In the aftermath of the Lori Drew trial, I have been reading bits and pieces online as time has permitted. This trial made me think of a few things over the past several days about internet safety, the realities of social sites and other odds and ends pertaining to the internet. I stumbled across this […]

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Blogger news hosted another in their continuing series of radio shows, a call in show where our listeners had the opportunity to air their concerns and comments. It was a lively discussion, and there was lots to talk about.
Casey remains locked up, which likely is the best place for her, but that does not mean […]

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There has been a low-grade terrorist war in the US that gets little attention, and the shadowy group has attacked again. Several cars have been firebombed, and an animal rights group is behind the attacks.
Don’t expect much publicity about the attacks, because the attackers are so called animal rights protesters, a group beloved of the […]

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Caffeine, the world’s most widely used psychoactive substance, attracts a lot of research. PubMed contains 23,000+ citations for caffeine, for instance.
Caffeine also attracts controversy.
Some scientists argue that caffeine is a benign and useful drug whose side effects are only of concern in regard to a small number of “sensitives”, including those with pre-existing anxiety or […]

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One of the reasons behind legalizing abortion was the anguish of parents having disabled children.
Ironically, the ability to prevent many cases of retardation via vaccines (e.g. against Rubella, a common cause of profound retardation in the past), treatment (congenital syphillis), or surgery (meningomyelocoel and hydrocephalus) has improved over the last 40 years.
Other diseases that in […]

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More pages of documents on the missing child, Caylee Anthony have been released to the public. Caylee’s mother Casey Anthony is in jail held on charges of first degree murder in the Orange County Jail.
These documents reveal that there were searches made on March 17 on Casey’s computer on “how to make chloroform,” “neck breaking” […]

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Most of the discussion of racism in the US are “ain’t it awful” laments that ignore the dirty little secret of America: That people face less racism in the US than in the rest of the world, and that racism is a slowly disappearing in the United States.
Does racism exist? Yes. But next to the […]

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Several of you sent me this from Yahoo.com’s headlines page — Economy Hitting Women Hardest, Say Experts (11/21/08). It’s a variation on the “Nuclear Holocaust Kills Billions–Women Hit Hardest” theme. If the Ms. Foundation for Women says women suffer the worst, it must be true.
I’m not an expert on poverty statistics, but I do have […]

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I got an email from my best friend on Saturday. It was a Yahoo story about a young man who committed suicide via a webcam in front of a live, virtual audience. This took place on the site Justin.tv .The way I understand it, this young man was threatening to take his own life and […]

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As many of you know, I have been following the Megan Meier case. This is the case where Megan committed bullycide after a 16 year old boy she met on the social site My Space, , Josh Evans, who she was infatuated with suddenly turned on her stating “the world would be a better place […]

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This case seems to keep getting deeper and deeper involving more and more people as it goes along. Now not only does it involve a missing two year old child but now the Anthony’s are banning TV stations from getting interviews with them. Well Kid Finder’s is doing it but on behalf of the Anthony’s. […]

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One of our relatives here in the Philippines recently developed a cataract.
Cataracts are common here, probably from exposure to UV light while working outside. So we took her to the local Ophthalmologist, a recent graduate and the daughter of a friend.
We found she could have the cataract removed and a new lens placed into her […]

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Political Correctness Claims Another Victim:
Kindergarten Thanksgiving Celebration Had Been Held for 40 Years

“Racist” children celebrate Thanksgiving by “dehumanizing” American Indians
In yet another case of political correctness run amok, a forty-year history of kindergarteners dressed as pilgrims and native Americans celebrating Thanksgiving at school has been quashed in Claremont, California, due to four people who complained […]

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Caylee Anthony has been missing now 25 long weeks and thousands of people from across the world have opened their hearts for this child since she disappeared. Well ok not since she disappeared but rather since she was reported missing. She went missing in mid June but her mother Casey Anthony didn’t think it was […]

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Is Barack Obama still too ‘green’
to comprehend the American Dream?
In the concluding portion of his regular Saturday address to the ‘YouTubers’, President-elect Obama referred to the “survival of the American Dream”. Here is what he said:
“The survival of the American Dream for over two centuries is not only a testament to its enduring power, […]

