News from the Nest
Ore. Faith-Healers Sentenced To Prison For Son's Death
54 min 18 sec agoThe judge who sentenced a couple to prison yesterday for the death of their son says members of their church must quit relying on faith-healing when their childrens lives are at stake. The fact is, too many children have died unnecessarily a graveyard full, Judge Steven Maurer said. This has to stop. Maurer spoke in a quiet, unemotional voice as he led up to his conclusion: Jeffrey an
Basic Food Sold Additive After Salmonella Found, FDA Says
54 min 18 sec agoBasic Flavors Inc., the Las Vegas company at the center of a recall of more than 100 food products, continued to make and distribute food ingredients for about a month after it learned the bacteria salmonella was present at its processing facility, according to a Food and Drug Administration report. The FDA last week recommended companies recall products, from chips to soups, that contain a com
'Archaeology': Priestess Tomb Unearthed On Crete
54 min 18 sec agoAn unearthed tomb on Crete reveals a dynasty of priestesses reigned on the isle during the "Dark Ages" of ancient Greece. In an Archaeology magazine report, writer Eti Bonn-Muller details the results from last summer's excavation of a tomb at Orthi Petra at Eleutherna on Crete, where a team found the burials of a high priestess of Zeus and three acolytes this summer. "People then may have co
Barking Up The Wrong Sacred Tree
54 min 18 sec agoI think we have some pagans living in our part of town. Several, actually - and not all in one big, leafy communal house, either. They're sprinkled about the neighborhood like elf-dust. Which is fine. Pagans on the whole are a fairly interesting if occasionally goofy set of folks - whereas I'm just sour-tempered and my car is ugly and smashed into the backyard fence at a comical angle on a b
Update: Reservist Accused Of Attacking Priest Won't Be Charged
54 min 18 sec agoProsecutors will not pursue charges against a Marine reservist accused of beating a Greek Orthodox priest with a tire iron. Reservist Jasen Bruce said he simply was defending himself from a man who propositioned him and grabbed his genitals. Mike Sinacore, head of the felony division of the Hillsborough County state attorney's office, said his office reviewed the law, the evidence, the testi
Vikram Bhatt Resorts To Witchcraft
54 min 18 sec agoVikram Bhatts forthcoming film Shaapit incorporates Theban, or the Witches Alphabet. It is used in witchcraft to hide magical writing from prying eyes. The director has researched Theban extensively before using it in the film. He says, Theban is universally known.
Meet The Texas Taliban
54 min 18 sec agoThe group thinkprogress.org reports that a Texas town has assumed a position similar to the group Hezbollah, whose name equates to "Army of God". Their motto is "spritual warfare" against all who don't believe in their Christianity. The evangelical Christian hate group "Repent Amarillo" is reportedly terrorizing the town of Amarillo, Texas. Repent fashions itself as a sort of militia and tar
Scientists Misread Data On Global Warming Controversy
54 min 18 sec ago"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you," then, with apologies to Kipling, you might not be a climate scientist. Well-publicized troubles have mounted for those forecasting global warming. First, there was last year's release of hacked e-mails from the United Kingdom's University of East Anglia, showing some climate scientists really dislike their c
Same-Sex Couples In D.C. Set To Say 'I Do'
54 min 18 sec agoD.C. joins Connecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts and Iowa in allowing same-sex marriage. Dozens of same-sex couples plan to marry in the District of Columbia on Tuesday, the first day that such unions will be legal in the nation's capital. The new law survived a Supreme Court challenge last week, when the measure went into effect, but couples had to hold off until Tuesday becaus
Useful Scots Word: Glamour
54 min 18 sec agoMany of the televised reports on the recent Oscars ceremony were as much concerned with what the rich and famous were wearing as with the identity of the winners and the losers. There for us all to see was the fact that Hollywood is still synonymous with glamour. But what is this do with Scots? A great deal, because the word glamour has its origin in the Scots language. Glamour in Scots meant e
