There is an awesome Facebook page with over 23,000 likes called Lost/Found Pets/WaState and thousands of our local people follow it.  In early January a resident of Enumclaw made a plea for help to find her injured dog and this is her remarkable story of what happened. It is a story about love, faith and a community that supports one another in times of troubles.

To read the story online and comments from the many people who offered their concern and support, go HERE.

https://www.facebook.com/LostFoundPetsWaState

The Constitution Article 6 Section 3 – “…..but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States”.(2)

Glenn Beck : “We are clearly a Judeo-Christian nation.”

‘For the last three years, right-wing Christian groups have been distributing Bibles to students in the Orange County, Florida, public schools system every January on “National Freedom of Religion Day.”

‘This year, after atheist groups and Satanists sought to likewise distribute materials to students, the school system suspended the program and Glenn Beck is predictably furious’.

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(1) : http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/beck-our-founding-principles-require-christianity-receive-preferential-treatment

(2) : http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articlevi

Mexican Students Didn’t Just ‘Disappear’

Describing them as ‘missing’ is missing the context

By Andalusia Knoll

Large anti-government demonstrations were held across Mexico in the wake of the disappearance of 43 student teachers abducted in Iguala, Guerrero, in September

The forced disappearance of 43 students from a rural teachers college in Mexico has catapulted the security crisis that the US’s southern neighbours are living into northern headlines. However, the majority of English-language news accounts have failed to provide a deeper context concerning the failed war on drugs and the use of forced disappearances as a repressive state tactic, and employ language that often criminalizes the disappeared students.

On the night of September 26, approximately 80 students in the south-western state of Guerrero were travelling through the small city of Iguala in a bus caravan on their way back to their teacher training college in Ayotzinapa. In Iguala they were intercepted by municipal…

(Photo via Reuters)

In a change of tune, Egyptian President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi acknowledged on Tuesday that Egypt’s police committed human rights abuses after the overthrow of his predecessor, but said they were expected given the “exceptional” security threats faced by the country.

Here is my brief interview with Radio France Internationale on why El- Sisi has changed his tune and what we should expect from him.