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Quote of the Day. "I'm not a music critic. I cannot tell you where Bruce Springsteen falls in the pantheon of the American songbook, but I am from New Jersey. And I can tell you what I believe. I believe Bob Dylan and James Brown had a baby … that child is Bruce Springsteen. He is The Boss.” Jon Stewart of The Daily Show at the Kennedy Center Honorees ceremony. (USA Today)
Quote of the Day. “I’m trying to teach the kids that you don’t need to have expensive toys to have fun. You can make it fun, from anything.” Igor Montoya, Miami, on the growing trend to buy less and spend more time visiting with family and friends, gardening, cooking, reading, and other hobbies, along with volunteering for civic and religious activities. (New York Times)
Quote of the Day. “The Church may be eternal, but not the churches. In the past, these buildings were sacred, but today there is no sense of the sacred.” Béatrice de Andia, the founder and president of the Religious Heritage Observatory in Paris, on the number of French churches in disrepair. (New York Times)
Quote of the Day. "My double radiation exposure is now an official government record. It can tell the younger generation the horrifying history of the atomic bombings even after I die." Tsutomu Yamaguchi, the only person certified as having survived the atomic bombings of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki, died Monday at age 93. (Guardian)
Quote of the Day. “This is irresponsible at best and pernicious at worst. Unfortunately and sadly, it is a continuation of the pursuit of profit over safety -- for both drivers and pedestrians.” Nicholas A. Ashford, professor of technology and policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, on new systems that put Internet-connected computers on auto dashboards. (New York Times)
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1' you shall not do [it], but worship the [Lord].
2' Judge the sla[ve] and the wid[ow] / Judge the orph[an]
3' [and] the stranger. [Pl]ead for the infant / plead for the po[or and]
4' the widow. Rehabilitate [the poor] at the hands of the king.
5' Protect the po[or and] the slave / [supp]ort the stranger.
The recently deciphered inscription, typical of biblical language, was found in Israel and dates from the 10th century BCE, the time of King David, making it the earliest known Hebrew writing. (Jerusalem Post, Haaretz)
Quote of the Day. “Green is not just the environment. It’s politics, government, social justice.” Jennifer Auceda, 17, student at a “green school” in New York City where environmental education is a basic part of the curriculum. (New York Times)
Quote of the Day. “It’s like we’ve got more going on in our parking lot than we do within the walls of the church.” Craig Goodwin, pastor of Millwood (WA) Community Presbyterian Church. When the church was told it would have to close its farmers’ market on the church parking lot or the lot could no longer be claimed as tax-exempt, it decided to keep the market and pay the $700 in annual taxes. (New York Times)
Quote of the Day. “I use it as my alarm clock, because it has an annoying ringtone that doesn’t stop until you turn it off. At night, I can text or watch something on YouTube until I fall asleep. It lets me talk on the phone and watch a video at the same time, or listen to music while I send text messages.” Francisco Sepulveda, a 14-year-old Bronx eighth grader, speaking of his smart phone, an example of a new study showing that those ages 8 to 18 spend more than seven and a half hours a day using electronic devices. (New York Times)
Quote of the Day. "The special forces guys -- they hunt men basically. We do the same things as Christians, we hunt people for Jesus. We do, we hunt them down. Get the hound of heaven after them, so we get them into the kingdom. That's what we do, that's our business." Lieutenant-Colonel Gary Hensley, chief of the U.S. military chaplains in Afghanistan, in a recorded sermon to soldiers. (Al Jazeera)
Quote of the Day. “He didn’t think of the ramifications, I guess. You can’t expect the whole world to know what this ritual is all about. I would suggest, pray on the plane and put the tefillin on later on. Pray, and fulfill the ritual later.” Rabbi Shmuel Greenberg, White Plains, NY, on a young man from his congregation who caused a panic on board a jet as he put on the small leather boxes attached to leather straps that observant Jews wear during morning prayers. A flight attendant thought it looked ominous, as if the young man were wrapping himself in cables or wires, and the plane was diverted to Philadelphia. (New York Times)
