Thanks, Tarkus. LOL!
Posted on 03/29/2007 2:39:37 PM PDT by Tarkus2040
In our hearts, you're always pitching a shutout, milady.
You are confusing me...I thought it was Thursday, even tho it SHOULD be Friday. :)
Despite being rebuffed by the local bishop and the Vatican, Muslims are still trying to retake the Cordoba cathedral. "Catholic-Muslim turf war still resonates at Cordoba cathedral: The scuffle over La Mezquita is echoed throughout Spain these days as members of each faith tests the other's tolerance" is a weepy piece by Tracy Wilkinson in the Los Angeles Times (thanks to all who sent this in), lamenting that Muslims can't pray there. It never seems to occur to her that there are innumerable churches all over the Islamic world that were turned into mosques, and no one is agitating in Constantinople for the Hagia Sophia to be opened again for public Christian prayer, or in Damascus for the Umayyad Mosque, built atop a demolished church dedicated to St. John the Baptist, to be opened to Christians.
And why is that? What makes Cordoba different from Istanbul or Damascus? Does Tracy Wilkinson know? Does Tracy Wilkinson care?
CORDOBA, SPAIN — Mansur Escudero knew the answer before he asked.Approaching the guard at Cordoba's majestic once-a-mosque, now-a-cathedral, Escudero posed the question: May I say Muslim prayers inside?
The slightly startled Spanish guard gave an emphatic no. This is a Catholic church, he said, and as such it is absolutely prohibited to pray in any other faith. Escudero persisted, but the guard was firm.
This is a cathedral, the guard repeated, growing more agitated: "A CA-THO-LIC CHURCH."
The 1,200-year-old architectural wonder that is one of Spain's most renowned landmarks is at the center of a turf war over religious space, cultural recognition and rivalries that are both ancient and contemporary.
Known as La Mezquita in Spanish and the Great Mosque in English, its spectacular forest of striped arches and jasper-and-marble columns constitutes one of ancient Islam's most iconic legacies. But La Mezquita has served as a consecrated Catholic church for nearly 800 years — ever since Spain's Catholic monarchs ejected Islamic forces that had ruled most of the Iberian Peninsula for more than five centuries.
The scuffle over La Mezquita is echoed throughout Spain these days as members of each faith tests the other's tolerance in this overwhelmingly Roman Catholic country with a fast-growing Muslim minority. Tensions were further inflamed when Islamic militants blew up commuter trains in Madrid three years ago, killing nearly 200 people.
The dispute has special resonance in Cordoba, an Andalusian crossroads that beginning more than a millennium ago was the capital of Moorish Spain and one of the Western world's greatest centers of intellectual and artistic culture.
Some of today's Muslims may long for Islam's glorious past, but Mansur Escudero insists he just wants a place to pray.
"We could be an example for the world," he said, "awakening the consciences of both Christians and Muslims and showing it's possible to put aside past conflicts."
Great. Restore the Hagia Sophia as a cathedral, and we'll talk about Cordoba.
Thor's Day!
Thanks, Tarkus. LOL!
Repeat of the Spanish olive oil recommendation. LOL!
I feel like it's the Spanish inquisition!!
Especially with the retread of the Spanish rice recipe. LOL!
Yep and it's usually a Thursday. Been that way for more than a decade that I've been listening. Tomorrow will likely be a guest host.
COOKING OIL SCANDAL HURTS SPAIN ABROAD
By JAMES M. MARKHAM, Published: October 19, 1981
A scandal involving the illicit sale of toxic cooking oil, which has taken at least 160 lives and spread panic among Spanish consumers, has begun to concern nations that import Spanish canned goods and vegetable oils.
A week ago, the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, voted in favor of a system that would permit the rapid withdrawal of contaminated products sold in the Common Market in light of the Spanish situation, which has affected some 15,000 people who consumed rapeseed oil that had been intended for industrial use.
The European Parliament, though, appeared to have been partly pacified by a report from Ivor Richards, the Common Market's Social Affairs Commissioner, that rigorous testing had found no signs of contamination in Spanish goods exported to the market.
