Pursuing Holiness

UN classifies rape a 'war tactic':

The UN Security Council has voted unanimously in favour of a resolution classifying rape as a weapon of war.

The document describes the deliberate use of rape as a tactic in war and a threat to international security.

Remember Those Iraqi Benchmarks? Well, Guess What…

Robbed of benchmark-rage, the Democrats have been floundering in their search for a substantive argument against the evident progress in present-day Iraq. Hoisted by their own petard, the anti-war crowd has become the enemy of cold, hard facts. Today they talk of John McCain’s “neo-imperial” ambition to keep peacetime troops in Mesopotamia, as if the U.S. didn’t already have thousands of troops stationed around the globe serving in just that capacity.

An employer told employees that they would either quit smoking or be fired. But he didn't stop there -

he extended his smoking ban to employees’ spouses and monitored compliance through mandatory random blood testing.

I smoked for 17 years and have quit for eight; I'm now disgusted by the habit and can't believe I went so long smelling so bad. But this is ridiculous.  What next, firing employees whose spouses have high cholesterol?

Good news:

As a goodwill gesture in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision to grant writs of habeas corpus to detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, al Qaeda today announced it would grant its beheadees what it called “writs of habeas corpse.”