Quote of the Day. "It's kind of cool for a change. I mean, we do this in Iraq, but at the same time there we're killing people, you know what I mean?" Sgt. Eric DeJesus, a 26-year-old from New Jersey, on the U.S. Army distributing food and water in Haiti. (Los Angeles Times)
Quote of the Day. "We played black gospel and blues for those Iranians. They were just hugging us they were so excited. They loved it." Sylvester Hoover, 52, owner of Baptist Town, MS's only business, a one-room grocery, laundromat, and barbecue grill. Hoover visited Iran with Dr. Aaron Shirley, a pediatrician who serves the rural poor, to study a low-cost rural health-care delivery system that has helped cut infant deaths by 70% over the last three decades. (Los Angeles Times
"This issue transcends race and faith. From the gold diggers in the 19th century ... to the governor in the 20th century, we are a state of immigrants. We are the state of California." Shakeel Syed, executive director of the Islamic Shura Council of Southern California, at a prayer vigil/rally in Santa Ana, CA as part of a national day calling for comprehensive immigration reform. (Orange County Register)
Quote of the Day. “We don’t know exactly what is happening in this country. The president is putting on his karakul hat, talking about security in London, but here our mullahs are being killed, our soldiers are being killed, our innocent civilian people are being killed, and nobody cares.” Abdul Qadir, son-in-law of an Afghan Imam killed yesterday by shots from a NATO convoy. (New York Times)
Quote of the Day. "My parents grew up and carried the scars of racial segregation. I didn't want to see my children have to face the same problem. We just felt that this certainly was a time to act. If not now, when? If not my generation, what generation?" Joseph McNeil, now 67, one of four students who sat-in at a Greensboro, NC, lunch counter 50 years ago today, sparking the civil rights movement of the 1960s. (USA Today)
"Many repairs are not being done or done properly, and too many flights are leaving the ground in what the FAA calls 'unairworthy,' or unsafe, condition," John Goglia, a former airline mechanic who was a National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) member from 1995 to 2004, commenting on an investigation into airline maintenance problems. (USA Today)
“It doesn’t seem right that I can rent a place somewhere for half of what I’m paying. I told my bank, ‘Just take a little bite out of what I owe. That would ease me up. Isn’t that why the president gave you all this money?’”Joe Figliola, Elgin, IL, one of millions of Americans whose home’s value is below 75 percent of the mortgage balance, and like many others, is considering walking away from the mortgage. (New York Times)
Quote of the Day. “No matter how I look at the issue, I cannot escape being troubled by the fact that we have in place a policy which forces young men and women to lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens.” Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. (New York Times)
Quote of the Day. "Like polar bears, these high-elevation butterflies were already living in extreme environments, and now they don't have any options ... Their environment is changing so quickly that they just can't cope.” Matthew Forister, a biologist at the University of Nevada-Reno who led a study of beleaguered butterflies in California. (USA Today)
"We are extremely grateful for the U.S. government response to Haiti, but that doesn't mean the needs in other crisis-affected regions are going to go away." Lisa Kuennen-Asfaw, spokeswoman for Catholic Relief Services, expressing concern that U.S. government funding for earthquake relief in Haiti will mean cuts for programs in other parts of the world. (Washington Post)
"Rich countries have no excuse for failing to deliver the aid increases they promised five years ago at Gleneagles. The missing $21 billion could pay for every child [in the world] to go to school and could save the lives of two million of the poorest mothers and children." Max Lawson at Oxfam on a study showing that aid to developing countries from richer nations will fail to hit targets set five years ago at the Gleneagles summit. (BBC)
When people are not treated right, you have an obligation to do something about it ... So get in the way, get in trouble -- but good trouble." Rep. John Lewis, U.S. House member from Georgia and civil rights veteran, speaking at Central Piedmont Community College. (Charlotte Observer)
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