http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/14-congress-invested-in-defense-contracts/

http://sanjuanangel.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/warnings-for-those-who-love-jesus/

http://ahraza.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/so-what-its-just-the-nro/

I hope you can come visit my blog sometime.

http://bigworldcentral.wordpress.com/

That’s true, but Bush’s fiscal year ended in October — not Obama’s. Obama was responsible for only a small sliver of the huge increase in the deficit.

But we must remember, we still have to pour a great deal of money into research to create drugs beyond vaccines to treat Alzheimer’s and other diseases that will bankrupt our country if not addressed.

I worked for Wyeth.

We must keep on the cutting edge of technology in this area since China has made it public knowledge that it is going full tilt into the Pharma business. They may have quality control issues now but they will care for that.

China is also firmly entrenched in many third world countries where vaccines will see great sales.

Of one thing I am sure: Myths are more powerful than the so-called truth in so many instances – and in so many cultures. I keep a copy of the GOLDEN BOUGH handy!

http://tommygilchrist.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/why-copenhagen-will-fail/

“Anche i diversi contesti culturali generano diverse abitudini, ma la natura umana sempre è la stessa. Nel personale esame di coscienza ognuno deve scoprire dove in lui è il più grande ostacolo all’accoglienza della grazia.

Quando si guarda ai vizi capitali non dal punto di vista della loro opposizione alla grazia, ma dalla difficoltà che creano, sivede che gli uomini li sperimentano in modo diverso dalle donne. Per gli uomini sovente il più difficile da fronteggiare èquello della lussuria, poi seguono gola, accidia, ira, vanagloria, invidia e avarizia. Per le donne il più pericoloso è lavanagloria e a seguire l’invidia, l’ira, la lussuria, la gola e ultimo l’accidia.

L’osservazione conferma queste tesi. Nei conventi le suore spesso vivono invidiandosi per piccole cose, ma al suono del campanello tutte vanno in cappella per cantare i vespri. I frati, invece, spesso non si interessano gli uni agli altri e dunque non sono gelosi, ma quando il campanello suona, in pochi partecipano alla preghiera comune.”

http://www.zammerumaskil.com/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=5554

i kept thinking after the forth one it was going to be the last

but you had many nice leaves

You might be interested in this little nugget about Abbas and the impending election.

http://www.mantlethought.org/content/mahmoud-abbas-all-or-nothing-peace-deal

Cheers,
Shaun

I say, the media needs to come clean with the lot of ‘em!

Too much writing on the (Berlin) wall for the first day.

“If that happens the united front against the coup in the outside world may buckle. The United States, which has already reopened its visa office in Tegucigalpa, the capital, appears willing to recognise the elections whether or not Congress votes to restore Mr Zelaya. But most of Latin America is unlikely to follow suit unless Mr Zelaya is reinstated before the ballot—especially since the head of the electoral tribunal says that anyone calling for a boycott will be jailed.”

All that matters is what the second sentence states, namely:

“The United States, which has already reopened its visa office in Tegucigalpa, the capital, appears willing to recognise the elections whether or not Congress votes to restore Mr Zelaya.”

Depending on political affiliations, this “scrap of paper” is viewed either as Hillary’s victory or as the United States saving face. Either way, it seems to mark the end of the crisis.

The research has really come through on this — in Sub-Saharan Africa, male circumcision has reduced male to female transmission by half.

Great article on the topic:
http://studentpulse.com/articles/1/controlling-and-preventing-hiv-in-southern-africa

1- The list is not complete: for example, Mr. Seib (WSJ) also attended the meeting. He seems to be relatively impartial.
2- The Washington Post has also columnists who are more impartial, to say the least, than Mr. Dionne and Mr. Robinson: e.g. Mr. Ignatius and Mr. Gerson, to say nothing of Mr. Krauthammer.
3- Mr. Dionne is just too partisan to be of any real efficacy; Mr. Robinson is clearly partisan, but still worth reading.
4- The New York Times has Mr. Brooks, who is reasonably impartial. Mr. Douthat also. Unsigned NYT editorials are as a rule pro-Administration.
5- Mr. Herbert is clearly pro-Obama, but still worth reading, on any matters not directly related to race. Mrs. Dowd is at times entertaining, but not very informative on political issues.
6- The three main opinion newspapers (NYT, WP and WSJ) were invited.

“And there is even reason to suspect that, in creating his libertarian-inclined character, Goscinny took inspiration not only from France’s heroes, but also from the U.S. For where does Asterix hail from? A fictional village, in what used to be called Armorica. Close enough.”

Armorica has no link whatever with America and there is no evidence of any inspiration from the U.S.:

1- What is Armorica?

Armorica or Aremorica is the name given in ancient times to the part of Gaul that includes the Brittany peninsula and the territory between the Seine and Loire rivers, extending inland to an indeterminate point and down the Atlantic coast.[1] The toponym is based on the Gaulish phrase are-mori “on/at [the] sea”, made into the Gaulish place name Aremorica (*are-mor-ika ) ‘Place by the Sea’. The suffix -ika was first used to create adjectival forms and then, names. The original designation was vague, including a large part of what became Normandy in the 10th century and, in some interpretations, the whole of the coast down to the Pyrenees. Later, the term became restricted to Brittany.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armorica

2- “Goscinny died suddenly in 1977 but Uderzo later continued the series alone, extending an international series of adventures of the warrior, his friend Obelix and his pet, Dogmatix.

Uderzo said the pair originally sought to create an authentically French comic. “What we wanted with Pilote was to create our own, homegrown comic strip heroes, because at the time youth magazines were full of comic strips from America,” he told the news conference.”

Source: Comic Book Hero Asterix the Gaul Hits 50

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,654167,00.html

No, actually he blamed everything on Clinton and used 9/11 to further his political agenda.

“It was really funny – foxes were climbing trees to get away from the cat.”

This would have been an interesting picture, if the trees were still standing. I presume that the trees were down.

ON MY WATCH…the writings of SamHenry
samandimp.wordpress.com

Freedom of the Internet IS Freedom of the Press – The Eagle’s Eye for October 20, 2009rnm

NEW YORK (AP) – Journalism is at risk and American society must act to preserve it. That’s a key message in a new report co-authored by Len Downie, former executive editor of The Washington Post.

In a paper commissioned by the Columbia University Journalism School, Downie and Michael Schudson, a Columbia professor, argue the government, universities and nonprofit foundations should step in as newspapers suffer financially.

Among other steps, the authors recommend that the government ensure the tax code allows local news outlets to operate as non-profits. They urge philanthropic organizations to support local reporting. And they suggest a fund be established using fees from telecom or Internet providers for grants to innovative local news groups