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Caylee Marie Anthony disappeared in mid June and no one seems to be able to find her. The FBI and the Orange County Sheriff’s office are convinced that the two year old child is dead yet her grandparents, George and Cindy Anthony keep holding out hope to find little Caylee alive.
There has been a lot […]

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The news story Why Japan’s isolated mothers are killing their children (The Age [Australia], 11/8/08) has so many outrageously revealing quotes about the pro-mother/anti-father bias that it’s hard to know where to begin.
Quote #1–”[Y]oung mothers feel acutely isolated from their community and receive no support from uninvolved or abusive husbands…In a moment of quiet desperation, […]

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I think the chances of anyone in America to not have heard about this case would be very rare. America has fallen in love with this 2 year old child, Caylee Anthony, that disappeared in mid June but the baby’s mother, Casey Anthony didn’t bother to report her missing for 31 days and even then […]

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According to California Bounty Hunter, Leonard Padilla it seems that the Brat of The Year, Casey Anthony wasn’t always completely quiet. He is claiming that she made self-incriminating statements to one of his associates while she was at home under house arrest about her missing daughter. Caylee Anthony has been missing since mid June and […]

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You might not know it from the headlines, but the war in Iraq is essentially won, and the good guys won.
Oh yes, you will still see reports of bombings, but then 50 years after Magsaysay here in the Philippines essentially ended the Huk uprising, we still get kidnappings, murders and killings here by the NPA, […]

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Today apparently WFTV-Channel 9 out of Orlando’s Kathi Belich reported that Jose Baez, Casey Anthony’s attorney is on the prosecutions witness list.
WFTV’s legal analyst, William Sheaffer said that any conversations Jose Baez had with Casey or any member of her family would not be considered privileged information if there was a third party present that […]

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The Killer Eggplants are coming…they should arrive in 2009.
I’m joking, of course.
But Science Daily News reports that scientists have developed a newer genetically modified eggplant, which is now in the testing phase and so far it has tested safe and nutritious.
If it passes the test, the new variety would allow farmers to grown eggplant without […]

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This past weekend we were all told from this so called new spokesperson for George and Cindy Anthony, Michelle Bart, that the Anthony’s would be holding a press conference and show the public exactly why they think Caylee Marie Anthony is still alive. They claim there has been sightings of little Caylee at the Orlando […]

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There’s a religious war, of sorts, going on in the Episcopal church and, here in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex, it has created a parting of the ways between the Fort Worth Diocese and the Dallas Diocese.
The first shot in this war came back in 1976 when the Episcopal Church officially allowed women in the ministry. […]

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The news business is usually a pretty ugly one. As the old saying goes, good news doesn’t sell newspapers. Something horrible happens and we get flooded with two or three days of coverage, then nothing! The story loses it’s top billing and everyone moves on to the next disaster, natural or man made.
Some stories though […]

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Ten atheism-promoting billboards will go up in Denver over the holidays and one in Colorado Springs; the message is simple: “Don’t believe in God? You are not alone” in white letters over background that shows a mostly-cloudy blue sky. These billboards are, reportedly being paid for by a Colorado atheist group but, since the […]

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Well I guess they needed someone to talk for Cindy and George Anthony because they have now hired a new spokesperson for them, Michelle Bart. She has organized a chance for the public to meet and greet the Anthony’s. WOW! I guess this would be your chance to meet the new wanna-be celebrities.
“I believe it’s […]

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The sad case surrounding two year old Caylee Anthony is gut wrenching to say the least. A poor defenseless toddler goes missing, yet momma bear Casey Anthony takes 30 days to actually report this minor issue to the authorities. As a father of two kids, I can assure you that when they were toddlers we […]

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Talk shows are continually pounding on Barack Obama’s lack of judgement because of his previous associations with Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright and a host of others who have terroristic or sketchy backgrounds. Ayers was brought on Good Morning America this past week and questioned about his associations with Obama and about his feelings toward the […]

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The repeal of Section 59 from the Crimes Act in New Zealand has only 20% of New Zealanders opposing it. The often dubbed “anti-smacking law” removed the right for adults to use “reasonable force” to discipline their children.
43% of those surveyed by UMR on behalf of the Office of the Children’s Commissioner responded positively to […]

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