America at its Best
According to a Pew Research Center poll, 18 percent of Americans think their president, Barack Obama, is a Muslim. This figure is significantly up from 11 percent last year. The figure is higher among opponents such as conservative Republicans (34 percent). But even among his supporters, belief that he is a Christian is falling, suggesting a widespread misperception more complex than can be put down to vitriol or antipathy.
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In a similar vein, here’s a monkey on a goat
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In other goat-related news, an aggressive billy goat has been squatting in a third-floor flat in Offenburg, Baden-Württemberg. Police turned up at the flat after builders had complained after being chased out by the house-proud ruminant to find the occupant in question eating some curtains.
Said a police spokesman: “We have no idea how that goat got up onto the third floor and entered the apartment. We also don’t know who owns it – we have had no reports of a missing goat.”
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