Can I suggest you head over to Akma’s blog to read his post about the death of Aaron Swartz. It is moving and thoughtful and expresses more eloquently than I can how I feel about this death.
Most people won’t know Aaron’s name. However we all get the benefit of his work.
As Akma says, “the churches have an intrinsic interest in communication, free communication, profligate communication.”
Hear, hear.
I wondered how you were fairing in the city that’s reported to have voted Yes.
Just to let you know, you can best guage what it means in your neck o’ the woods, but that form of salute is still used in a number of countries in the world and isn’t associated in any respect with Nazism. That salute is common in Mexico, as it was in the US before WW2.
http://rationalrevolution.net/images/salute2.jpg
However, they have since opted for the right hand flat over the heart and we get flack from our northern neighbors for our “Nazi” salute to our flag.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Civil_Salute_Mexican_Flag.jpg/477px-Civil_Salute_Mexican_Flag.jpg
The gesture they were making here is entirely associated in local minds with the nazis.
I gather that there were EDL/SDL members present, in addition to the usual Lodge suspects. This may go some way to explaining the Nazi salutes.
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I've put together a new website over the last couple of days.It is a campaign website for the local political party which I belong to.Oh, and there is some rather interesting news on it about someone that you know, so you might want to take a look.The url is http://www.stirlinglibdems.org.uk/kelvin/html/ though it will also soon…
As part of what I want to say tonight, I want to reflect on the year that has gone by. It has been a particularly busy year at St Saviour?s. The numbers of people coming to services was up on last year?s figures. Now, there are always particular factors which can affect numbers ? the…
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