There are certain kinds of ignorant, petty, cruel people in the world, the ones who tie firecrackers to frogs to see them explode, the ones who tear the wings off flies to see them suffer, and the ones who blow up buses filled with Israeli children because it is a joy in life to see Jews die.
My younger son and his wife can sleep through an earthquake or a firetruck whirling through their bedroom. Even an old-fashioned mechanical alarm clock with huge metal bells can't rouse them from their dual comas. They live in the apartment next to ours (it's all one big house with my two boys, my two daughters-in-law, my two granddaughters, my wife and me) and so we can hear the alarms going off for ten full minutes without a stir from them.
There has been a rise recently in the popularity of colon cleansers in the United States even though there has been no definitive scientific research done to determine whether or not colon cleansing is helpful or not.
Blogger Winds of Jihad asks, "Who said Muslims never invented anything?" and points us to the following story from the Jerusalem Post which finally explains why medical supplies never reached the civilian population so desperately in need of them:
Many non-Jews when they hear of the Day of Atonement think it is a day set aside to atone for sins against their fellow man; it is not. It is a day to atone for sins against God. To atone for sins against another person, you have to right any wrongs that you committed against that person before Yom Kippur.
The blog points out that America patents hundreds of thousands of inventions a year whereas the entire Muslim world has only a handful in its entire history.