As a precautionary measure, Italy earlier this month temporarily blocked imports of Spanish olive oil and canned goods such as fish that contain oil until health authorities had determined the toxic agent that has produced the fatalities. The French Government is expected to follow the Italian example by banning the import of similar products for three months beginning tomorrow.
A Blow to the Government
The spreading European rejection of Spanish food exports is seen here as another blow to the troubled Government of Prime Minister Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo, which has been widely perceived as sluggish and inept in its responses to the adulteration scandal.
''This of course is first of all a tragic public health problem,'' said a European diplomat here who has been closely monitoring the implications of the mass poisoning. ''but I think the Spanish authorities are only beginning to realize that it could become an economic catastrophe as well.''
In a parliamentary debate on the question last month, the opposition Socialist Party called for the censure of five ministers, including Health Minister Jesus Sancho Rof, who took off on vacation this summer when specialists were still disputing the exact origins of the poisoning.
Since then, investigators have pinpointed a handful of companies that imported denatured rapeseed oil, which had been specifically treated with aniline to make it fit only for industrial use, and others that had processed it at high temperatures to rid it of its chemical taste and color. It appears that either this processing or the manner in which the oil was transported converted the aniline into a substance, anilide, which may be a toxic agent in combination with rapeseed oil. 21 Brands Listed as Toxic
A total of 21 brands of cooking oil, which in many cases had been sold by ambulatory vendors, have so far been listed as toxic by the Government, which believes that the bulk of the poison oil has now been withdrawn from the market. But only yesterday in Madrid a shop was discovered selling one of the first brands to have been banned.
A large majority of the people attacked by the toxic syndrome come from poor and rural families in Madrid, Castile and Leon who were tempted by the low prices of the rapeseed oil, which is heavily used in Spanish cooking. But medical experts, including a World Health Organization team that is doing an epidemiological study in Avila, are still baffled by the exact mechanism of the syndrome since animal studies with anilide have not reproduced the same disease patterns.
When the first death occurred in May, doctors and the press began calling the disease ''atypical pneumonia,'' since victims complained frequently of respiratory complications, as well as skin rashes and sores. But it is now evident that the poisoning generates a poliolike atrophy of muscles that, in fatal cases, ends in the collapse of the lungs.
More than 800 people are still hospitalized, and doctors report that the small but persistent weekly death list is composed mostly of relapses, not new, acute cases, which suggests that not many fresh poisonings are occurring.
But no cure has been found that can reverse the syndrome and restore patients to full health, and specialists are worried about the prospects of the 15,000 people known to have been affected, as well as long-term genetic consequences for newborn babies.
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Imagine olive oil in a box like the wine in the box. LOL!
Tomorrow is one day before his 65th birthday, so I think he might show up for that, unless they have a big party planned for him.
WOOOHOOOO!!
I AM AND ALWAYS WILL BE
That was Peter the "progressive" from last week who really got under Mike's skin with his shots about Mike not being let into Berkely as a prof.
Why would Savage want to teach there?! Only people who can't make it the real world end up in the ivory towers.
Iran and its Islamo-allies are preparing for war against us, Britain and Israel, and we're cruising the Persian Gulf like it's a weekend vacation in San Francisco Bay, while our soldiers-turned-policemen patrol the Iraq streets as targets for Iranian "insurgents". This is not simply the "War in Iraq," but rather the "War in Iraq with Iran"! This applies to Israel as well. It's time to unleash US, British and Israeli air power against Iran's sea ports and military/energy (nuclear) production installations!
What?! Savage isn't on live today?!
Normally Wednesday is the day Savage takes a mental health break. What's up?!
As luck wound have it I just heard something on another station. I didn't need the encouragement but John Podhoretz's enumeration of the accomplishments of Fred Thompson eliminates all doubts about the man. Thompson in 2008. Period end of story. :)
Mr. Podhoretz has written lots about the next president of the United States.
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