2005-11-29
WILL MALVENAllow Iraqis to Take Lead: “Gloves-Off” Combat and “Torture”
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Squiggy: Civility is not pandering. Neither is using your brain. Just who is “the enemy”? Hint -...
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Allow Iraqis to Take Lead: “Gloves-Off” Combat and “Torture”
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If Gov. Schwarzenegger of California gives “Tookie” Williams clemency and allows this cold blooded killer to live, then he will prove to me and the world just how weak he really is. He will also prove once and for all without a shadow of a doubt that guys with big muscles have little or no [...]
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POSSIBLE HIATUS
I go into hospital for a rather large surgical procedure today. It is however day surgery so I hope to be back home by the evening and blogging away as usual. If that proves too optimistic, however, this blog may not be updated for a day or so.
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PATRIOTISM AND NATIONALISM
I have never [...]
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It doesn’t look like Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich’s horrible poll numbers are getting any better. Not that I’m complaining of course. (via Capital Fax)
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ABC looks at the growing black market in fertiltiy drugs. Sounds like a pretty dangerous way to improve your chances of having a child, since you have no idea what you’re actually buying, and have no physician supervision.
Michelle and John Stukus struggled for years to have a baby.
“It puts a strain on your marriage,” [...]
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Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich couldn’t get a law banning the selling of junk food in school cafeterias through the legislature, so he’s now trying to bypass the legislature altogether. Educate kids about nutrition, but don’t ban certain foods. That just treats kids like idiots and probably won’t accomplish anything anyway. Kids can still bring [...]
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Thanking American Oilmen
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How Sexism and Class Bias Distorted Perceptions of the Yates Case
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By Denise Noe
Andrea Yates’ murder convictions have recently been overturned. There is no question that she systematically and deliberately killed all five of her young children by drowning them. She pled not guilty by reason of insanity at her trial and the jury found her guilty. An appeals court has ruled that Yates is entitled [...]
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Screw Disabled Veterans
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Save Tookie?
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By Alisha Ryu
Baghdad - The trial of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and seven other co-defendants has been adjourned until next Monday to give the defense time to replace two attorneys, who were recently murdered.
Chief Judge Rizgar Mohammed Amin ordered the one-week postponement after one of the defendants, former vice president Taha Yassin Ramadan, refused [...]
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Six Iranian pilgrims have become the latest kidnapping victims in Iraq.
Authorities say the Iranians were abducted Tuesday morning in the town of Balad, more than 70 kilometers north of Baghdad.
The pilgrims join five Westerners who have been kidnapped in Iraq in recently, including a German woman and her driver who have been missing since last [...]
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Indonesia has reported its 12th human case of bird flu, and says it hopes to start producing the drug Tamiflu within months to fight the virus.
Health officials confirmed Saturday, that a 16-year-old boy has tested positive for the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu. Seven avian flu cases in Indonesia have been fatal.
Tamiflu medicineThe Health [...]
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China’s Agriculture Ministry has reported two new outbreaks of bird flu among poultry in the northwestern Xinjiang region and the central province of Hunan.
The ministry said Tuesday, that tens of thousands of birds were culled in both infected areas. China has confirmed three cases of bird flu in humans.
Elsewhere, the Asian Development Bank has announced [...]
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Yum: Mom Put Bleach in Daughter’s Macaroni and Cheese
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Vatican publishes edict prohibiting ordination of homosexuals
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Ban on men sitting next to children on airlines - PC gone mad?
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Commentary: Rape surveys: a reality gap - ‘Rape victims “asking for it”‘, headlined the Mirror on 21 November. ‘A third of Britons blame flirty women for rape’, reported Reuters. Amnesty International’s survey of Britons’ attitudes to rape sparked shock around the world. ‘Rape? In UK, they blame it on women’, reported the Times of India. [...]
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POSSIBLE HIATUS
I go into hospital for a rather large surgical procedure today. It is however day surgery so I hope to be back home by the evening and blogging away as usual. If that proves too optimistic, however, this blog may not be updated for a day or so.
CHICAGO’S WAR ON SELF DEFENCE [...]
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