Services in many nations will be held to mark the first major disability event in the calendar - Autism Sunday on 14th February. Autism campaigners have used the occasion to lobby and campaign on the issues concerned with autism and Asperger’s Syndrome around the world. They are also set to wear autism awareness ribbons on […]

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The story carries the headline: France: Catholic Church Rejects Ban on Full-Face Veils
Except the “Catholic Church” did no such thing. The Bishop in charge of “interreligious dialogue” in France made a statement, but his opinion is not the opinion of the Catholic church.
“If we want Christian minorities in Muslim majority countries to enjoy […]

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BY ALFRED AND JOHN DONOVAN
Another major humiliation and security breach for Shell arising from our blog site royaldutchshellplc.com.   First we beat Shell to the top level domain name for Royal Dutch Shell Plc.  As a result, with Shell’s written approval, we process job applications and business proposals meant for Shell, dealing with them as […]

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When I came to the Philippines, I ripped my CD collection into MP3’s and brought most of my collection here on mp3 CD’s or on my hard drive. I had a fairly nice collection of “elevator music” (to use my son’s description), mainly because I worked in rural areas where it was easier to listen […]

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Even if Rifqa never goes back to live with her parents, she, as a Christian, needs to honor them. She needs to treat them with love and respect. That’s just a fact.

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President Obama, who has overlooked various pork barrel spending projects placed into unrelated bills by the Congress, is reported to have decided to freeze the budget to NASA to prove he can cut the Federal Budget.
To put it bluntly, this means there is no money for the proposed Moon landing under his watch.
“This represents a […]

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Seeing Tony Blair yesterday at the Iraq war enquiry made me realise just how good a politician he was – surely the best communicator of modern times and intellectually robust as well. But, and it’s a massive but, his driving force was (and is) utterly wrong. It wasn’t socialism, or Europeanism, or Anglo-Americanism or any […]

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Last week, we were stopped at a checkpoint while driving to the provincial capital for a doctor’s appointment.
Nothing new about that: We had a lot of checkpoints awhile back, when there was a move to find the last few NPA members who hadn’t come in from the cold and become normal “militant” activists.
But this checkpoint […]

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Back in the 1970’s, Jimmy Carter was unlucky. He seemed to have a tin ear and do nothing right, and so Teddy Kennedy decided to rescue the party and run against him. Americans who saw the huge increase in gasoline prices, a sour economy, inflation that ate their savings, and mortgage rates of 12 percent, […]

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You do not represent me, a low income widow with a racially diverse family. You do not represent my daughters, two of whom have had children out of wedlock while still in their teens. We love our babies and would never hurt them. Please don’t pretend to speak for all women.

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One of the neglected areas of my medical education was “ethnic” and “racial” aspects of medicine.
One example of this is lactose intolerance.Only IndoEuropeans (and one small tribe in Uganda) are able to digest milk without problems.In the modern world, this means a lot of folks diagnosed with “irritable bowel” syndrome were actually lactose intolerant; and […]

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Shame the sponsors. That sums up the remedy advised by Vancouver Olympics Organizing Committee member and Vancouver City Manager Penny Ballem on Wednesday Jan. 13, after she was briefed at City Hall on evidence of persecution of bloggers and other computer/internet users by the City of Vancouver.  Ballem (in photo above […]

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…He responds, not by changing his direction, apologizing, or bringing in new, non-communist people to take crucial lead positions in the administration; he brings in his old campaign manager, David Plouffe.

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What does one do with a country like Haiti, where years of occupation, corruption, and many different types of aid from outside hasn’t worked?
Lots of “it’s your fault” type stuff all over the internet: a lot of it uses the left wing’s meme of “Blame America” (and the right shouts back “Blame France”). Not mentioned, […]

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The right wing blogosphere is in ecstasy about a Republican upset for the Senate seat in Massachusetts.
But the real news is HOW Scott Brown won the Senate seat in “Blue state” Massachusetts. How? Apparantly, he won most of the Independent vote along with the Republican vote. One suspects he also might have garnered some of […]

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…one Earthquake all too physically destructive, the other a virtual earthquake - shaking our political fabric to its very core, and with it, destruction of the hopes and dreams of the far left.

