Beyonce in Egypt

Not everyone is exactly enthusiastic to see Beyonce perform in her yearlong world tour, CNN reports. Islamist Egyptian Member of Parliament Hamdi Hassan claims the government would be breaking Sharia law in letting the singer perform having been photographed naked before. He said it would be encouraging sin.

I don't know if I'd take it quite that far, but I could see how the singer's risque attire could strike a cord with the conservative nation. But fully clothed or not, she's still a $400 dollar ticket!

Catholic church targets Anglican converts

The Vatican released its plan to use cannon law to create a separate sector of the church targeting Anglican converts. Allowing Anglican converts to keep some of their traditions, the law was directed toward those who fell on a more traditional side of Anglican worship. It doesn't sound like the Catholic church is doing this to inspire a oneness in faith at all. It simply seems conjured up to capitalize off the split within the Anglican church and is almost too accommodating for my taste. This makes me wonder just how far the Catholic church is willing to retreat from its own doctrines to get more converts.
Newsy.com

Five Generations

Is this simply newsworthy because she is African American? Let's be honest the same connection to slavery's not so distant past could have been drawn with any past US first ladies- be it as a descendant of slave owners or one of slaves. The truth is that the history of slavery is not as black and white as portrayed.

Newsy.com covers the many perspectives.
http://www.newsy.com/videos/michelle_obama_s_slave_roots

This is a little different from my normal post because it is not an international story but involves the adoption and later return of a South American child by a Caucasian American woman. Anita Tedaldi told MSNBC that she could not bond with the child.

“I think it was both ways… that the child, D, wasn’t connecting with us," she said to MSNBC.

"And at the same time, while I was seeking help with a therapist, a social worker, while I was trying to establish a connection, and did some attachment therapy, I also realized that, on my part, there was a difference. I also had a hard time bonding with him.”

Tedaldi has five biological children of her own, none of which she seemed to have a hard time bonding with. While I can understand adoption being a completely different scenario, I am just not understanding how one can comprehend returning a child like a pair of jeans with a loose thread. Did all of the reasons she came up with for why she wanted to adopt suddenly go out the window?

My guess is that that probably happened sometime around the time she saw the skin-tone of the baby.

http://www.newsy.com/videos/adopt_and_return

Rio wins bid for 2016 Olympic Games

The 2016 Olympics will be held in Rio de Janeiro, the first South American city to be offered this honor. As a Chicagoan, I was a little hurt that despite President Obama's best efforts, Chicago was eliminated in the first round. In the words of my mother "we loss, we loss, we ate tomato sauce!" The victory party in the city's downtown area was delayed indefinitely.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/03/sports/03olympics.html?hp