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  • Excavating Iraq's Mass Graves

    12/28/2005 6:19:34 PM PST · by pleikumud · 9 replies · 472+ views
    Iraqi and U.S. officials have prepared a long-range plan to excavate mass graves in Iraq and prepare forensic evidence of crimes against humanity, according to Andrew Natsios, administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in May 2003, more than 270 mass graves in Iraq have been reported, Natsios told reporters March 17 at the State Department's Foreign Press Center in Washington. Some of the graves are relatively small, containing a few dozen remains, while other graves are hundreds of meters long, according to a report distributed at the briefing. There are 300,000-400,000...
  • Coalition forces helping Muslims complete hajj (our incredibly decent military)

    12/13/2005 1:07:12 PM PST · by STARWISE · 8 replies · 703+ views
    Stars and Stripes ^ | 12-12-05 | Joseph Giordano
    Mideast edition, Monday, December 12, 2005 U.S., Afghan and coalition troops are helping groups of Afghan Muslims to complete the hajj, the annual religious pilgrimage to Mecca. Last week, some 150 Afghans flew from Kandahar Airfield to Saudi Arabia, with a little assistance from the troops. Making the hajj at least once in a lifetime is one of the pillars of Islam. More than 4 million Muslims from throughout the world are expected to participate in the hajj this year. In recent years, the sheer number of pilgrims has led to stampedes and other accidents in which hundreds have been...
  • Husband/Wife both dying, ComEd wants money

    12/07/2005 10:56:26 AM PST · by southlake_hoosier · 64 replies · 1,763+ views
    December 7, 2005 | Southlake Hoosier
    I know that Vanity items are mostly looked down upon, but I need some help. I am hoping that someone can lead me in the right direction, or point me to it, or someone in Illinois works for a organization that can help. My Brother-In-Law was diagnosed with Luekemia about 4 1/2 years ago. He was given 5 years at the most. His wife in the meantime has had lung and heart problems. At the moment she is at home, Hopsice is there and she has at most 48 hours to live. My wife has been taken care of his...
  • What Was The Worst Year Of Your Life?

    11/26/2005 3:54:50 PM PST · by UnBubba · 51 replies · 737+ views
    Vanity ^ | 11-26-2005 | Me
    I just finished reading about that sorry b*st*rd, George Clooney: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1528789/postsHe whines on about the past twelve months being the worst year of his life. Boo Hoo. I guess being a world traveling multi-millionaire isn't as wonderful as we might think.What I have discovered over the years is that good and bad times are somewhat cyclical. Everything can be going well and then, all of a sudden, a bad cycle will emerge. The same is true in reverse.I thought it might be enlightening to hear what real people have to say about the worst year of their life. I am...
  • The Singularity Is Near

    11/19/2005 11:34:03 AM PST · by Momaw Nadon · 161 replies · 3,123+ views
    http://singularity.com ^ | September 22, 2005 | Ray Kurzweil
    At the onset of the twenty-first century, humanity stands on the verge of the most transforming and the most thrilling period in its history. It will be an era in which the very nature of what it means to be human will be both enriched and challenged, as our species breaks the shackles of its genetic legacy and achieves inconceivable heights of intelligence, material progress, and longevity. For over three decades, the great inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil has been one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future. In his classic...
  • Supporting China, or human beings?

    10/24/2005 9:18:59 AM PDT · by ocst00 · 18 replies · 373+ views
    All Kinds of Wristbands ^ | 10-24-2005 | John Rollins
    This guy All Kinds of Wristbands seems to make a compelling argument for these wristbands. You can check out the site for yourself, but his message seems to be that humanity in general (cancer patients, troops, hurricane survivors) can all be helped by this. This includes poor Chinese people who need a job because of their crappy government. Thoughts?
  • To the general media, No more beating around the bush, say it out loud: ARAB RACISM & ISLAMIC JIHAD!

