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Date: April 21st, 2008

Livin’ on Mecca time

21 April, 2008 (15:08) | Politics, Religion, Science | By: ricjames

A conference being held in Qatar has yielded a proposal that Mecca, not Greenwich, is the center of the Earth and, therefore, should replace GMT as the “Universal Time.” At the conference, “Mecca, the Center of the Earth, Theory and Practice,” Muslim scientists and clerics called for the change, arguing that the holy city in [...]

Carter exemplifying the concept of “useful idiot” and “propaganda tool.”

21 April, 2008 (07:15) | GWOT, Politics | By: ricjames

Latest idiotism from Jimmy Carter? That Hamas is prepared to acknowledge Israel’s right to exist and to live in peace side-by-side with the Jewish state. Given that the latest Hamas attack against Israeli forces was just this past Saturday, you’d have to be pretty damned stupid to buy that one. Which, I suppose, proves the [...]