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Peter Singer on keeping New Year resolutions

Did you make any New Year’s resolutions? Perhaps you resolved to get fit, to lose weight, to save more money, or to drink less alcohol. Or your resolution may have been more altruistic: to help those in need, or to reduce your carbon footprint. But are you keeping your resolution? Continues here...

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Anonymous said…
Richard Bartholomew, why have you not written the fourth segment today on CNN Connect the world, Have you heard the governor of Akwa Ibom State speak on this issue of child witch you and your humanist group have been accusing an innocent woman of God Helen Ukpabio and her church. Shame to all the atheists. All the money you have been making by accusing Helen ukpabio you will vomit now. Why not look for a job instead of getting involved in all this fraud. I saw the face of Mag Gavan a British fraudulent woman, I read failure on her face, she has failed. The Governor has disgraced you and your group. I am surprised you have not written on this topic you have been following segment by segment for days now, the fourth segment is missing in your blog. You can see how fraudulent you are by not letting the world know the truth. You lied to the whole world that the Governor of Akwa Ibom state is against Helen Ukpabio and her church. now the governor has been on air (CNN) since yesterday and you are pretending not to see it, Bartholomew shame on you, you said there is no God in heaven, now we will know if God exist or not. You and your group have been disgraced and all your scam has been exposed, I told you before and I am saying it again that all of you, Mag Gavan, Sam Ikpe Itaumah, Gary Foxcroft, Ed Brayton, Jeremy Rodell, Marie Therese o’ Loughlin, Kent Solomon, Stephen Law, Kelly Stowe, Richard’s concubine Amanda Jayne Archer, Mark oppenheimer of Yale University and his blackmailer wife Rachel, Leo Igwe (the murderer), and your news correspondent Christian Purefoy will soon face the law. Once again Richard, I challenge you in the name of our Lord Jesus to comment on Becky Anderson’s report on child witch Akwa Ibom state Nigeria (connect the world).
August 31, 2010 at 7:51 PM
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