Question

If acetaminophen is the problem, why don’t they just ban that? Or, maybe before they do this how about they make every effort to educate the public? A federal advisory panel voted narrowly on Tuesday to recommend a ban on Percocet and Vicodin, two of the most popular prescription painkillers in the world, because of their effects [...]

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Cancer’s Trojan Horse?

This is cool!    Australian scientists have developed a “trojan horse” therapy to combat cancer, using a bacterially-derived nano cell to penetrate and disarm the cancer cell before a second nano cell kills it with chemotherapy drugs. The “trojan horse” therapy has the potential to directly target cancer cells with chemotherapy, rather than the current treatment [...]

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Another one

Billy Mays, 50 It looks like cause of death may be a head injury, as was the case with Natasha Richardson. Tampa police said Mays was found unresponsive by his wife Sunday morning. A fire rescue crew pronounced him dead at 7:45 a.m. It was not immediately clear how he died. He said he was [...]

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Man – the Creator, A Sunday Morning Reading

From: “Farewell to God; My reasons for rejecting the Christian faith” by Charles Templeton Man – the Creator Man, not God, created the world – our modern world. According to the book of Genesis, Elohim created the world in six days and on the seventh day he rested. “And God saw everything that he had [...]

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Mr. Fish

See Cartoons by Cartoon by Dwayne Booth – Courtesy of Politicalcartoons.com – Email this Cartoon

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“…the only anchor ever yet imagined…”

Greenwald: More important, look at the mentality being expressed — and about to be implemented — here:  there may be instances where we cannot get convictions because of witness unavailability or other logistical problems, so we’ll just imprison them anyway.  Does it really require any effort to demonstrate how dangerous that mentality is — that the President [...]

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If you had a ounce of doubt left

Obama intends to rule just as W did. I posted this link on my Facebook page last night: White House Is Drafting Executive Order to Allow Indefinite Detention; Move Would Bypass Congress The Obama administration, fearing a battle with Congress that could stall plans to close Guantanamo, is drafting an executive order that would reassert presidential [...]

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RIP Farrah and Michael

Yeah, I’m just sad about both of them. I’ve got nothin’.

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From the department of New Boss Same as the Old Boss

Tell me why the voters elected a Democratic majority if the Dems are going to keep letting the Republicans run the show?  Senate legislation to overhaul the U.S. health-care system will likely drop a proposed mandate that all employers offer medical benefits to their workers or pay a penalty, a senior Democratic lawmaker said. The move may make [...]

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What we think we know, and what we choose to ignore

Pre-election polling in Iran showed Ahmajinedad with a healthy lead in nearly every demographic (university students and wealthy being the only exception). Choosing to ignore this sort of information to bolster what we may wish to be so is foolish. The breadth of Ahmadinejad’s support was apparent in our preelection survey. During the campaign, for instance, [...]

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