Okay, parents. Your 13 year old makes a decision that he wants to do something that has a 2 percent chance to be fatal.
Do you 1) Forbid him to do it. 2) Try to talk him out of this but if he refuses to listen to your concerns, allow him to do it anyway since […]

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For Professor Daniel Davis and his friend Ben Greene this late September morning is the time for good natured give and take and a run along some abandoned railroad tracks in the heart of the North Florida Wildlife Preserve. The running for Daniel is not just exercise but as a means of escape from nightmares […]

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GMA and ESPN are now promoting hate speech against Catholics under the guise of accusing Filipine boxer Pacquiao of homophobia.
From “An Open Letter to Manny Pacquiao From a Gay Filipina American,”
…your parents give you Catholicism as a kind of heavy gift. A centuries-old guide for every life transition a human can go through. Birth, death, […]

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I am not an avid astronomer, but I do like to watch strange phenomena. A solar eclipse is one that should not be missed. Sundays event alas was outside of my viewing area. But I knew that somewhere in the wild world of the internet there would be a live feed. 
As I had a […]

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Smith-Mundt Act Modifications Lack Protections Against Abuse
by Ted Lipien
While the independent, nonpartisan Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting supports some changes in the Smith-Mundt Act, we and many other media freedom advocates share grave concerns that officials of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) will use the new legislation to abandon some foreign audiences under the […]

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I am a big fan of cheese. It comes in many subtle and not so subtle guises. Pretty much I like it all, they all have a place and a purpose. Although you would have to ‘waterboard me’ to buy Velveeta (not quite cheese) of my own volition, my wife makes a wonderful creamy casserole […]

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Should folks name a high school after a man who supported Eugenics?
No, say the Canadian Metis blogger, ex-politician, and all around troublemaker Mrs. Gay Caswell on her blog.
So who is she complaining about now? A Canadian bigshot who implemented socialized medicine in that country. Complains Mrs C:
He followed the Regina Manifesto, a doctrinaire communist […]

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Released in 1971 Aqualung proved to be turning point for the band Jethro Tull. It took them relative obscurity to a powerhouse of the popular music world. It is estimated that over the years some 7 million copies of the album have been sold.
The band has been headed by front man Ian Anderson since its […]

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As we rapidly approach vacation season, I would like to offer a little tourist information about my hometown of Austin and the nearby Texas Hill Country. This candid insider’s viewpoint includes a few places and activities of interest, including a few details traditional sources may accidentally on purpose neglect to mention. You can find the […]

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The Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB www.cusib.org) and the independent BBG Watch (www.bbgwatch.com) website reported that blind Chinese legal activist and dissident Chen Guangcheng, who arrived today in the United States, had been secretly listening to Voice of America Mandarin shortwave radio broadcasts while he was in prison in China. Chen Guangcheng revealed this […]

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No, the Catholics here in the Philippines are not boycotting Lady Gaga: these are Protestant protests.
Old leftie Bishop Cruz is blasting about corruption, the RH Bill and the plans of the elites to legalize divorce on his website, but not Gaga.
The Catholic bishop’s website is worried about the ecology and corruption, but not Lady Gaga.
Even […]

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I was less than happy with my last excursion into great British cuisine. Steak and Kidney pie sounded so good, but alas a major component was unavailable, the Kidney. If you missed this great adventure, you can read about here.
I had been sulking about it for days. As luck would have it my wife made […]

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This week’s Barling & Barrett show will place the conduct of police departments under another microscope starting with the beating of Kelly Thomas that led to two officers being indicted by a Grand Jury for second degree murder an manslaughter and leading up to the latest in bizarre defenses offered by a Police Detective who […]

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I rather like the world of music, you just never know what awaits you around the next corner. I have little interest in the Billboard Charts, preferring instead to seek out the new and unusual. Actually often I do not doing the seeking, it somehow finds its way to my door.
From a Finnish Punk Folk […]

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What hath Drudge wrought?
Or maybe I should say Breitbart:

Heh…Wonder why the press didn’t find this five years ago.
America’s watchdog seems to be at sleep at the wheel, and the fact that a two bit blogger found this public photo in at least two places suggests a major problem with mainstream American news reporting.
Carelessness or bias? […]

