Two days after Christmas, in the year 2007?
I think it’s a good, bad bet that it’s so. I think we will all have to learn a thing or two that we’ve been putting off…
The meaning of the terms “Wahhabi” and “Wahhabiism,” for example.
From today’s Wall Street Journal, a very good, and succinct History of the holiday, by historian and author John Steele Gordon. A few excerpts:
“In its earliest days, Christianity did not celebrate the Nativity at all. Only two of the four Gospels even mention it. Instead, the Church calendar was centered on Easter, still by far the most important day in the Christian year. The Last Supper was a Seder, celebrating Passover, which falls on the day of the full moon in the first month of spring in the Hebrew calendar. […]
By the time of the Council of Nicea [325 AD], the Christian Church was making converts by the thousands and, in hopes of still more converts, in 354 Pope Liberius decided to add the Nativity to the church calendar. He also decided to celebrate it on Dec. 25. It was, frankly, a marketing ploy with a little political savvy thrown in.
It is now freezing in Boston, dark at 2:30 or so, and will remain so for months. And it was only weeks ago…
From the Associated Press
Hearing Resumes in HIV Misdiagnosis Suit
WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — Audrey Serrano received HIV treatments for almost nine years before receiving a stunning diagnosis: She never actually had the virus that causes AIDS.
File under:
The Associated Press reports that a Boston woman who has been taking “Aids drugs” (that’s FDA Black-Box labeled drugs, to you and me), for years has been profoundly damaged by them.
And she’s been taking them for no reason, whatsoever: She was never really “Hiv positive.”
So why is she sick? Look up “FDA Black-Box drugs” for a short answer; it’s the designation for drugs that kill or permanently injure patients who take them. You can line that up against the Aids industry’s typical line, “Life-Saving Aids Drugs,” and see the truth ends and the lies begin.
So, “Hiv tests” are not accurate? And Aids drugs kill? Never heard that on “Queer as Folk.” But is it true?
Illness and death from “life-saving” drugs? Well, yes, that’s what the Black Box is for.
Tests that test for nothing? Well, yes, the tests test for nothing particular, and then everything else, too.
Among those able to test “positive” without being positive, according to the sanctified medical literature: