The headline in today’s Manila Bulletn is that hackers have taken down some government websites to protest the new “cyberlaw”. The cyberlaw is supposed to protect folks against having their email and facebook sites hacked, and to stop hackers from stealing your identity, but it also includes laws against libel: Basically, the group claimed, the [...]

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An Amber Alert has been issued by the state of North Carolina for 12 year old Abigale Faith Lefevers from Carteret County. Authorities are now thinking the girl, who is feared to be with a known sex offender, may be in South Carolina now. The police say that Abigale is with Timothy Howard Newman, who [...]

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First there was an inter Mormon squabble, when Harry Reid claimed that Mitt Romney paid no taxes. So now the taxes are released, and it is found that Romney “only” paid 20 percent of his income to the IRS, and the reason for the low rate was that he gave a huge portion of his [...]

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Another big “story” in the news, saying that a big shot Harvard professor has found proof that Jesus was married. And if you believe that one, here is a copy of an ancient papyrus that I’d like to sell to you: this one is from the ancient book of LOLCATBIBLEexodux 32 What? There was no [...]

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The kerfuffle of China’s land grabs against it’s Asian neighbors is not the only story that the MSM in the US is ignoring. This is the photo being ignored in the US Press: (Pope Benedict XVI waves to the faithful from his Pope-mobile upon his arrival to conduct an open-air mass service at Beirut City [...]

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In today’s news we read about multicity protests that burned flags and had to be broken up by police using water cannons. So where were these demonstration? Cairo? Beruit? Karachi? No, they were in China. The UK Telegraph has a story about these “spontaneous” demonstrations: China seized by second day of violent anti-Japan protests More [...]

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The idea that in the world of Commerce Chief Executives might follow the lead of Harry S Truman and have a sign on their desks saying “The Buck stops here” has had something of a boost in recent times.The departure of top bankers from RBS (Fred Goodwin) and Barclays (Bob Diamond) and top oil men [...]

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Everything in the news seems to be hyperventillation about politics.  What is worse, it seems to be about trivia that have little or nothing to do with the world wide economic problems, or about trying to fix them. (e.g. a friend on facebook dissing Ryan’s marathon speed instead of the details of his budget). So [...]

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There are lots of Book Awards available, and I am a fan of celebrating great books. An award is something that an author can celebrate in. Even I occasionally venture into the award business, I publish a list of my favorite books (that I have actually read) in any given year, There are no tangible [...]

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There is a big kerfuffle about some asinine politician whose naive comments on sexual assault are being spun to prove there is a “war on women”. I made quite a few clinical comments on several web pages,(wonder how many of them were printed) but as a woman doc who has done quite a few “rape” [...]

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This coming Friday, August 17 is little HaLeigh Cummings 9th birthday and there will be a tree planting ceremony held in her honor at Browning Pearce School, where HaLeigh attended school. HaLeigh disappeared from her father’s home on February 10, 2009 in the middle of the night. Misty Croslin, HaLeigh’s father’s then girlfriend, told the [...]

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The name of this missing child, HaLeigh Cummings has become a well known name to all those that follow the cases of the missing children making the news. HaLeigh disappeared three and a half years ago from her home in Putnam County in Florida. Her father’s, then girlfriend, Misty Croslin is supposedly the last person [...]

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The MSL has cameras a plenty, it has a laser that can zap rocks (or aliens?), it has a robotic arm that could possibly throw the first pitch of the first baseball game ever played on a planet other than Earth, and it has 10lbs of plutonium,  but it has no windows! Microsoft may rule [...]

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French political thinker and historian Alexis de Tocqueville once wrote, “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the [...]

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I’ve always been a little nervous of those elevators where you have to manually open the door. They creep me out. But, it was nearly one hundred degrees and Gramercy Typewriter was on four. In the end, I would take the elevator. And, I’d end up with a newly refurbished Olivetti Lettera 22. In this [...]

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Most people are aware that homosexuality as a cultural concept has fallen far from its place in antiquity. Even a century ago, certain communities received homosexuality with more acceptance than modern-day Americans often do. Everyone knows about the homosexual proclivities of ancient Greece, but far fewer consider the leaders that were probably included in this [...]

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Recently, a national mathematics contest with real-world lessons was completed and five brilliant young minds won a $20,000 scholarship for their solution to Moody’s Mega Math Challenge (M3). The contest asked students to provide a mathematical solution to the real-world problem of the High-Speed Intercity Passenger Rail program often debated by members of Congress and [...]

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Jose Baez started his legal career slowly, very slowly. I am too lazy to look up the dates, but Jose did not exactly do well in passing the Bar Exam. Possibly that was due to him drinking Coors Light, but that is pure speculation! One thing is clear, a young attorney needs to get some [...]

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This report from an Iranian blog on Global Voices, says they have such a chicken shortage the price of .chickens have soared. So someone decided to censor films and TV programs that show…chickens (!) Against a backdrop of lengthening food queues, Esmail Ahmadi-Moghaddam, the head of Iran’s law enforcement forces, has warned that films depicting [...]

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The greens in the Philippines are fighting all GM food, which is good in some ways and bad in other ways. I mean, we are in the “organic rice” business, and use locally developed hybrids, so cheap, abundant “Genetically modified” rice imports from China are not in our best interest. But the search for new [...]

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  I believe our veterans deserve to be remembered for their service to our country.  Not just in the here and now, but for generations to come.    Ross “Rosie” Detweiler’s well written autobiography, “The Great Muckrock and Rosie” accomplishes this in a skillful and memorable way.  The story begins when he enters the Air Force [...]

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The most famous death from “friendly fire” was the accidental shooting of Stonewall Jackson by one of his own men in May 1863. His death had serious consequences, since he no longer was there to be Lee’s “eyes and ears” when, a few weeks later, the Confederate patrol looking for shoes stumbled on to the [...]

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Lots of  hyperbole and finger-pointing in the news this week about the Health Care bill, so  let’s look at a few facts. One: While you weren’t looking, medicine has morphed into big business. The days when your friendly family doc could throw away the bill and give you free medicine are long gone. If I [...]

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This is just another good reason that sex offenders should NEVER be allowed free on the streets again. Adam Brown, 49, is listed on the state of Oregon’s sexual registry lists as a predatory sex offender known to target children ages 2 – 8. According to the court records this man was charged with 43 [...]

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A true story of an American tribal member who, after coming to know Jesus Christ, realized just how much liberal policies within tribal and federal government were hurting his extended family. Roland grew up watching members of his family die of alcoholism, child abuse, suicide, and violence on the reservation. Like many others, he blamed all the problems on “white people.”

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. We are gathering in DC in July – Come Add Your Voice to the Call to Protect Children from the Indian Child Welfare Act! Why? To protect the individual rights of Indian children and their families To ensure they maintain the right to a safe, supportive and stable family To request support for appropriate [...]

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As people move more and more to leading a green lifestyle, bamboo has been gaining in popularity. From fences, to clothing, to flooring, it is seen most everywhere. Construction is no different. Bamboo isincreasing at an overwhelming rate in construction usage. Being one of the most eco-friendly materials currently available, it is no wonder that [...]

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Those of us who supported some kind of government health care bill for the 38 million uninsured were duped. Our hope was that a government program could help some who lack health insurance (or the underinsured who would go bankrupt if they had a health emergency). These folks would now have a safety net for [...]

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The police department from Live Oak, Texas (which is in the San Antonio area) has issued an Amber Alert Friday morning for a 6 year old boy, Simon Colby Weyman. The boy was last seen around 8 p.m. Thursday night. On an original report, the police just suspected two people claiming they believed they were [...]

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I think  those who live and work in the US for x number of years without papers should get an amnesty, as was done by Reagan, and I support the targeted amnesty by Clinton for refugees from countries where their lives were in danger if returned, but the blanket amnesty by President Obama for illegal [...]

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