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On Wednesday, May 16th, 2012, a jury returned a guilty verdict for the charges on Steven Powell which were 14 counts of voyeurism. Powell’s son Josh Powell was the husband of the missing Utah woman, Susan Powell. The charges against Steven stemmed from an investigation in Susan’s disappearance, when a search warrant was issued to […]

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 Part I of this article is here: No Wizard of Oz For Indian Economy. Here is the concluding part.
Irrespective of uncertainties of Greece or Euro-zone, both would recover. However without capacity creation, India seems to be going nowhere. And that job of creating the huge shortfall of capacity increasingly gets difficult. Economic turmoils elsewhere, as […]

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There was (or is?) one Dr. Manmohan Singh, an economist Prime Minister in India. In his cabinet, and also among his policy-advisors, he had many other noted economists, many educated from Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge et al.
Unfortunately, what his cabinet did not have is one Dorothy.
And that happened to be the root of all economic […]

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Heh. The Honorable Senator Emmanuel D, Pacquiao, Aka the world champion boxer Manny Pacquiao, aka Pacman, who recently found religion, is now under attack.
Why? Well, it s seems that he has made a remark against gay marriage, and his website has some Biblical phrases that imply promiscuous gay sex is wrong.
Since Pacman has been known […]

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Like The “Progressives” of the early 20th century, President Obama and many of his fellow Leftists these days are quite fond of making the claim that they are simply motivated by “what works” and are not driven by ideology the way conservatives are. The philosophical emptiness of such claims is thoroughly amusing […]

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Even in these extraordinary economic, social and political times around the world the core essence of an advanced Nation’s status is rarely endangered. This is not, however, the case with the United Kingdom. More by accident than design the Union is threatened for the first time in generations at the same time that our membership […]

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As spring is in full swing, so are the advertisements for upcoming concerts. I, for one, look forward to getting on my Harley, snagging easy parking, and taking in a few shows this year. And, as with all seasonal activities and events, scammers are gearing up to take advantage of another opportunity to prey upon […]

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EFTPOS skimming has become increasingly prevalent over the past few years. EFTPOS skimming—which stands for “electronic funds transfers at the point of sale”—involves either replacing the self-swipe point of sale terminals at cash registers with devices that record credit and debit card data, or remotely hacking a retailer’s POS server.
In one such case, Romanian hackers […]

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Like the anthology Killer Fiction: 11 Short Stories of  Killers, Fixers, and P.I.’s  the anthology does not waste time with an introduction of some type.  While the Killer Fiction anthology had a decidedly noir bent in style, A Woman’s Touch- 11 Short Stories of Murder and Misdemeanors anthology is much more on the cozy side […]

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If only he had the simple ideals of Virtue, Charity, Freedom, Liberty, and Justice, even as an imposter, Obama might have been a good leader. Surely we have been led in the past by those without some of these ideals. With his wordsmithing and charisma Barack could have been a uniter of people as he […]

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In their new book, Getting Jefferson Right: Fact Checking Claims about Our Third President, Christian college professors Warren Throckmorton and Michael Coulter challenge claims about Thomas Jefferson made in the New York Times best selling book, The Jefferson Lies by David Barton.
In The Jefferson Lies and his talks about the book, Barton claims that Thomas Jefferson

included all the words of […]

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The local news has been following Chinese threats against the Philippines, and China is getting more threatening.
For years, China has claimed to own the Spratlys Island area, which is claimed by the Philippines, Brunai, Taiwan and Viet Nam.
These countries have insisted on international arbitration for the claim, something that China is not very happy about, […]

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The story keeps unfolding as the days go by about the kidnapping of the mother and her three daughters, who was reported missing on April 27, 2012.  Now according to Adam Mayes’s mother-in-law, Josie Tate, he seemed to believe that the two younger girls, Alexandria and Kyliyah Bain were his own daughters and it had […]

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This latest book featuring recovering alcoholic Bruce Kohler and his friends Jimmy and Barbara, is another good one. While it could be read as a stand-alone this novel is later in time after Death Will Get You Sober and Death Will Help You Leave Him and thus should be read after those two good books.
 
This […]

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Unless you have a cynical mind, (or have been trained to question authority) you might agree with this article in the AMA News:
Aggressive end-of-life care for Medicare dialysis patients is pervasive
Hospitalization, ICU admissions and feeding tubes are common. Nephrology guidelines call for advance planning and advise caution in elderly dialysis.
The article goes on to […]

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