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Controversial Church's Next Picketing Project: Twitter HQ

Reverend Fred Phelps’s Westboro Baptist Church plans to picket Twitter’s San Francisco offices tomorrow at 5:30 p.m. PST. The Kansas-based church is picketing because it believes that “the people who run Twitter … don’t use their position & voice to warn a generation of rebels of the consequences of their rebellion.”

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Photo du Jour: "Upended Sukka"

Up-ended Sukkah, Boston College campusOctober 7, 2009: They say that a Sukka, with its flimsy construction, serves to remind us that this world is temporal, and even if we think we are safe from the elements, it's really G-d that controls our destiny.

This was certainly the case on a windy day in October as I walked by this particular structure situated in the "Dust Bowl" near McElroy Hall for the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. As I approached McElroy Hall,  the Sukka  was still in fine shape, anchored firmly in the ground. I thought about taking a photo then, but decided to run my errand first and snap later. But when I exited less then ten minutes later, this was the photo I snapped: the Sukkah had been blown loose by the high winds and was upended some 50-75 feet away from its original location!

Yes, G-d truly controls our destinies. Well, I suppose you can say that G-d controls the destinies of flimsily-constructed Sukkas.

The Ten Commandments

The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments posted in a courthouse is this:

You cannot post 'Thou Shalt Not Steal,' 'Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery,' and 'Thou Shall Not Lie' in a building full of lawyers, judges and politicians.. It creates an unprofessional work environment.

--Thanks, Mike Colley

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1000s of Irish Catholics flock to a Co. Limerick church to pray at the stump of a willow resembling the Virgin Mary. Ah-ha! ...

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Do you suppose Hillary Clinton willingly covered her head with a scarf while in Egypt with President Obama?

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Boston Globe: ME & NH took steps toward approving of gay marriage today. 5 New England states have now moved to legalize same...

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"Bristol Palin to promote teen pregnancy prevention" says the media. Riiiiiiiiight...

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