    10/21/2005 2:10:54 PM PDT · by Actuality · 18 replies · 1,126+ views
    http://www.geocities.com/realtrueactuality
    ARAB RACISM & ISLAMIC JIHAD!!! Are Militant Muslims DECAPITATING Tourists in S. Philippines? IT'S ARAB MUSLIM FANATICS' RACISM + JIHAD!!! Did Sadistic Saddam attack Arab Kuwaiti 'brothers' tortured them horrifically? IT'S ARAB MUSLIM FANATICS' RACISM + JIHAD!!! Did Sadistic Saddam BUTCHER/GASSED/TORTURED HIS OWN PEOPLE? IT'S ARAB MUSLIM FANATICS' RACISM + JIHAD!!! Do Arab Muslim Militant Hamas/Islamic-Jihad/other 'Palestinian' Militants (& often Fatah - connected to the official 'Palestinian' authority) TARGET BABIES, (not as the West targets terrorists) Yes or no? IT'S ARAB MUSLIM FANATICS' RACISM + JIHAD!!! Did Arab Islamists attack French subways? (1985) IT'S ARAB MUSLIM FANATICS' RACISM +...
  • Pakistani girl loses nose, lips for seeking divorce (7th century barbarian alert)

    09/24/2005 8:24:15 PM PDT · by DCWatson · 23 replies · 1,877+ views
    Dhimmi Watch ^ | 9/23/2005 | Asim Tanveer
    Here is yet another case of savage butchery committed against a woman for offending the honor of a man. From the New Brisbane's News: MULTAN, Pakistan - A Pakistani man cut off the nose and lips of his 19-year-old sister-in-law after she went to court for a divorce in a tribal area of the central province of Punjab, police said on Thursday. Abbas then attacked the girl, hacking off her nose and slicing off her lips. A doctor treating the girl said her nose had been cut off from the bridge and her lips partially severed. Numerous cases have also...
  • We Can All Relate

    09/09/2005 5:51:12 PM PDT · by Forgiven_Sinner · 2 replies · 536+ views
    Wall Street Journal ^ | Thursday, September 8, 2005 12:01 a.m. EDT | PEGGY NOONAN
    Soldiers, commanders, children, parents: The human face of a natural disaster. The e-mail came from a reader, U.S. Marine Corps, retired: So, I was driving down I-20 from NE Columbia [S.C.] toward the city when I began to pass this huge convoy of Army trucks, Humvees, etc. The convoy was in the right lane. I was driving in the left. The convoy vehicles were loaded with tough-looking young soldiers, and each of them had the familiar "AA" (All American) patches of the famous 82nd Airborne Division stitched on their sleeves. Of course--being such an enormously long convoy of these young...
  • I don't know about you (I have an idea) but I'm sick and tired of the MSM burying good news!

    09/02/2005 1:28:16 PM PDT · by Cincinatus' Wife · 120 replies · 2,617+ views
    http://www.chron.com/# ^ | September 2, 2005
    I see Americans helping Americans. I hear stories and see photos that inspire me! I thank God I live in America.Brett Coomer / Chronicle A paramedic carries a pair of girls away from an Army helicopter after they were airlifted from their flooded home in New Orleans on Tuesday. More Chronicle PHOTOSI just listened to the local D.C. radio news and they played a woman screaming about no showers in the Astrodome. No this, no that, no nothing (I hear different). Then they quoted Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich making snide remarks about the progress of relief efforts. Melissa Phillip...
  • 'We're All in This Together'

    09/01/2005 3:01:00 AM PDT · by Cincinatus' Wife · 29 replies · 744+ views
    Dallas Morning News ^ | September 1, 2005
    Living in the most materially advanced civilization in history, we Americans forget how fragile civilization is and the tragic nature of the human condition. This week, nature reminded us. .....Civilization has been compared to skin stretched over a skull – that is, the thin veneer under which the ever-present savage dwells. We have seen the truth of that observation borne out in horrifying tales of looters, some of them armed – and some of them police officers – running rampant in flooded New Orleans. To paraphrase Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the line between civilization and barbarism runs through every human heart. And...
  • Iran expresses grief at deaths of American people by Hurricane Katrina disaster

    08/30/2005 3:05:55 PM PDT · by F14 Pilot · 51 replies · 1,430+ views
    IRNA ^ | Wednesday August 31, 2005
    Iran expresses grief at deaths of American people by Hurricane Katrina disaster Iran-US-Condolence Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi on Tuesday expressed grief at deaths of people in the United States caused by Hurricane Katrina. He said that Iranian nation and government sympathize with American people especially the bereaved families of the natural disaster. He hoped that situation in the flood hit states of America would return to normal soon. At least 50 people died in Mississippi and flood waters poured into low-lying New Orleans through levees battered by powerful Hurricane Katrina.
  • Assisted dying by the backdoor (Quiet developments are shifting the UK law on ending life.)

