Monday, June 8, 2009

The horrible realities of self-righteousness and self-centeredness:

Killing another person just because they are different, (color) or don’t fit into a perceived spiritual mindset, (religion) is horrific.

1) Albino trials begin in Tanzania

2) LA Times: It was Wiesel who reminded people that the attempted annihilation of Jews by the Nazis was just part of the ethnic cleansing and massacres of the last century, including those in Rwanda, Cambodia, Bosnia and Darfur. He chided the world for forgetting the lessons it should have learned from the Holocaust.

Responding to a question at the earlier news conference, Obama said he wanted to visit Buchenwald because it was one of the camps liberated by Americans, including his great-uncle, Charles Payne, 84. Buchenwald was where more than 50,000 people, including Jews, were worked to death as slaves or killed outright during World War II. - Parsons, Christi (2009, June, 5). Obama backs renewed Mideast peace effort. Retrieved June 8, 2009, from http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-obama-germany6-2009jun06,0,6922884.story

Saturday, June 6, 2009

Imagine if you would: Hugh Laurie (House) and Rowan Atkinson (Mr. Bean). Thought everyone would get a kick out of this. They are both great actors.