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Or "inciting racial hatred" to be more precise. For those of you who aren't familiar with Brigitte Bardot, she's the French actress/sex symbol who steamed up the screen during the 1950's and 60's. She's since developed into a fierece critic of Islam and its effect on French society. For that, she's facing jail time. Welcome to the brave new world of Eurabia, courtesy of YNet News:
Here's another lesson in American sayings for my African friends...
Are Jewish voters spooked by Barack Obama's middle name? Apparently Obama thinks so. Read his comments today to Jewish Leaders:
The Brody File tries to stay away from controversy. The Brody File tries to stay out of quarrels. The Brody File is really just a sweet, sweet Brody File.
The Brody File has searched the video vault again and brings up the following:
God is relational and He has created us to be relational as well. We were created to be in relationship, and marriage is one of the highest means by which God has ordained the meeting of our relationship needs.
Given the way we were created, it is no wonder that one of the most excruciating pains we can feel is abandonment in marriage. Joined together physically and spiritually, drifting apart feels terrible. The person with whom you have shared your heart and soul no longer cares to communicate with you.
C.E. I agree... I half cried when Michael Johns was voted out. Right after Ramielle Malugay.... wahhhhh. It should have been that girl Kristy Lee Cook who got axed!!! As you can see, we are REALLY into American Idol. In fact, my youngest daughter even auditioned for the local version. We stood in line for six long hours just to do this. Me, the stage mother. Ha ha ha.
April 11, 2008
OK, Guys & Gals….
I don't often do this, but this doesn't happen often either. American Idol opened the show last night with an encore of " Shout To the Lord." Evidently it is the number ONE download from the night before.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6WOzF9ZGA7A
In the recent, Academy Award-winning film There Will Be Blood, one man's lust for oil - and the power and wealth that comes with it - eventually drives him mad. The timing of the film is ironic. Because as the summer driving season approaches amid record gas prices, many frustrated Americans are questioning the sanity of their government's heavy reliance on foreign oil from OPEC. The group--which is made up of 13 of the world's most petroleum-rich nations--sets the market price for oil