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Bubba Smith has died. more HERE.
in our prayers.
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China mad at Philippines for selling oil leases near our islands.
StrategyPage has the background on China pushing around it's weaker neighbors ...and China is getting pushback from ASEAN...
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Bad guys are keeping aid from those starving in Somalia...even stopping food from NGO's even though a lot of the food aid comes from other Muslim countries.
sigh.
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The changes in Turkey get little news. AustinBay (who has recently written a book on the subject) has the historical background here.
The WhitepathBlog points out that the secular gov't actually abused the rights of the religious believers for years, and Erdrogen is merely letting them have some influence.
For some, the emergence of this “more Muslim” Turkey is a dangerous retreat from the “progressive” secularism that the country was subjected to since the days of its founder, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. For others, including me, it is a “normalization” process, for Turkey’s self-styled secularism was already too excessive. No wonder it was imposed by the barrel of a gun. So, pushing secularism back to where it belongs (to the state), and allowing the religious aspirations of the society to manifest themselves, including in politics, is a part of Turkey’s necessary and ongoing democratization.
whether this will end up as showing how a liberal Islam will prevail is the real question.
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Did earth once have two moons?
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The search for Green airconditioners...
now if they could only make them cheaper...
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I always stumble over Blackie at night, so this is good news:
Making Fido Glow in the dark...
you have to give doxycyline to make the dog glow under an ultraviolet light...so you can turn it on and off...
S. Korean scientists create a glowing dog they... by tvnportal
Factoid of the day: Some fungus infections are diagnosed by using an ultrviolet light also...
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