Teen To Wed Schoolgirl In Pagan Ceremony
54 min 18 sec agoA teenager plans to marry a schoolgirl in a pagan ceremony next month with the brides mother officiating. Using a simple length of rope, Alex Stewart-Pole and Jenni Birch will become partners for a year and a day through the ancient ritual. A handfasting can then be renewed for the same or a longer period. Pagan marriage is not recognised under Australian law, which stipulates those mar
Dowsers Hold Divining Workshop
54 min 18 sec agoDowsers from all over Canada are pointing their divining rods at Olds College. The Canadian Society of Questers, a group that promotes the ancient art of divining, will hold their spring conference at the agricultural college north of Calgary from May 14-17 and hope to open the minds of skeptics. The centuries-old practise of using sticks and rods to divine the location of water, minerals or
500 Butchered In Nigeria Killing Fields
54 min 18 sec agoDozens of bodies lined the dusty streets of three Christian villages in northern Nigeria yesterday. Other victims of Sunday mornings Muslim rampage were jammed into a local morgue, the limbs of slaughtered children tangled in a grotesque mess. One toddler appeared fixed in the protective but hopeless embrace of an older child, possibly his brother. Another had been scalped. Most had severed ha
Icelandic Folk Legends Tales of Apparitions, Outlaws and Things Unseen (Book Review)
54 min 18 sec agoIcelandic Folk Legends Tales of Apparitions, Outlaws and Things Unseen is a collection of Icelandic folktales translated by one of Icelands most widely read bloggers, Alda Sigmundsdóttir of the Iceland Weather Report, first published by Bjartur in 1997 and republished in 2007. The small and handy book includes the translation of 12 folk stories, both stories that practically every Icelander
Organization Meeting Set To Explain Pre-Christian Pagan Religion
54 min 18 sec agoIf the only thing you know about the Asatru religion is that a convicted killer lost his legal bid for a plastic sword so he could practice it at the South Dakota State Penitentiary, then Harold Chant has an invitation for you. Chant, of Rapid City, is hosting an organizational meeting for people interested in the teaching and practice of the ancient pre-Christian religion that dominated much o
National Women's History Project's 30th Anniversary
54 min 18 sec agoUsed to be, a woman had to wield a sharp instrument to get any respect in history class. Until the late 1970s, those who got the most ink in school textbooks were Betsy Ross, the widowed upholsterer who is said to have sewn the first American flag in 1776, and Carrie Nation, the hatchet-wielding, Bible-thumping temperance activist who broke up saloons in the early 1900s. There were also brief m
Occult Funeral For Drug Addict Killed In Ritual
54 min 18 sec agoA pagan rocker died at his drug-den farmhouse after a witchcraft ritual went nightmarishly wrong. Junkie Jason Barriskill who worked in the Tayto Castle food lab was found slumped at his isolated home in Tandragee, Co Armagh, a fortnight ago. His body was surrounded by occult symbols and his sprawling 60-acre property housed massive opium and cannabis labs.
Top Home-School Texts Dismiss Darwin, Evolution
Tue, 03/09/2010 - 10:51pmHome-school mom Susan Mule wishes she hadn't taken a friend's advice and tried a textbook from a popular Christian publisher for her 10-year-old's biology lessons. Mule's precocious daughter Elizabeth excels at science and has been studying tarantulas since she was 5. But she watched Elizabeth's excitement turn to confusion when they reached the evolution section of the book from Apologia Educa
Va. AG: Colleges Can't Ban Gay Discrimination
Tue, 03/09/2010 - 10:51pmVirginia's attorney general is advising the state's public colleges to rescind policies that prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation. Kenneth Cuccinelli says in a letter to college presidents and other officials that only the General Assembly can determine which classes of people are protected by state government nondiscrimination policies.
New Jersey Snow Sculpture Gets Frosty Reception
Mon, 03/08/2010 - 10:22pmPolice in the US state of New Jersey have ordered a family to cover up their snow sculpture of the famous nude Venus de Milo after a neighbour complained. Eliza Gonzalez sculpted the snow-woman with her son and daughter on her front lawn in Rahway following a snowstorm.
