Friday, April 19, 2019

Links For Good Friday And Passover

For Western Christians, today is Good Friday, which commemorates the death of Jesus on a Roman cross in Jerusalem.  Today is also the start of the Jewish feast of Passover, which goes on for eight days.  Starting with some related stories, here are some things going on:





From The Conservative Woman, a discussion of the Good Friday hymn O Sacred Head Sore Wounded.  (I'm familiar with the similar title O Sacred Head Surrounded.)

From the Miami New Times, a man in South Florida is arrested for allegedly leaving voicemail death threats against three Democrat federal legislators.  (The article includes foul language, apparently from the suspect himself.)

From The American Conservative, when Notre Dame Cathedral is repaired, its appearance will probably be influenced more by the state than then church.  (The article includes long quotes from the New York Magazine and Snakes And Ladders, but I don't think that the former has been correctly linked.)




From The Washington Free Beacon, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) versus the Democrats.  (To paraphrase another Bernie, the one who writes lyrics for Elton John, I could call the article "B-B-B-Bernie and the Dems".)







From Mexico News Daily, thousands of trucks are stranded waiting to cross from Mexico into the U.S.  (The wait is reportedly from the re-stationing of U.S. border agents to deal with the large number of illegal migrants trying to move northward.  Perhaps there is a lesson for Mexico here.  Stop letting the migrants pass through, and we gringos will then be able to put our agents back where they were.  Meanwhile, I have 3 MND pages left this month.)




From the (Irish) Independent, the criminals who stole two ATMs placed spikes in front of a garda station.  (The Irish word garda, which means "police", seems to have been adopted into English.  The plural is gardai.)







From the Malta Independent, Pope Francis washes the feet of prisoners.













From About Hungary, some Hungarian Easter traditions.

From Radio Praha, some Czech Easter traditions.









From The Times Of Israel, a small Samaritan community observes Passover by sacrificing a sheep.  (The Samaritans, who are mentioned in the New Testament, are still around.)





From Dawn, two teachers are arrested for allegedly inflicting corporal punishment in Abbottabad, Pakistan.  (This city is also where Osama bin Laden was found.)








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As a bonus, I want to include something which was published yesterday.  According to PJ Media, a writer at The New York Times seems to find evidence that President Trump is a Nazi in an anti-Nazi song which was used in an anti-Nazi movie being played at the White House.

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