Wednesday, September 30, 2015

news bits late September 2015

The Pope in Havana met with Fidel Castro a couple weeks ago.
In Pope Francis's trip to the US & Cuba he spoke at the UN General Assembly,
and He spoke to the US Congress:
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 The US Congress' Speaker of the House of Representatives, Speaker John Boehner said he will retire next month. This surprise happened the day after Pope Francis spoke at Congress. The first time that a Pope has ever spoke there. There are ramifications and explicit reasons for his odd retirement. It will have unknowable effects.
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 The wars in the Fertile Crescent continue.

Syrian migrants most abundantly affect surrounding countries.

There is now Literal maps of literal fiction.

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Mars has been found to have evidence of water.
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The lunar eclipse coincided with the super moon on a full moon this year. It looked a pale orange color here.

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