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One of the headlines on Drudge reads:
CNN’s Gupta steps in for fleeing doctors…
The actual headline at CNN says: Security concerns cause doctors to leave hospital, quake victims, but the URL says “haiti.abandoned.patients”.
From the story
Earthquake victims, writhing in pain and grasping at life, watched doctors and nurses walk away from a field […]

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Spoiler Alert: It’s the Bible!

If you didn’t guess that from the previews already, it’s not much of a spoiler.   Denzel Washington is Eli, a traveler in post-apocalyptic North America.  From the first scene the spectacular action shots are reminiscent of some Zack Snyder directed graphic novel come to film.  But instead of this film doesn’t […]

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Autism Campaigners around the world are to wear autism awareness ribbons to mark the first major disability event for 2010 - Autism Sunday, scheduled to be observed across many nations on Sunday 14th February. Autism Sunday is also known as the International Day of Prayer for Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome, remembering 60 million people with […]

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There are a lot of Democrats like myself who will wonder why the Democratic party is using what they know is an obscene word, instead of bringing up the very real issues of the election.If you who aren’t familiar with the gay community, the word “teabagging” is a euphemism for a practice that normal Grandmoms […]

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PHOENIX –David Keller–Arizona representative John Shadegg (R) plans to retire after eight terms in the congress, Shadegg wanted to retire after his seventh term, but House Republicans convinced him to stay for one more term. Some pundits speculated Shadegg would run for the Senate in 2010 had John McCain been elected president. 
In a statement, Shadegg […]

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After taking on issues not quite relevant to today’s political culture, and remaking an iconic film that had already been twice remade, Peter Jackson returns to what made him an award winning director: making movies out of popular books.  And he finally gets it done it in under three hours.
“The Lovely Bones” tells its story […]

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The Massachusetts Senate race is getting the headlines on Drudge. Hmm…makes me wonder what’s going on, when a state most famous for it’s welfare and compassion might vote for a Republican. Yes, I’m old enough to remember Romney and Senator Brooke, but they are the exception to the rule.
The funniest line in the race this […]

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You might have read the headlines that Cellphone use might prevent Alzheimer’s disease. Well, don’t get too excited yet.
Alzheimer’s disease is not caused by a loss of brain cells as much as it is caused by the build-up of amyloid (protein) and plaques, which then destroy the brain cells.
So, a scientist took some mice who […]

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The advertising campaigns on our local cable TV is “Malaysia, truly Asia”, suggesting that you can visit there and see all of Asia in a microcosm: The beaches of SEAsia, the foods of India, and the bargains of China, all in one.
Well, last week’s attacks on seven churches just lost them the visits of a […]

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Blogging from PHOENIX –David Keller– Authorities report that 23 year old Elizabeth Johnson, The Tempe Arizona mother who created a National media firestorm when she claimed in a text message to having killed her 8 month old baby was returned to Phoenix early Sunday.
Johnson has been held in a Miami jail since December 30, She later […]

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A headline about President Obama’s Speech on national security from the Philippine Inquirer notes:
Obama speech won’t bump ‘Lost’ premiere–White House 
Well, after a kerfuffle about the President “bumping” Charlie Brown’s Christmas Special, it’s nice to see that President Obama has his priorities intact. (I should note that Pope John Paul II rescheduled his installation […]

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PHOENIX —A Federal grand jury has been called to hear evidence and decide the truth concerning years of allegations that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his deputies routinely abuse authority and violate the basic civil rights of those who voice criticism. Democrats, republicans, blacks, Latino’s , business owners, valley mayors, judges, public officials, literally […]

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Autism Sunday was mentioned on primetime television news in Massachusetts when campaigning Mom Janice Cox was recently interviewed by 22 News.
Autism Sunday is on 14th February 2010 and churches around the world are marking what has become a key autism date in the year. Janice Cox told the media that she wanted to focus on […]

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Way back in 2001, letters containing powdered anthrax were sent to a bunch of news reporters and Congressmen, and because the powder was so fine several innocent people, mainly those who worked in the Post Office, died from the infection.
Despite initial worries that it was terrorism, later reports assured the American people that it probably […]

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