Across Difficult Country

Spiritual fires like the ones that bedeviled Malaysia are now breaking out in Botswana : A family of eleven is begging for help after a series of mysterious fires destroyed their property and left them homeless.  The latest in a trilogy of devastating blazes occurred this week when a remaining storeroom and the police tent in which they had been sheltering also went up in flames.  The unexplained fires that have been tormenting the family in the Southern District village of Goodhope since January, has baffled police investigating the incidents...  As suspicions abound that the fires were the cause of a demonic curse, a Pentecostal church leader was expected to visit the family on a spiritual intervention mission. The Malaysian spiritual fires, you may recall, were impervious to the prayer recitations of ten ulamas . Given the trajectory of the phenomenon, FEMA should consider setting up spiritual fire monitoring stations on the East Coast, as a precautionary measure .

A Bear-Wolf prowls Wisconsin : Steve Krueger was doing his job...removing road-side deer carcasses overnight for the Department of Natural Resources. Krueger said he had just made a pick-up along a remote road near Holy Hill about 1:30 a.m., and he was in the cab doing some paperwork. When his parked truck started shaking, he looked in the rear view mirror and got the scare of his life. He said his flashing lights illuminated a huge hairy beast standing on its hind legs -- dragging a deer off the open tailgate . With luck, the beast will make its way to Madison, and feast on the hippies infesting the Capitol. I’ve spoken before of Nature’s moral degeneracy , the existence of a Bear-Wolf is another example. In an important new essay , noted historian Ian Kershaw says Fascism is on the rise in Europe. 1 Or something of the sort, I read no further than the following paragraph: Though the immigrants were actually important to the continued economic growth of the wealthier nations,...