Blog Posts on everyday heroes

Notes from a sad day by Finest Kind Clinic and Fishmarket on Mar 6, 2012Parents Joe and Stephanie Decker are shown here with their children Dominic and Reese. When a tornado slammed into their home, Stephanie Decker shielded her children with her own body and lost her legs. (photo:Decker Family/Handout)Now, compare and c...

Good news Story of the day by Finest Kind Clinic and Fishmarket on Mar 5, 2012Church gave hurricane aid in '05, gets tornado aidFour pickup-and-trailer loads of goods brought over the weekend to tornado-stricken Harrisburg, Ill., are just a partial return for help after Hurricane Rita in 2005, say residents of Lake Arthur, a t...

More Heartwarming stories by Finest Kind Clinic and Fishmarket on Feb 10, 2012On PJMediablog, a young mother finds out her child has Down's syndrome shortly after her husband deploys to Afghanistan.Later that day, I read Emily Perl Kingsley’s essay “Welcome To Holland“ about learning you will be a parent of a special nee...

Hiroshima no kane by Finest Kind Clinic and Fishmarket on Feb 10, 2012This pain makes even the most perfectly clear blue skies sorrowful. Life is like a wave that comes over you, you flowers of the field, living in vain. Consolation, encouragement, for Nagasaki. Ah, Nagasaki's bells are ringing. Confess the sins o...

Bella's dad by Finest Kind Clinic and Fishmarket on Feb 8, 2012Heh. Santorum won in Minnesota and Missouri even though he had to take off to visit his sick handicapped daughter Bella.It's hard to follow American politics from ten thousand miles away, but I am aware of Rick Santorum's family story, including the...

Last WWI veteran dies by Finest Kind Clinic and Fishmarket on Feb 7, 2012From the BBC: Born in London before moving to Norfolk, Mrs Green was 17 years old when she joined the Women's Royal Air Force (WRAF) on 13 September 1918 - two months before the armistice. Mrs Green worked as a waitress on RAF ba...

Factoid of the day by Finest Kind Clinic and Fishmarket on Feb 2, 2012CigaretteSmoking blog reports of a movie being made about the Irish potato famine, and the aid sent to help the starving Irish...by the Ottoman empire.more HERE.Ireland was ridden with famine and disease between 1845 and 1849. Also known as the Great...

silence by Finest Kind Clinic and Fishmarket on Jan 21, 2012Cuban Bloggers report on the death of a hungerstriker there:Pedazos de la Isla explained why Wilman Villar Mendoza must not be forgotten: I have heard various people say that a hunger strike is a form of suicide, but I do not believe that. The on...

The good (and bad) stories of the day by Finest Kind Clinic and Fishmarket on Jan 17, 2012Muslim blogger risks her life by publicizing attacks on Christian churches in Karachi.Sana Saleem... a blogger for the Pakistani and international newspapers such as the "Guardian", said that "it will happen again, because this is not just bigotry, b...

Stuff below the fold by Finest Kind Clinic and Fishmarket on Dec 19, 2011The God Particle is cornered but elusive. Background here.==========================Mass Murderer Kim is dead....but few obits go into details.and filling in the details by GetReligion....“Mercurial and enigmatic longtime leader,” eh? Is that how...