A small item in the Washington Post tells us:
The Obama administration will ask Congress to improve childhood nutrition by ridding school vending machines of sugary snacks and drinks and giving school lunch and breakfast to more kids.
Where to begin?
Once, in the past, children actually packed a lunch box to eat lunch at school.
In […]

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Peer Abuse at work continues to be an underappreciated issue in our nation as we continue to enable this problem in our companies and organizations. However, things “down under” seem to be taking a more serious look at this problem.
A recent court decision in Hawthorn, Australia ordered a company, Café Vamp, to pay $335,000 in […]

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Jersey Shore? Fuhgeddaboudit. Jersey City is the gem of reality TV. Shore is MTV. Jersey City is FBI. Like, how real is that? Killer videos of pols talking trash and passing cash have been unspooling in federal court in Newark at the trial of Jersey City Deputy Mayor Leona Beldini. Beldini was busted last Summer in an […]

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There are toxic people in every environment – toxic family, toxic friends, toxic lovers and toxic coworkers.  If you don’t recognize and respond effectively to toxic, bullying coworkers they can make your life miserable, harass you, turn the rest of your team against you, scapegoat you and even get you fired.
For example, Jane is known […]

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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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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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My last post focused on children, teenagers and adults facing moments of choice when they’re targets of or bystanders-witnesses to harassment, bullying and abuse.  People who repeatedly turn away from that call to step up usually develop terrible long-term consequences including increased stress, insecurity, discouragement and depression; increased blame, shame, guilt and negative self-talk; 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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Unless you’ve been living in a closet for 2 week, or are a die-hard Obama supporter trying to avoid the news, Scott Brown, the Republican, won the special election to fill the Senate seat of the late Ted Kennedy.
Yes, that Ted Kennedy.
Was this simply a local election, judged solely on local issues?  I don’t think […]

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There are moments of choice in all our lives when we are called upon to stand up for our best dreams and aspirations.  Sometimes we recognize and seize these opportunities, sometimes we ignore these moments and sometimes we don’t ever hear their call to our spirits.  Each of these moments and our responses create long-lasting […]

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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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Another week and another blog. This time I am focusing upon the constant crank in the workplace. You know, the one that complains about everyone and everything? Nobody can do anything better than her? She zeroes in on every little move made by someone in the office? This is not just having a bad day […]

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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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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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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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This world is one that grows more and more vicious everyday. The term dog eat dog is probably considered a form of good behavior now. Everyday we watch and listen to someone somewhere sabotage someone else. For the most part, we walk on by and ignore it or we participate and not in the right […]

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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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Imagine that you have a new boyfriend who seems wonderful and you’re looking forward to a romantic Valentine’s Day.  But in your past relationships you were harassed, bullied, controlled and abused.  You finally realize you have a tendency to pick the wrong guys.  What should you look for with this new one and what should […]

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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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Pacifism
–noun
1. Opposition to war or violence of any kind.
2. Refusal to engage in military activity because of one’s principles or beliefs.
3. The principle or policy that all differences among nations should be adjusted without recourse to war.
In my post yesterday I mentioned that a so-called conservative friend on my facebook page had posted a video […]

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In my daily attempt to shed light on the liberal’s statist agenda that seeks to convert our fine republic into a socialist doormat for the world, I come across a great many characters with quite a few interesting viewpoints.
Throughout 2009, as President Obama and the liberal congress made it increasingly obvious that the oath they […]

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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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