Christ pre empted; Christians threatened, Baghdad; al Qaida succeeds; Haiti as measure of intent; Mexico in America in Afghanistan; Gitmo detainees supermen; NCAA corrupt

Message pre empted by marketing guys who could see potential for doping the masses

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "If you are as lucky as I am, remember those who are not. Give what you can, if you can, and keep your fellow citizens in mind and heart. Before Santa and presents and shopping and all the attendant Christmas bullshit got involved, this holiday was enshrined to commemorate a guy who got nailed to a tree for daring to tell people to be kind to one another. If you have two cloaks, He said, give one away. Remember those who have less than you, be charitable, be good, be merciful."

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Wasn’t a big deal when we destroyed whole Muslim city and anybody who walked in Fallujah

"Nearly two months after a shocking assault by Islamist militants, Our Lady of Salvation Catholic Church will commemorate Christmas quietly, with daytime mass and prayers for the dead, under security fit more for a prison than a house of worship. It is the same at Christian churches across Baghdad and northern Iraq, where what's left of one of the world's oldest Christian communities prepares to mark perhaps the most somber Christmas since the start of the Iraq war."

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Terrorists succeed where armies fail. Mention of al Qaida has impact of Atilla the Hun and his hordes.

WASHINGTON – The Homeland Security Department has alerted air carriers to a potential terror tactic involving insulated beverage containers like thermoses.

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Wonder why it isn’t more important to pay a trillion for a regime change in Haiti. They really need the help.

KHAR, Pakistan – A burqa-clad female suicide bomber in Pakistan lobbed hand grenades, then detonated her explosive belt among a crowd at an aid center Saturday, killing at least 45 people in militants' latest strike against the authorities' control over the key tribal region bordering Afghanistan.

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Sounds like something that happens all the time in Afghanistan

MEXICO CITY – Joseph Proctor told his girlfriend he was popping out to the convenience store in the quiet Mexican beach town where the couple had just moved, intending to start a new life.
Three soldiers have been charged with killing him. Two have been charged with planting the assault rifle in his hands and claiming falsely that he fired first, according to a Mexican Defense Department document sent to her through the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City.
It is at least the third case this year in which soldiers, locked in a brutal battle with drug cartels, have been accused of killing innocent civilians and faking evidence in cover-ups.
Such scandals are driving calls for civilian investigators to take over cases that are almost exclusively handled by military prosecutors and judges who rarely convict one of their own.

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Spiderman, Superman and other super heroes have nothing on the super power of the prisoners at Guantanamo

"President Barack Obama's hopes of closing the Guantanamo Bay detention facility appear as far from being realised as ever in the wake of new legislation approved by Congress this week. Wednesday's approval by the Senate of an amendment banning the use of Pentagon funds for 2011 to transfer detainees at Guantanamo, the U.S. naval base on Cuba, to the United States or its territories appears to guarantee that the facility will remain open for business at least through next September."

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You could see it in the cards with the choice of Heisman winner. NCAA and college athletics corrupt to core

Updated Dec 24, 2010 9:51 PM ET
When dealing out punishment to athletes, don’t apply it to the current season. Apply it only to future seasons — if the players are even still around then.

BUCKEYES SUSPENDED
Still eligible for Sugar Bowl
Who's on Buckeyes' 2011 schedule?
Video: Fiutak talks Buckeyes
Video: Ohio State responds
Photos: Suspended players
Scout: Recruits sticking with OSU
Scout: Everyone loses
Scout: 2011 questions
That’s apparently the NCAA’s new hypocritical guidelines for punishment and reinstatement of players found in violation of its rules.
At least that’s what you can glean from Thursday’s announcement that five Ohio State players will be suspended for the first five games of next season for each accepting $1,000 to $2,500 in cash in exchange for Buckeyes memorabilia. But they’ll be allowed to play in the Sugar Bowl on Jan. 4 against Arkansas.