Ever wonder why you don’t get Christmas cards from your congressional representative?
Well, a 1974 statute prohibits members of Congress from sending holiday cards, personal greetings and the like. The point is that taxpayer dollars should only be used for official business.
Rep. Joe Walsh, R-Ill., he of the “Save Christmas Act,” is pushing the House to stop all this “political correctness” and let him send some durn Christmas and Hanukkah cards.
Speaking of holiday fun, a WaPo blogger is offended that a local Whole Foods stocked its Hanukkah display with matzoh, which is a Passover tradition. Whole Foods apologized for the mixup.
The National Menorah was lit in Washington last night.
You can forget about giving frankincense to a certain birthday boy. A study says ecological pressures in Ethiopia are killing the trees that produce the perfume.
The UN adopted a resolution against religious intolerance and left out the defamation language the U.S. and other countries were concerned about.
A Pew study finds that only one quarter of Christianity’s 2.8 billion adherents live in Europe, as the faith’s center of gravity shifts southward.
A conservative Christian leader in Iowa asked Michele Bachmann to back out of the presidential race and endorse Rick Santorum, according to CNN.
Bachmann’s husband, Marcus, doesn’t sound like he’s ready to give up. He said his First Spouse agenda “is not going to be happy meals,” but rather promoting heterosexual marriage. Not sure how McDonald’s got involved in the discussion.
An Ohio man decided to fire a bullet in the air after cleaning his rifle. The bullet traveled over a mile and killed an Amish girl coming home from a Christmas party.
An evangelical pastor has been arrested by police in Bolivia after a sibling died during a bathtub exorcism.
A Canadian Roman Catholic bishop charged with importing child pornography apologized. Bishop Raymond Lahey’s collection included photos of young boys wearing crucifixes and rosary beads, according to the AP.
An Orthodox rabbi who traces his lineage to King David and hobnobs with King (LeBron) James cannot account for millions of dollars donated to his congregation, according to the NYT.
Israel has pledged to release about 1 billion cubic feet of water to restore the biblical Jordan River, according to the AP.
“American Idol” runner-up David Archuleta will take a break from singing to serve a two-year Mormon mission, and Jon Bon Jovi says that heaven looks a lot like New Jersey.
So much for incentives.
Yr hmbl aggregator,
Daniel Burke
