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Headlines below the fold

2009-07-17T07:17:00.004+08:00

Family note: Another day, another typhoon.
It's pouring rain out, but no high winds here (we live inland of course).

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Philippine news: Candidates sign a "No guns, goons or gold" covenant"...

As if a murderer who takes huge bribes and kickbacks would not lie about it...
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Why we must ration health care, according to deathmaker Singer in the New York Times.

Uh, those "couple months" are two years median until the cancer starts to grow again, but as this study notes: At the study's conclusion, the median overall survival time had not been reached...translation: at the end of the study, most of those responding were still alive and well...and newer drugs are on the horizon that might extend life another couple of years.

of course, such honesty is not helping Obama rush through his "health care bill"....

and there is this Orwellian note: The rationing board in the UK is N.I.C.E.
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Stuff from the past

2009-07-16T08:00:00.005+08:00

History stuff links. Note the FRLINK may not be work friendly.

Illustration is Baby Cthulhu! How cute!
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Return to the Great Pyramid and How to build a pyramid
FRLINK
More here via the UKGuardian.

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Did The Medieval warm period enable the Inca empire to exist?

More on the Inca Empire HERE at PBS.
and HERE at NatGeo.

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Factoid for the day: Sex has been around for 380 million years...FRLINK
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and there is a mathematical calculation that explains why:
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News below the fold

2009-07-16T06:53:00.003+08:00

Iranian plane crash. In our prayers.

and David Warren comments on the successful news blackout by the Iranian government and the LATimes says everyone is waiting to see what happens on Friday.
more HERE
and The New Yorker comments on the "news blackout".

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HistoryNet has the stories of the 10 greatest emergency landings

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Fatah's aim is to destroy Israel, but you only know it if you understand Arabic and watch their TV programs.
I was astonished to see one report about this on CNN today...

And AlQaeda has actually published their plan to take over the world...

and AlQaeda is partly behind the uprising in western China (which like the Moro uprising in the Philippines is partly tribal resentment of more successful outsiders, but is now aided by terrorist groups which are funded by religious zealots).

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Headlines below the fold

2009-07-16T06:07:00.003+08:00

GatewayPundit has a picture of the health care plan HERE

discussion moved to BNN...so as not to bore you.

Your LOL cat of the day

2009-07-15T09:59:00.001+08:00

moar funny pictures

Literature trivia

2009-07-15T09:31:00.001+08:00

FYI: HNN has an article that links a Jamestown Shipwreck on Bermuda with the play The Tempest.

It's a deliberate conspiracy

2009-07-15T09:24:00.001+08:00

Cat owners may have suspected as much, but it seems our feline friends have found a way to manipulate us humans.

Researchers at the University of Sussex have discovered that cats use a "soliciting purr" to overpower their owners and garner attention and food.

Unlike regular purring, this sound incorporates a "cry", with a similar frequency to a human baby's.

The team said cats have "tapped into" a human bias - producing a sound that humans find very difficult to ignore.

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Musical interlude for today

2009-07-15T06:27:00.002+08:00

The movie "The Bishop's wife" was remade as "The Preacher's wife" a couple years ago.
I didn't enjoy it as much, maybe because Whitney Houston had an edge of bitterness in her character.
But the music was wonderful, so here's some gospel singing for today's musical interlude.

Stuff around the internet

2009-07-15T05:55:00.004+08:00

I've been slow on blogging because I've been fighting a nasty cold (not the flu: I had that last week. Just a cold, no fever or achiness, just coughing and wheezing as usual).

So here's a few things I am catching up on around the blogs.
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Justice Bader didn't propose eugenics, she just spilled the beans : everyone back then knew that the Supreme court Justices decided to change the law so that poor women could abort their kids safely and legally. (The real problem is her comfort with judicial activism, not eugenics.)
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Father Z is gradually posting talking points on the Pope's new encyclical (I haven't been well enough to read it).
Here's one for the Philippines:
Corruption and illegality are unfortunately evident in the conduct of the economic and political class in rich countries, both old and new, as well as in poor ones. Among those who sometimes fail to respect the human rights of workers are large multinational companies as well as local producers. (22)

He also tells rich countries to cut their own energy consumption, and stop pushing anti life programs on poor countries.

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Epi-log links to various curiosities, including the world's grossest Ice Creams.

Actually, I like sweet corn Ice cream, but I'll take a pass at raw horse meat ice cream.

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and did you know old movies are found at You tube, posted in small five minute intervals?

Here's one gem: Loretta Young at her best:

Quote of the day

2009-07-14T07:07:00.002+08:00

comes from "Spengler":

Writing in Newsweek July 9 Kathleen Kennedy Townsend argues that “Barack Obama represents American Catholic better than the pope does.” Of course, the pope is only the Bishop of Rome, whereas Obama is God.