Author: Blazingcatfur

Seattle ‘equity’ asshole banned workers from displaying Christmas or Hanukkah decorations in their homes while on Zoom calls, to avoid offending colleagues with different beliefs

Calls itself – Gloria Ngezaho

A Seattle official has been handed a sarcastic award for banning city workers from displaying Christmas or Hanukkah decorations in their own homes while on Zoom calls to avoid offending colleagues with different beliefs.

Gloria Ngezaho is the workforce equity manager for King County, which encompasses Seattle, and was handed the Ebenezer Award from the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty.

Ngezaho’s draconian edict was first revealed in November, and he was handed the award last week over his ‘Guidelines for Holiday Decorations’ rules.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Most Canadians Have Positive View of Sacred Texts: Survey

Three in five (58 percent) Canadians have read or otherwise engaged with the Bible recently or at some point as an adult, finds a new online survey, adding that while most Canadians (60 percent) have a positive view of the major sacred texts, many are not engaged with those texts.

Cardus, a non-partisan Christian think tank, commissioned Angus Reid to poll over 4,000 Canadians on their faith. The respondents, from the Angus Reid Forum group, included 1,948 self-identified Christians, 211 Muslims, 202 Jews, 88 individuals from other faiths, and 1,567 persons with no religious identity.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inReligion

Whoever persuaded Bono he could sing?

Even his parents dismissed the idea, but his yowling has sold so many records that he has mistaken himself for a great rock star

There are a few pop stars whose work I can’t help liking in spite of myself – their song-writing, that is. I’d be happy never to see the faces or hear the voices of Mick Hucknall or Chris Martin again, but the moment ‘Stars’ or ‘Trouble’ starts, I’m mesmerised – only to wonder crossly the minute the song ends: ‘Why couldn’t they have given it to someone with a decent voice?’ Think about it: dancers have choreographers and actors have scriptwriters, so why should we assume songwriters can sing? Bono’s another. I love some of his songs (‘One’, as performed by Johnny Cash, and ‘Where the Streets Have No Name’, by the Pet Shop Boys), but when faced with the awful actuality of his yowling, I remember what Prince once said about him: ‘You know what I’d do with a voice like that? Become a janitor.’

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCelebrity Idiots

Canada urges Taliban to reverse decision on banning women from NGO work

OTTAWA – Canada’s international development minister is calling on the Taliban to reverse its decision to bar women from working at non-governmental organizations in Afghanistan.

Harjit Sajjan’s comments come as several major international aid groups announce plans to suspend operations in the country taken over by the Taliban, a listed terrorist entity, in August 2021.

Millions have been thrown into poverty since then and and are now facing hunger, with the United Nations estimating as many as six million Afghans are currently at risk of famine. The International Committee of the Red Cross has also reported an increase in malnutrition and pneumonia among children, with concerns only mounting given the onset of winter.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inAfghanistan, Canada, WTF?

Suspect in Paris shooting ‘had pathological hatred of foreigners’

The French man detained over the killing of three Kurdish people in Paris last week has told investigators he had a “pathological” hatred of foreigners, the city’s prosecutor said on Sunday.

The 69-year-old man was arrested on Friday after shooting dead two men and a woman in a Kurdish cultural centre and nearby Kurdish cafe in the 10th district of Paris, which the French president, Emmanuel Macron, described as a “vile” attack on the Kurds of France.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", France, Islam, Islam and violence

Idiot Leftist Of The Year Nominees: The Honorable Mentions

“There are a lot of leftist idiots in our country, with each seemingly seeking to out-crazy the other on a regular basis. How can you just pick five to represent all of them without acknowledging the many, many others who, for whatever reason, just fell short of the expanded podium? The fact is, you can’t. So these are the honorable (or dishonorable) mentions for idiot leftist of the year.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Progressives

How political was Jesus? His historical life has never been transparent

Blaise Pascal is right to have jotted in one of his baroque notebooks that Jesus lived “in such obscurity… that historians writing of important matters of state hardly noticed him”. And Erich Auerbach is right to have stressed in a book he wrote in Istanbul, exiled from Hitler’s Reich, that Jesus’s death was “a provincial incident”. This is what makes it so remarkable that the life and death of an impoverished Galilean rabbi are described in a number of non-Christian texts from the first centuries of our era.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inChristianity

Germany’s Energy Crisis Is a Cue to Chop Wood and Stock Up

The high cost of natural gas and electricity is prompting many to prepare for outages and shortages. For some, it’s been a way of life for years.

