Tulsa-Smith:- emotional...: COMMENTS BY "JOHN" ON TWO POSTS IN THIS BLOG

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

COMMENTS BY "JOHN" ON TWO POSTS IN THIS BLOG

My thanks go to "JOHN" for his useful and insightful comments, as listed below:

[ John has left a new comment on your post "THE MAKING OF A MARTYR - WHEN TECHNOLOGY DEFEATS V...":

Yeah well the CIA don't like it as Saddam botched an assassination attempt on the Iraqi Prime Minister Abd al-Karim Qassem (or Qasim) back in 1959. Saddam was only 22 then and managed to kill the Prime Minister's driver and Qasim got shot in the arm and shoulder. Unfortunately (or fortunately for Qasim) the six man team had bullets that didn't fit their guns, grenades that got stuck in their coat (bit unprofessional really). Qasim just hid on the floor of his car and survived until the next successful assassination attempt by the CIA four years later. Of course I think these days America would like to forget about this little slice of history. Look it all up if you're interested as it's a matter of public record now. I wouldn't be surprised if the CIA has a very long memory on this one. They don't like being made fools of.

Posted by John to Tulsa-smith at Tuesday, January 02, 2007 9:39:00 PM ]

[ John has left a new comment on your post "WHAT COULD MAKE A MAN HIJACK A PLANE WITH HIS FAMI...":

People get scared on a plane because there's nowhere they can go to. As long as they keep serving alcohol on planes these sorts of incidents will happen and be blown up (no pun intended) out of proportion. Your chances of dying in a terrorist attack are probably on a par with being hit by an asteroid or winning the lottery jackpot - however the perception of this risk is overplayed because the media would prefer to write about terrorism than say people dying because they didn't get enough exercise. This leads to the general public perceiving the risk of terrorism as being greater than it really is.

Posted by John to Tulsa-smith at Tuesday, January 02, 2007 9:24:00 PM ]

BEST WISHES, HAPPY NEW YEAR, TO YOU, "JOHN".

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Greenville, Rhode Island bakery owned by the Cavanagh family, which uses the plant to produce church communion bread from just water and bread. That business is known to produce about 850 million sacramental wafers annually and to supply 80% of the Holy Communion bread used in American, Australian, Canadian, and British churches. The only middlemen in the supply chain are nuns living in convents! Now they want to expand to West Africa with their Christian sacramental ware for Pentecostal, Catholic, 'New Wave', and Orthodox church offerings. I make reference to the so-called New Wave churches - my term for those churches that broke away from the orthodoxy of the Protestant fold, just as the latter roke off from the Catholic church by virtue of the exploits of Martin Luther centuries ago. Many new-wave and other church goers in the generally undeveloped West African subregion of Africa pay more to religious organizations in monthly tithes and offerings than they do to their government in personal income and value added taxes. Now, that last fact is quite interesting because it is an admission that a bakery in Rhode Island has seen a huge market in the center of Black Africa for small white perfectly laminated and non-crumbly holy wheat bread, reportedly costing "less than a penny" apiece, for the use of both the bible-reading and the bible-believing religious organizations. However, the picture from the Cavanagh's factory floor speaks volumes, in my own opinion, about the need for the company to watch its business ethics and to treat all customers equally irrespective of location, creed, or other discriminatory demographic information or criteria. So, I just hope and pray that the wafers falling off the conveyor belt and by the way side are not destined for West Africa and that the actual wafers delivered will be wheat bread and water, and not just glutamate-free bread and 'pure' water, if you get my point, even if so requested by some shady, greedy, and unethical businessmen over in West Africa. Posted by Okonkwo O. Awa on Sunday, December 28, 2008.

In the summer of 2007, Pope Benedict XVI (BXVI) encouraged The Church to reach out to young people using new technologies, as he himself learned to send out cellphone text messages to the faithful. So in obedience, a tech savvy evangelizing Catholic priest got some help from a Web designer in order to write all the daily books of prayers into a low-cost computer software application downloadable onto the iPhone. Rev. Paolo Padrini's iTunes prayer book was officially approved by The Vatican's Pontifical Council for Social Communications in December 2008. Of course, all proceeds from the electronic prayer book venture will go to charity. Speaking of charitable behavior, The Holy See has seen it fit after 400 years to honor Galileo Galilei in 2009 as the "patron" of the non-mutual exclusivity of the faith versus reason dichotomy. That is very appropriate in this age of new technology, even though The Church still smarts from its error of judgment in calling the famous astronomer a heretic after he publicly embarrassed The Church by reporting that his scientific observations in Astronomy with his unique telescope had led him inexorably to believe that the Earth actually revolved around the sun, in direct opposition to the teaching of The Church at the time that Planet Earth was the center of the universe. In seeking to paint the Church in a new light of worldly knowledge by distancing itself from a past of imbibing pure dogma, The Vatican may have ventured to cross the final frontier and boundary between Science and Christianity by acknowledging recently that there could be life on planets other than the Earth! Posted by O. O. Awa on Wednesday, December 24, 2008.