Brother David Steindl-Rast

To counteract the countdown of this season – so many days until Christmas, so many days left of this year – i decided to count up. High up. A billion struck my fancy for this year’s Christmas meditation. This gave me a surprising perspective: we are closer than i thought to that historic “Silent Night” of Bethlehem, yet, farther away than i realized from “Peace on earth”— or maybe not; it depends.

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Sea Shepherd

Sea Shepherd – The Truth about Greenpeace and Whaling
You should read this.
Thanks RT

You can donate to Sea Shepherd HERE.
Sea Shepherd web site
Sea Shepherd on MySpace

After reading some of your comments I want to say that I think Greenpeace has contributed a lot of good, but maybe hasn’t been as effective in terms of whaling as Sea Shephard. I think that should not mean that you get to put the money you earmarked for Greenpeace this year into lottery tickets or booze… :) It just means that maybe one has to spread one’s money across several different organizations that might be smaller, but act stronger in the areas of your interest.

Glass House

Virginia: From the Sublime to the Ridiculous
Regarding this article in the New York Times about Congressman Goode’s letter to his constituents condemning America’s first Muslim Congressman’s decision to swear his oath on the Koran:
Congressman Goode: The Constitution which you studied as a law student at Virginia, and swore to defend as a member of the ‘105th, the 106th, the 107th, 108th and the 109th Congress‘ says this:

‘but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States’ (Article VI, section 3)

Does your oath to the Constitution not include this section? Or do you simply not take the oath you took seriously?
(Via Lessig Blog)

Whoa, what a smackdown… deserved