Tightly stacked cords of wood line the side of a couple’s home in southern Germany, while another family farther north has lined their basement with shelves stacked with pasta, rice, cooking oil and cans of chickpeas, lentils and tomatoes.

In central Germany, a man long wary of relying on the government has ensured that he can make it through weeks without power or heat; he’s filled his attic with coolers to hold food, along with a camping stove, gas canisters and solar power equipment to keep the lights on and stay connected online. Others brave the chilly waters of a local lake for a daily dip, forgoing a hot shower at home.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Energy Matters", Germany

The cleansing of comedy must be resisted

In 2023, comedians have got to fight for their right to be offensive, rude and wrong.

2022 was not a golden year for comedy.

It was defined, as so much is these days, by the contours and entrenchments of the culture war. By the endless struggle between freedom – including the freedom to be offensive, rude and wrong – and censorship. By the divide between those who think comedy should be a Safe Space for the performer, and those who seem to have cultivated their sense of humour through assiduously attending a series of workshops run by human resources.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Cancel Culture"

Meghan and Harry’s Master Class in How Not to Treat Family

Prince Creep & Princess Creepier

They want endless praise for abandoning their duties.

Nothing gets you in the Christmas spirit quite like a highly public family feud. I know, I know — you don’t care about the royals. But the latest episodes in Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s Netflix series exemplify the modern trend of abandoning family pieties.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Woke Royals"

Behind the Scenes of It’s a Wonderful Life

She points out easily overlooked but illuminating particulars

Body aches, chills, fatigue, dizziness, shortness of breath: for the third time since the COVID pandemic began, I’ve either got the damn thing or some other malady with very similar symptoms. It’s unpleasant, it’s uncomfortable, and, above all, it’s a big, big bore, if only because it makes it a lot harder to get writing done and, even worse, may put the kibosh on our usual family Christmas. Lingering in bed these last couple of days, I’ve shuffled back and forth between consciousness and unconsciousness, and at one point I found myself trapped in that tiresome no man’s land between the two, where one’s mind churns out an exhausting series of bizarre and disjointed thoughts — although “thoughts” isn’t exactly the right word for them — that make no sense whatsoever. In other words, pretty much the sort of stuff that Joy and Whoopi say on The View every day when they’re supposedly wide awake.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inChristmas

One WSJ editor’s war on UFOs

A reader pointed me to one of the stranger articles to ever grace the pages of the Wall Street Journal last night. Holman W. Jenkins Jr. is a member of the WSJ’s editorial board who reports on business and financial matters. But the subject he weighed in on yesterday had little to do with those matters. The title was, “The UFO Crowd Wants an Alien Invasion for Christmas.” The even more curious subtitle reads, “The Pentagon discovers it’s not the flying saucers but their admirers who may be the real security threat.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"UFO's"

As Applications Fall, Police Departments Lure Recruits With Bonuses and Attention

Many police chiefs say staffing levels have not rebounded from a wave of resignations that started with the pandemic and the 2020 unrest.

WASHINGTON — As American police departments seek to overcome an exodus of disgruntled officers and a sudden decline in applications, they are wooing recruits with some of the tactics a football coach might use to land a prized quarterback.

In Fairfax County, Va., in the suburbs of Washington, future officers are being treated to a “signing day” ceremony where they formally accept their job offers.

Out-of-state residents who want to join the police force in Louisville, Ky., are being flown in to take entrance tests, put up in a hotel and paired with an officer for a ride-along.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Depolicing"