Tuesday, October 06, 2009

Strange Stuff below the fold

Crop damage hits P6B in the Philippines.
This means that they'll have to import rice again this year.

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and an article about how Filipinos respond to disaster.
“We Filipinos are very interesting—even if our houses are destroyed by a typhoon, we are still smiling,” Pascual said. “We still have that joyful disposition and this is because of our faith. We believe that God is with us and will not forsake us.”
And of course the churches are at the forefront of helping with disaster relief, and faith inspires people to help their destitute neighbors and relatives.

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ACORN embezzlement was $5 million, not $1 as previously reported.
By keeping it secret, apparently the statute of limitations gives them a "get out of jail free" card
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No Hippocratic oath, please, we're British...
In the UK, a young mentally ill woman was left to die by physicians because she "said" she wanted to die even though she used a method that she knew was not necessarily fatal, had changed her mind after attempted suicides several times before and sought emergency room help this time...

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The PC are now changing the definition of "death" to include those who have brain damage.
It's for the good of all those people who need organs of course, not because it would save taxpayer money...
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But not all strange stuff is depressing:
Here is an article on a frozen baby mammoth
more here.

her name is "Lovely" (Lyuba)

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