a detour across moors near the Ayrshire village of Ballantrae.

He froze to death alone just a short distance from his home...

Read more @ BBC News.

Discuss.

Istikhara

published by You on 28 December, 2008 - 07:18

A few questions:

1. Does it have to be about something specific or can it be general?
2. Do you have to go to sleep immediately afterwards?
3. Apart from reward, does it serve any purpose if you do not sleep that night?

(For those wondering what it is, clickety)

Taleban 'will kill school girls'

published by You on 28 December, 2008 - 04:31

Taleban 'will kill school girls'

Taleban militants in the Swat valley in north-west Pakistan have threatened to kill girls who attend school.

A local Taleban commander ordered parents to stop sending their daughters to school by 15 January.

In comments broadcast on an illegal radio station, he threatened to blow up schools which enrolled female students.

This year alone, Taleban militants have destroyed more than 130 schools in the Swat valley. They want to bring in Islamic sharia law in the region.

Militant attacks on schools in the region have deprived more than 17,000 students of education.

Read More @ BBC News.

Gaza Bombarded

published by BD Brother on 27 December, 2008 - 15:40

News Middle East
Scores dead in Israeli raid on Gaza

The Israeli air raids left a trail of death
and destruction [Reuters]

At least 195 Palestinians, including women and children, have been killed in an Israeli aerial bombardment on Hamas security installations.

Israel launched air attacks across the besieged Gaza Strip on Saturday, threatening that further operations would be carried out.

Emergency services said that at least 200 people were wounded.

Witnesses reported heavy damage as at least 30 missiles were
fired.

Al Jazeera News

Multi-faith Schools

published by Iftikhar on 27 December, 2008 - 12:24

. Multi-faith Schools

• A Muslim charity In Swindon is bidding to run the first Multi-faith Muslim School for Muslim and non-Muslim children and have teachers from different faiths. An hour of the timetable each day would be dedicated to studying Arabic and the Holy Quran. Non-Muslims pupils would be able to be exempted from the lessons, but it is hoped that the majority would choose to stay in class to gain more “insight” into the Islamic faith.

Gazan "invents cooking" gas alternative

published by You on 27 December, 2008 - 01:22

Gaza – Ma'an – Gazan resident Abd Ar-Rahman Farajallah revealed an alternative to cooking gas that he developed at a press conference on Thursday.

Cooking gas is in extremely short supply in the Gaza Strip due to the continued border closures imposed by Israel.

Farajallah explained that he invented a device using chemical substances available in Gaza, which burn when mixed and brought into contact with oxygen. He added that his concoction can be stored in medium-sized metal containers and used in homes, restaurants and bakeries as an alternative to cooking gas, since Israel has prevented deliveries of cooking gas to Gaza.

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When baby dolls go too far

published by You on 27 December, 2008 - 00:00

And I am not talking about them going the way of "Chucky".

Indulge your fecal fantasies with a doll that craps

Technology has brought many transcendent benefits to our culture, but possibly none have been as consummate in its exquisite magnificence as this holiday season's nonpareil of elegance, Baby Alive Learns to Potty, a child's doll that craps.

Surely this darling $60 dumper is the apotheosis of a dream first dreamed by Charles Babbage as he painstakingly constructed his pioneering Difference Engine in the 1830s. "Today a machine can calculate," he may have dared imagine, "Tomorrow it may think. And some day - we can only hope! - mankind will create a machine that can poop!"

And so it has.

End of All Hope

published by Seraphim on 26 December, 2008 - 19:52

Ive noticed sometimes when theirs a death that people tend to blame God for it. Like its his fault. And since they cant get at him, they start down a self-destructive path. No more praying no more anything remotely religious.

Why? God doesnt need your prayers. Sounds like giving up to me.

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