Web: Time for the news roundup

(Sorry for the gap in blog postings. My wife had a bicycle accident and smacked the concrete. So I've had my caregiver cap on).

Here's what we've missed in the news:

Visitors to the Gaia Napa Valley Hotel and Spa won't find the Gideon Bible in the nightstand drawer. Instead, on the bureau will be a copy of An Inconvenient Truth, former Vice President Al Gore's book about global warming.

(I suppose they'll also take those paintings of Jesus off the wall and put up framed photos of Deepak Chopra).

On the other coast, officials take a less tolerant view of all this New Age folderol.

Alerted to an obscure state law banning fortune-telling "for gain or lucre," Philadelphia authorities have closed at least 16 storefront fortune-tellers, astrologers, phrenologists and tarot-card readers. One fortune-teller alleged discrimination, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. He noted that critics "considered that Jesus was a psychic, a fortune-teller, and they crucified him."

Of course, folks out in Mormon country display the most common sense:

Utah County District Chairman Don Larsen has submitted a formal resolution at the Utah County Republican Convention to oppose what he calls the devil’s plan to destroy the country through illegal immigration, according to the Salt Lake Tribune.

"In order for Satan to establish his 'New World Order' and destroy the freedom of all people as predicted in the Scriptures, he must first destroy the U.S.," his resolution says. "The mostly quiet and unspectacular invasion of illegal immigrants does not focus the attention of the nations the way open warfare does, but is all the more insidious for its stealth and innocuousness."

The devil? That's "El Diablo" to you, Don. Get used to it.


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