The Blog from the Core - Friday, June 13, 2003

Bingo! So To Speak

Anglican Diocese in Brazil formally breaks communion indefinitely with Canadian and American pro-homosexual dioceses.

See also this statement signed by 15 Anglican Primates as of June 6.

P.S. Anyone want to take any bets as to how close the "liberal" Canadian/American Episcopalian reaction to these developments will approach to bigotry or outright racism?

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Fri. 06/13/03 10:10:37 PM
Categorized as Religious.

It Seems Israel May Be Taking My Advice

As reported in this AP story at Newsday today:

Despite appeals to break a cycle of attack and counterattack, Israel broadened its campaign against Palestinian militants Friday, saying it will strike political as well as military leaders who target Israel with terrorism.

In new attacks against Hamas on Friday -- the sixth and seventh in four days -- Israel killed an operative of the group in a missile attack in Gaza City and three hours later fired rockets at a building just a block from the home of Hamas founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin....

See "People Burned Like Torches".

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Fri. 06/13/03 08:39:00 PM
Categorized as International.

Yet More Talk About Spam

This time from Clyde Wayne Crews Jr. at NRO today:

BTW, I should mention that I do not support Caldwell's idea of a tax on e-mail to make spamming too expensive to be worthwhile. I don't see why the general Internet public (the victims) should have to pay because spammers (the perpetrators) are effectively threatening to choke the Internet to death: punish them, not us.

(Thanks, Ramesh.)

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Fri. 06/13/03 05:43:11 PM
Categorized as Other.

Where is the Boston Globe When You Need It?

Is pedophilia of interest only when one can use it as a weapon against the Catholic Church?

How come The Boston Globe — so very, very interested in ~~crucifying the Catholic Church for allowing~~ reporting about pedophile priests preying on children — isn't making this kind of stuff front-page news?

We better wake up fast and realize that the same kind of coordinated effort that made homosexuality be politically correct is now being brought to bear to make pedophilia become politically correct. Shea is right: the Catholic Church will eventually be condemned by the elite for declaring immoral what it is now being vilified for having let miscreant clergy get away with.

Next stop, "gay" "marriage". After that, "intergenerational intimacy". And you will be brainless, backwards bigots if you oppose any of it.

(Thanks, Mark.)

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Fri. 06/13/03 11:28:36 AM
Categorized as Media.

"The Bus on the Roadmap"

Peppermint Patty blogs an interesting reflection (including a mention of The Blog from the Core) yesterday:

.... Before suicide bombers, I would have thought the world could agree that blowing yourself up to make sure you kill innocent people is a morally repugnant thing. Now it seems that is open for debate in the Middle East.

What else morally is open for debate? Should it be? There was a time in this country and the world where everyone agreed that killing unborn babies and assisting old and sick people to commit suicide was morally repugnant, even though people in desperation sometimes did those things, and we all had compassion for the desperation without giving ground on the morality....

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Fri. 06/13/03 11:12:37 AM
Categorized as Social/Cultural.

Translation of Job Skills/Requirements

I just came across the following in a posting at one of the Pittsburgh-area job websites:

Skills: Dibol/C/Pro C/C++/Cobol/Oracle 8.0.5-8i Oracle Financials 10.7 UNIX Requirements: Looking for someone who is aggressive and can bang out some serious quality code based on business requirements. A true software/applications engineer.

My translation:

We want a complete geek, with little or (preferably) no social skills, who can subsist on Snickers and Mountain Dew for days at a time, and doesn't quite remember what daylight looks like.

P.S. My friend Paul, a programmer/analyst, points out that I forgot to mention Ho-Hos and Fritos Corn Chips. :-)

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Fri. 06/13/03 10:03:08 AM
Categorized as Other.

The White House Seems to Agree With Me, Too

Right now, anyway.

As reported in today's WaPo:

The Bush administration signaled strong support for Israel's crackdown on militant groups yesterday, effectively abandoning its earlier criticism of the government of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon that had sparked an outcry from lawmakers on Capitol Hill and pro-Israel lobbying groups.

In coordinated statements, White House and State Department officials tried to shift the diplomatic focus from Israeli actions to the commitment made by Arab leaders at a summit last week in Egypt to cut off funding and support for terrorist attacks against Israelis. Secretary of State Colin L. Powell made that point in a round of phone calls to Arab foreign ministers, officials said....

See "People Burned Like Torches".

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Fri. 06/13/03 08:14:07 AM
Categorized as International.