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Much controversy continues to surround president-elect Barack Obama’s choice of Rev. Rick Warren to give the invocation at his upcoming inaugural ceremony on January 20, 2009.

Warren is very popular among the Christian right. He is the California mega-church, anti-gay marriage pastor, who during the campaign last fall held a meeting at the Saddleback church which featured the Republican candidate and President-elect Obama. (more…)

We agree with the writer, “Chilean Jew” at the Daily Kos who said on Sunday, December 28, 2008, “Today I end my support of Israel.” There are many Americans, as individuals and as organizations, who support Israel. A few of the groups and individuals who provide funding to Israel are not Jewish or Zionist organizations. We are not Zionists. We can not continue to support a country unwilling to grant self-determination to a neighboring people. We’re done tolerating the slaughter, the murders and barbaric occupation of an impoverished people, the utter disregard for human life. (more…)

Happy New Year 2009 to the whole planet! We believe more than in spring the New Year is a time for renewal and restoration. (more…)

Damon Weaver is a student reporter at the Katherine E. Cunningham Elementary School in Canal Point, Palm Beach County, Florida.

You may have seen Damon’s interview of Vice-President-elect Joe Biden during a campaign visit to Palm Beach County last fall. Now Damon wants an interview with President-elect Barack Obama. Watch this video request:
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We believe someone at the New York Times made a grave error when they selected Nicholas Confessore, (NC) and David Halbfinger, (DH) to interview Caroline Kennedy,the daughter of the late president, about her interest in being appointed to the soon to be vacant senatorial seat for the great state of New York.

Not only did they wrongly conclude that Kennedy is, “less of a candidate than the idea of one” but they themselves did little to impress the attorney and mother of three. We read the interview. NYT should have sent some real men to interview Kennedy. (more…)

Merry Christmas to everyone around the world.

At this time of year there is much talk about a star. We turn our eyes toward the heavens.

Here is Robert Frost’s poem about a star.

CHOOSE SOMETHING LIKE A STAR

O Star (the fairest one in sight),
We grant your loftiness the right
To some obscurity of cloud –
It will not do to say of night,
Since dark is what brings out your light. (more…)

The Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme of $50 Billion has adversely affected two foundations that have been generous,  longstanding supporters of the national security and reproductive freedom work  performed by the American Civil Liberties Union. The two foundations have been damaged by the Madoff scandal — forced to close their doors and terminate their grants. (more…)

We recently found this item on the Internet(s) while doing our Christmas shopping.

The  folks at the R+M Design agency say this review is the same one Santa Claus uses to determine what gifts to give good or bad boys and girls of all ages.

See what your Christmas will look like when you click on the NAUGHTY or the NICE buttons. Click on the Christmas tree or on the presents under the tree. Have a Merry 2.0 Christmas!

This just in:
Congratulations to Alek Komarnitsky the winner of the 2008 Kentucky Fried Chicken Original Holiday Traditions contest - screenshot.

Kentucky Fried Chicken ran a nationwide Holiday Traditions Contest and Colonel Sanders has selected the Controllable Christmas Lights for Celiac Disease as the winner.

Since 2002 the Controllable Christmas Lights for Celiac Disease are an annual tradition on the Internet. Over the years, millions of people worldwide , one hundred forty-eight countries so far in 2008 have viewed the  more than twenty thousand Christmas lights by way of three live webcams on the Komarnitsky’s web site. (more…)

One of the things we enjoy the most about this time of year is Alek’s Controllable Christmas Lights. You may recall last year we told you about Alek and his lovely wife Wendy how they raise money for Celiac Disease research at the University of Maryland. They do this because they have two sons who live with the disease,  a digestive disorder in which foods containing gluten cause an immune-mediated toxic reaction if eaten. The disease affects almost one percent of Americans, though it is believed to be under-diagnosed.

Over the years millions around the world have viewed the Komarnitsky’s lighting display. This year so far  they count viewers from 148 countries have seen the more than twenty thousand *lights used in the displays.

*Note for the ecologically minded: The lights are wind powered and carbon neutral.

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