Monday, March 17, 2008

Headlines below the fold

Food prices going up due to ethanol mandates?
Here, rice is higher...maybe due to high oil prices for import, transport and handplow diesel.

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Nicolas Kristoff of the Times reminds readers of the reality of prostitution ... Ironically, countries that legalize prostitution increases society's tolerance of prostitution, leading to an increase in more women becoming entrapped ....out of economic necessity or from pimps taking their passports away and forcing them to work...

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GetReligionBlog explains that the template for the Pope's visit is ready for them to twist Benedict's words to fit their pre conceived story...
He also suggests a contest:

We may need an ongoing contest, during coverage of this meeting, to count all of the scare quotes that reporters are going to put around crucial words such as “relativism,” “truth” and even “Catholic.”

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only 3% of news stories cover Iraq...is that because much of the news is good, or because no one cares?

And the EU tells Serbia to quit complaining they are losing territory if they want to join the EU...whoops...they forgot about Putin.


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