Quips....Quirks....

.....and Quandaries

It is only a flag....it doesn't mean anything.

The Unitarian Universality church in my hometown of Mountain Home, Arkansas recently published a letter in the local paper letting the community know that they welcome everyone at their church regardless of race, religion, or sexual orientation.
The reaction? The church had its windows shot out one night and were left this note:

A Shiite Muslim has his child gashed with a knife during a Muharram procession ahead of Ashura. Ashura, which falls on the 10th day of the Islamic month of Muharram, commemorates the death of Imam Hussein, grandson of Prophet Muhammad, who was killed in the seventh-century battle of Karbala.

Palestinian schoolchildren ride a motorcycle rickshaw past the ruins of houses that witnesses said were destroyed by Israeli shelling during the most recent conflict between Israel and Hamas, on a rainy day in the southern Gaza Strip

David Koch, proud new owner of the Senate.