Scrolling around...August 14, 2012

Investors Prepare for Euro Collapse
...Banks, investors and companies are bracing themselves for the possibility that the euro will break up -- and are thus increasing the likelihood that precisely this will happen.
There is increasing anxiety, particularly because politicians have not managed to solve the problems. Despite all their efforts, the situation in Greece appears hopeless. Spain is in trouble and, to make matters worse, Germany's Constitutional Court will decide in September whether the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) is even compatible with the German constitution...

Federal court upholds firing of Christian bus driver who would not work on Sunday
...“To accommodate his request, New Jersey Transit, which operates on a seven-day per week schedule, would have been required to shift some Sunday driving to other drivers,” the Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled. “This accommodation would have placed an undue hardship on New Jersey Transit as Fouche’s election not to drive on certain Sundays would have resulted in a breach of the seniority provision of the union’s collective bargaining agreement, thus raising a legal issue.”...

A Mosque Is Not Like a Church or a Synagogue
...No free individual will exists or is allowed when it comes to practices and observances. Sharia must be strictly followed. A mosque is a symbol of this ultimate authority and serves the function of organizing every aspect of life in a Muslim community...

Is it hateful to suggest gays can change?
...Burnett couldn't believe that a Christian would suggest that homosexuals can or would even need to "change." In the course of her remarks, she told Mohler that his statements were "crazy" and "hateful." As usual, Mohler did a fantastic job representing the Gospel and parrying the push-back from a hostile host...

Pakistan: another Christian arrested on unsubstantiated ‘blasphemy’ charges
...Rev. Zafar Bhatti, who heads the Jesus World Mission, has been jailed after Muslims complained that he had insulted Islam in text messages. Christian leaders say that the charges reflect personal animosities against the Protestant minister...

Executive branch porn problem: Bureaucrats risk national security breaches
...This past week, the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency warned its staff not to view porn on U.S. government computers. The Pentagon also released a report on April’s Secret Service Colombian scandal. The two are connected...

Complaints prompt water park to end discounts for church groups
Now, no one gets the discount...

Elderly patients losing nearly every N.J. hospital some Medicare money
Beginning in October, the federal Medicare program will withhold some money from nearly every hospital in New Jersey because too many elderly patients have to return within a month of being discharged, according to an analysis by the Kaiser Health News...

Some universities require students to use e-textbooks
Students don't seem to want to buy e-textbooks. So some schools are simply forcing them...

New Obama panic: Romney crowd sizes
The recent frantic email theme to supporters from Team Obama about Mitt Romney's run-away fundraising successes has been expanded to the crowd size gap between the thousands who rushed out over the weekend to see Romney and new running mate Rep. Paul Ryan and the hundreds who cheered on President Obama...

N.T. Wright’s How God Became King
...Theologian N.T. Wright’s most recent book, How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels, squarely takes on this implication of American Evangelicalism’s “premillennial” theology. Yet as Wright relates in the preface, the book aims to draw the attention of Christian layfolk in all churches to a set of important, yet often overlooked, themes useful to understanding the richness of the gospels...