This IS July, right? Summer for this hemisphere of the planet? I’m pretty sure about that, I mean, that’s the way it’s always been all my life. So what’s with this winter weather in South America? People are dying from cold and exposure. Bolivia, Paraguay, Peru and Argentina are all reporting below-freezing temperatures and even Brazil, land of jungles and piranhas, has been feeling the chill. Meanwhile there’s a heat wave going on in Siberia.
Syria, which I would never have suspected of taking such an action, has banned the niqab and burqa from being worn in any university, public or private. The niqab is that tent-like robe that covers from the top of the head to the ground except for the eyes, and the burqa is the same with the addition of covering the eyes as well with a veil. Syria has a secular government, more or less. They hate Jews since they’re all Muslims but they like their Western lifestyles and consider conservative, meaning radical, Islam to be the sop of the poor.
In doing this, they’re following suit with some European nations such as France, which recently enacted a similar ban. Such robes are seen as demeaning to women, politically destabilizing and an impediment to integrating Muslim immigrants with society.
Lastly, it looks like the Catholic Church is finally racing to get back into the closet. A priest in Switzerland has been barred by his bishop from participating in a religious ceremony in the annual Gay Pride Parade, even though there’s been a Catholic priest taking part in the ceremony for years. It must have finally dawned on them that there’s been too much association of Catholicism with homosexuality already.
What a coincidence, BS:
RIGHT NOW, I’m in my job — wearing FIVE coats and THREE paints because the coldest winter in our History.
“Global Warming” my ass. This stupid farse has been unmasked by the very facts — it’s a self-evident lie.
Mr. Al Gore, you know where you may shove your Nobel Prize.
(Damm, my mom and my sisters are in Italy. I hope they don’t get a flu.)