This article

is really about religion news and the correct (and incorrect) reporting of it (coming from GetReligion.org as it does).

Why dunk the baby elephants?

For me? I can't help but think how much fun that baby elephant seems to be having, and then I start to think of how so many are endangered now due to our greed and self-interest...

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Scientists are usually more careful...

...so this just shows how simple it would be for things to get moved around to where they shouldn't be. And how they already have been.

Warning over deep-ocean stowaways

Of course, the real risk is once commerce gets into it and people start doing 'recreational' dives in vessels like this (don't laugh - civilians have paid go go into space already). Once free enterprise gets into it anything that costs more money will be dropped, so don't expect things to get checked as well. Their only concern will be the pocketbook...

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What else to expect from them?

Canada not on board with Vatican on water as a human right

Canada, once an upholder of democracy and defender of the downtrodden, is now the home of upholders of free enterprise and defenders of Capitalism.

If only John G. could see what those who call themselves political Conservatives really behave like! The current crop of Conservatives are nothing but upholders of the 'money trumps everything' school of politics, and 'them that has, gets. And let us (the government) help them get more. Poverty is poor people's own fault. God has blessed us (well, me) with affluence.'.

It's just too much...

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Great Youtube for today

Annie Leonard and her fantastic animators do it again with Bottled Water

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Yes!

Water is human right, not a for-profit commodity, says Vatican council

And don't let Coke or anyone else tell you anything different! Just because they can bottle and sell it doesn't mean that it should then become their property to sell. Governments, though under the thumbs of corporations, none-the-less need to agree with this and act like it, not like the bought and paid for stooges of the corporations...

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