ISLAM - the preferred religion of Books-a-Million?

Apparently superior to all else

Ever since I called Books-a-Million's (BAM) corporate offices years ago about pornography books (they said they were "art books") placed next to children's Valentine's Day books, I have been interested in "book placement" in BAM and other book stores. "In many big-box stores, publishers pay for good placement on front tables, end caps and window space in the same way General Mills and Procter & Gamble buy space for their breakfast cereals and detergents in supermarkets", says literary agent Andy Ross.

The Valentine's Day story goes as follows: I was perusing the children's Valentine's Day books on a table placed low enough so that children could pick up the books and look at them, when I looked at the table next to the children's table. All books on the second table, also low enough so that children could pick them up and thumb through looking at pictures, were pornography books of adults having sex. Being horrified at the possibility of a child looking at porn, I called the sales person over, then asked that the store manager join us. 

Pointing to the children's table next to the porn table I asked whose idea it was to place the two tables together. Was BAM promoting pornography to children? The answer was that they were adult Valentine's Day "art" books and "book placement comes from corporate" so there was nothing they could do.

Have you sent the president a valentine?

Happy Valentine's Day! I'm sure most readers have heard about the red envelope project. Send an empty red envelope to the president with a note on the outside that the envelope is empty as a symbol of one dead baby killed by abortion.

Send your valentine to President Barack Obama, The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Washington, D.C. 20500.

Think of the meanings that can be attached to the word "empty": empty wombs, empty cribs, empty arms, empty classrooms, empty hearts.... I'm sure you can think of others. This project can go on all year as far as I'm concerned. Send envelopes to Nancy Pelosi and other members of Congress. Let the red envelopes become a source of pricking consciences. Let the red symbolize the blood of the innocent and the red rose that symbolizes the pro-life movement. Let the mail handlers' hearts be touched as they see these reminders that there are still many people in America who speak out for the unborn.

Next time I'm at the store I'm buying a pack of red envelopes and I'm sending them out on a regular basis. Not only will a red envelope remind the person who receives it that the babies are not forgotten, but it will remind me as well to pray for those whose empty hearts and empty heads let them support the killing of the babies. It will remind me to pray for the mothers who, if not now, will one day hug blankets or stuffed animals, or their pets as they weep for the little ones they will never hold and rock. And I'll pray for the poor little unbaptized babies, begging the Blessed Mother to present them to her Son as little lambs made worthy by sharing in the same bloody death as the Holy Innocents.

Happy Valentine's Day to the faithful, suffering pro-life movement, to the repentant mothers and fathers, and to all who love the unwanted and rejected. Our work is never in vain.