Monday, October 13, 2008

Headlines below the fo

Mugabe back to old tyrannical tricks....just ignore that power sharing agreement in the corner...
At least they corrected the headline: Yesterday, the headline ran:Key Cabinet Posts go to Mugabe's Party...


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Really scary news of the day: these cases of hemorrhagic fever in South Africa. Why? two of her caretakers came down with it, and now 100 people are being observed to see if they come down with it too....
Tick fevers, and Dengue don't spread from person to person, but Ebola and Marburg viruses do.
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Religion a friend to reason and the Enlightenment? Why yes, says Seinfels in a book review at the nYTimes...
Not mentioned: The French revolution started the religion of militant secularism, which has killed a couple hundred million in the name of it's various reincarnations...


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The US is trying to shut down the leftist money raising pipeline to FARC......
the press usually report "Fighting" as the cause of the quarter million refugees with a "hint hint" that it's the government's fault...just ignore those landmines and those killed or kidnapped by FARC, they don't count.


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The Philippines has a similar problem:
The headlines about "Fighting" seems to imply both sides bad, but the quarter to half a million Christian refugees were fleeing the MILF attacks on unarmed civilians...
The bad news: If the Christians restart their militias, they will fight back Filipino style...



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and the really important scientific theory of the day:
'Kellock's Kinetic Energy Conker Theory"

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