    08/25/2005 12:38:27 PM PDT · by jb6 · 1 replies · 205+ views
    Spiked ^ | 7 July 2005 | Kevin Yuill
    Though assisted dying seems to have been out of the news, several quiet developments have furthered its cause in the UK. First we have the highest judge in the land, Lord Chief Justice Woolf, supporting a move by the Home Office to set gradations of sentences for murder. When asked about mandatory sentences, Woolf noted the differences in murder: 'If you intend to kill someone deliberately then a life sentence may be the only appropriate sentence. But you can have someone who has a relative who is suffering pain of severity which someone in my position can only try to...
  • An Open Letter to George W. Bush from Cindy Sheehan

    08/12/2005 4:03:22 AM PDT · by F14 Pilot · 207 replies · 4,926+ views
    realclearpolitics.com ^ | November 4, 2004
    Dear George, You don’t mind if I call you George do you? When you sent me a letter offering your condolences on the death of my son, Spc. Casey Austin Sheehan, in the illegal and unjust war on Iraq, you called me Cindy, so I naturally assume we are on a first name basis. George, it has been seven months today since your reckless and wanton foreign policies killed my son, my big boy, my hero, my best-friend: Casey. It has been seven months since your ignorant and arrogant lack of planning for the peace murdered my oldest child. It...
  • Darwinian thought and the march to the Holocaust

    08/01/2005 7:26:21 PM PDT · by david ford · 6 replies · 464+ views
    I'll reply to this with a chronology.
  • Moral Debate: Procedure Risks Making Monkeys More Humanlike

    07/14/2005 7:57:51 PM PDT · by Mrs. Don-o · 12 replies · 388+ views
    LiveScience ^ | 14 July 2005 | Robert Roy Britt
    The insertion of human stem cells into monkey brains runs a "real risk" of altering the animals' abilities in ways that might make them more like us, scientists said today. A panel of 22 experts -- including primatologists, stem cell researchers, lawyers and philosophers -- debated the possible consequences of the technique for more than a year. While the group agrees it is "unlikely that grafting human stem cells into the brains of non-human primates would alter the animals' abilities in morally relevant ways," the members "also felt strongly that the risk of doing so is real and too ethically...
  • As the World Turns. Turns. Turns . (Life's lottery)

    07/11/2005 7:04:27 AM PDT · by Cincinatus' Wife · 4 replies · 443+ views
    Washington Post ^ | June 11, 2005 | Stephen Reiss
    It turns out your real estate agent was right. In determining the historic reasons why societies thrived and conquered, while others stayed backward, the answer is: location, location, location. At least that's the persuasive theory advanced by Jared Diamond, a UCLA professor, MacArthur "genius" grant winner and author of the best-selling book "Guns, Germs, and Steel." Now, Diamond's book has been adapted into a three-part television series by National Geographic that begins tonight at 10 on Maryland Public Television (Channel 22) and tomorrow at 9 p.m. on WETA (Channel 26). The shows strive for an epic feel, hopscotching the continents...
  • Could Asia Have Been The Cradle Of Humanity?

    07/06/2005 1:12:13 PM PDT · by blam · 53 replies · 1,238+ views
    The Boston Globe ^ | 7-5-2005 | David Ropeik
    Could Asia have been the cradle of humanity? By David Ropeik, Globe Correspondent | July 5, 2005 Science continues to struggle with one of the most basic questions of all: Where did humans come from. There isn't much question that modern humans came out of Africa, probably in several waves of migration over the past 100,000 years. But it now appears that the ancient ancestors who gave rise to those African humans might have come from Asia. Until recently the only fossils of anthropoids -- the creatures at the base of the branch of the evolutionary tree that gave rise...
  • Celebrities' Embrace of Africa Has Critics

    07/01/2005 3:42:31 PM PDT · by Pharmboy · 12 replies · 532+ views
    NY Times ^ | July 1, 2005 | ALAN COWELL
    Jon Super/Associated Press The rock star Sir Bob Geldof is leading a drive for aid to Africa. LONDON, June 30 - It is virtually impossible these days to open a newspaper or turn on the television here without confronting the cavalier locks, rumpled visage and hectoring tones of Sir Bob Geldof, the former Boomtown Rats lead singer now cast by friends and foes alike as Africa's savior. With awesome ubiquity - a rock concert here, a documentary there, interviews at every turn - he offers his listeners a blend of profanity, rage and messianic imprecation, urging the political leaders of...
  • Darwinian a-morality; Hitler was a homosexual

    06/02/2005 4:17:31 PM PDT · by david ford · 38 replies · 1,189+ views
    I'll reply to this with details.