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A Serb and a Croat Accused in Plot to Assasinate Dodik


http://www.slobodnadalmacija.hr/20060519/novosti01.asp

Croat Serbian official fell


http://www.free-press-release-center.info/pr00000000000000001077.html

Londoner Hides Identity to Tell Truth about Romania

Registration site but there's a snippet of the story:

https://registration.ft.com/registration/barrier?referer=&location=http%3A//news.ft.com/cms/s/8ce722fc-a022-11da-a703-0000779e2340.html

Let Head Rule Heart When Purchasing Foreign Property

http://www.thedailytimes.com/sited/story/html/257951
Ana Popovic brings the Balkans to the Blues


And now for today's Pyramid Update:

http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/zones/sundaytimesNEW/basket7st/basket7st1147927316.aspx

Pyramid has similarities to Giza

Again I wonder if this really so?

There aare so many discrepencies in this pyramid story.


I am getting really fed up with the whole immigration bill process.
I'm not against securing the border, that should happen for any number of reasons, my problem is there isn't enough discussion of easing the difficulties of LEGAL entry! Assylum in particular is difficult.
Why isn't htere more discussion of hiring enough people to actually do the job? Seriously that is one of the problems, not enough customs agents or border control guys in the first place.

The Bosnians are not the only ones with an archeological puzzle, it may be they have found the location of Jimmy Hoffa's burial.

Speaking of the dead, I found out yesterday that Diamond Lil is buried in the Yakima area!

I need to check that out more.
Have a nice day, I will try not to get too h ot.

Updates, checked out the Diamond Lil story, most likely an urban legend of our gulag!
No definate info anyway.

I really liked the rain today. I took a few pictures of a magnificent double rainbow which formed behind my house. I will get them up as soon as I can.
I've seen very few rainbows here, one was triple though, I saw it out at my daughter and son-son-in-law's place, the last rainbow I saw here was last year actually.
There has been a bit of rain today, and I liked it, it cooled things off which I badly needed.

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Bulgaria's Orthodox Bishops want the DaVinci Code Banned in Bulgaria

As well the Muslims want it banned in Russia!

That the Catholic and Orthodox Churches both don't like this film doesn't surprise me much.

I have a theory about why there were legends about Mary Magdalen and Jesus being married.

At least one royal family has substantial Arab, Berber and Jewish ancestry, that of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. Of course they would want to deny this heritage! Other noble families of Europe had some Jewish or Muslim ancestry and it was not exactly convenient to say 'Yes there are Arabs in our family tree! Yes there are Jews in our family tree!' It would have got them in trouble with the Inquisition!

Jews of the House of David in fact ARE relatives of Jesus, and Muslims descended from Prophet Muhammad consider themselves as related to the family of Jesus as they believe all the prophets are related to each other, the ones in the Torah the Bible and the Koran are of a single blood-line. So someone with Arab or Jewish blood facing the tender mercies of the Inquisition might well have come up with a legend, a pious fraud that would protect them.

King Ferdinand of Spain had a Jewish grandmother. This was the same king that kicked all the Muslims and Jews out of Spain. In the time of his rule even harmless customs like using henna were banned as being of Muslim origin!

The hatred of Jews and Muslims and the desire to kill them and take their stuff was a big theme in the epic El Cid. '
In those days people who were Catholic but had Jewish or Muslim relatives had to protect themselves, as did disident Christians. I believe the whole legend can be explained by this fact.

I do want to say something on the question of Opus Dei, not my favorite organization within the Catholic Church, but they have not been to my knowlege a violent organization. Narrowminded and conservative yes, supporters of political movements like Fascism under Franco yes, but again as an organization not violent.
I have not been to see this film, odds are I won't go see it, not because I think it will damage my faith, daily life can be much more of a danger than any work of fiction! I won't go see it anytime soon because I don't have time right now.
I went and saw 'The Passion of the Christ' and it confirmed me in my dislike of religiously themed movies. I did not like being in a theatre full of people being whipped into an artificial but very real religious frenzy!
It's the same reason I wasn't nuts about 'The Last Temptation of Christ' I find this sort of thing boring, pointless and basically pretty shallow.
A pity that they had to put one over on the Inquisition in that fashion!