12/24/11 ATHEIST GROUP FAILS TO GET AIR FORCE NATIVITY DISPLAY BANNED: "Travis Air Force Base in California has decided it will not ban a nativity scene and menorah from a showcase of 24 Christmas displays along one of the base’s main thoroughfares — in spite of threats from the atheist Military Religious Freedom Foundation. That group insisted that only displays of Santa Claus, reindeer and snowmen be allowed. The 24 Christmas displays are each sponsored by a different squadron or ..."
http://blog.beliefnet.com/news/2011/12/travis-afb-wont-remove-nativity-scene.php
12/28/11 NUDE MUSLIM WOMAN's TATTOO EMASCULATES PAKISTAN's 'FBI' : "In one fell swoop, the enormous tattoo on a bare woman's body managed to demystify, emasculate and parody the ISI -- something most people have been afraid to do in public since the inception of the agency a year after the birth of the nation in 1947. Founded with a mission of coordinating intelligence in the country after Pakistan's loss to India in the 1947 war in Kashmir, the agency has become a feared, though privately mocked, enterprise, its hands allegedly in every back-room Pakistani deal; rigging elections, training militants for battle in India and Afghanistan, and monitoring its own citizens. The tattoo's location on Malik's body takes on special meaning in light of retired Adm. Mike Mullen's statement in September that the militant Haqqani Network, considered by most Western analysts and experts to be based in the tribal areas of Pakistan, is a..."
http://afpak.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/12/21/the_real_shame_in_pakistan
12/28/11 NUDE MUSLIM WOMAN's TATTOO EMASCULATES PAKISTAN's 'FBI' : "In one fell swoop, the enormous tattoo on a bare woman's body managed to demystify, emasculate and parody the ISI -- something most people have been afraid to do in public since the inception of the agency a year after the birth of the nation in 1947. Founded with a mission of coordinating intelligence in the country after Pakistan's loss to India in the 1947 war in Kashmir, the agency has become a feared, though privately mocked, enterprise, its hands allegedly in every back-room Pakistani deal; rigging elections, training militants for battle in India and Afghanistan, and monitoring its own citizens. The tattoo's location on Malik's body takes on special meaning in light of retired Adm. Mike Mullen's statement in September that the militant Haqqani Network, considered by most Western analysts and experts to be based in the tribal areas of Pakistan, is a..."
http://afpak.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/12/21/the_real_shame_in_pakistan