According to the BBC, over a million people in Bogata protested FARC’s terrorist war against the Colombian people. On the streets of Bogota, the message was blunter. “No more Farc, we don’t want any more Farc, young people have to say no to the Farc and tell them to stop their violence,” student Jaime Martinez [...]

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Richard Sandler first hit my radar a few months ago when I received a review copy of The Gods Of Times Square, which I enjoyed a lot. Gods is a very interesting piece of film making, it operates on many levels. At first sight it is just a documentary about the the slightly ‘off kilter’ [...]

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Call the FBI….Call Homeland security… Call the X Files….call ArtBell… A fourth cable has been cut, this time off the coast of the UAE, disrupting communications in Qatar. Qatar Telecom (Qtel) said on Sunday a cable was damaged between the Qatari island of Haloul and the UAE island of Das on Friday, the fourth reported [...]

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Gloria tells Kevin that with a little luck she will get rid of Jeffery right after she gets rid of Jack and Sharon. Jeffery walks in and asks her what problem she is talking about. Kevin leaves the house after Gloria tells Jeffery she was talking about that dog in the house. She says she [...]

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Will and Gwen come in and find the door unlocked. They find Barbara sleeping on the sofa. When Gwen goes in to check on Hallie they find her missing. Gwen wants to know where she is. Meanwhile Sofie is seen carrying the baby saying she is her real mom and she is going to take [...]

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John knocks Marlena out and pulls a knife on Colleen. She tells him to go on when he tells her he was sent there to kill her. She says he will only condemn himself if he does. She tells him he is his own person. She says he is only doing what Stefano wants him [...]

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A sobering fictionalized account of child welfare programs that are overburdened, understaffed and ill equipped to respond to the growing needs of abused, neglected and high risk youth. Adding fuel to the already intense fire is the blatant corruption occurring on every level that has reduced children to paper statistics. Their value determined by the amount of medication and number of services that can be prescribed.

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Since the Last Supper the Catholic Church has been greatly influenced by our close cousins in faith the Jewish People. It is disturbing that in this era of theological reconciliation and ecumenical dialogue there is even a suggestion of anti-Semitism on the part of Catholics worldwide. Recently, Benedict XVI permitted the restoration of the Tridentine [...]

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The DNA reports: The film fraternity on Monday condemned Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray’s diatribe against Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan and said such attempts would be detrimental not only for Maharashtra but also for the country as a whole. Meanwhile Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh on Monday said stern action would be taken against the [...]

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Catholics worldwide should really celebrate our common heritages of faith with the Jewish people. Our pre-Vatican II liturgy might have had some anti-Semitic rhetoric for the celebration of Good Friday, and there was also misplaced blame against the Children of Israel for the death of Christ. However in the forty plus years since the close [...]

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From The Gathering Storm Blog Think Muslim women are the answer to reforming Islam? Think again. Many pundits believe that if we would only get Muslim women to demand that their shackles be removed from them, this could be one path to the reformation of the mid-evil religion of Islam. The pundits were banking on [...]

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In the dead of night last Thursday, British citizen and former SAS officer, Simon Mann was spirited away from a cell in Zimbabwe’s Chikurubi prison to face trial in Equatorial Guinea.  Britain’s Daily Mail reports that according to sources inside the (West African) country, “President Teodoro Obiang Nguema had promised his henchmen that once Mann [...]

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I am becoming increasingly worried about the authenticity of Barack Obama.  My first source of doubts was a report on npr by his friend and journalist who had followed him closely in Chicago who indicated that Obama was quite an operator and good at collecting monies from wealthy sources. More recently I discovered that Obama’s [...]

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(Photo courtesy of EYASU.SOLOMON at Flickr) I try to stay on the subject of Fraud, Phishing and Financial Misdeeds, but every once in awhile I stray a little off subject. Although, technically push polling is slightly off subject for this blog, it is similar to what I normally write about. “In the broadest sense, a [...]

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(London, UK) The Autism Awareness Campaign UK is urging the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rt.Rev. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of York, Rt.Rev.Dr.John Sentamu, the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormack Murphy O’Connor and other senior church leaders to speak out on the suffering of some parents, carers and people with autism and Asperger’s Syndrome on Autism Sunday [...]

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Mitt Romney has a message for evangelicals: Your choice is between the Mormon and the “liberal” McCain. Reports the Los Angeles Times: Evangelicals can “vote for Mike Huckabee and feel good about their vote,” the former governor of Massachusetts told a Missouri TV station. “But they’re basically saying, ‘We’re going to give the conservative vote [...]

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Results from this Weekend’s Maine Caucuses Updated Delegates Totals for Republican and Democrat National Convention Why the States who switched their primaries to early in the year may not make an impact The latest figures from the Maine Caucuses. 68% of towns in Maine reporting results: Mitt Romney — 52% of the vote. John McCain— [...]

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That’s right, you read the title to this piece correctly. I am admitting that I am a RINO. I admit it openly, freely, with relish even. For those unfamiliar, RINO is not only shorthand for rhinoceros, that great beast of the African plains, but it is also an acronym. It stands for, “Republican In Name [...]

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Republicans rooting for Rudy, overlooking his liberal positions on social issues and instead focusing on his national security hawkishness or his record of fiscal conservatism as Mayor of New York City, are already gravitating to John McCain based on Rudy’s say-so. It stands to reason that if these Republicans could forgive Rudy’s apostasies, they can [...]

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From Churchill’s Parrot blog This essay began as a response to an e-mail we received from a blogger asking to be removed from our Anglosphere Consortium blogroll because he found the inclusion of Lionheart among our ranks to be distasteful.  It has since been written and re-written at least five times, for the points made [...]

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In reaction to a narrowing focus and dwindling support for quality writing tackling the big issues relating to adoption, more than one-third of the remaining blogging staff of Adoptionblogs dot com resigned last week and today launched the realized vision of a totally new concept in online adoption communities: Adoption Under One Roof: covering adoption [...]

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Most major conservative radio-talk-show hosts are virtually in tears over the success of John McCain in this first part of the primary season. He’s just not, it seems, conservative enough for them. Apparently these conservative talking heads are missing the point — the point being that it is the people who are making McCain their [...]

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