The Clergy
Enjoy your life as a….79!!!
You’re not one who particularly ENJOYS taking risks, but then again,
it’s not really in your job description. What your duties DO entail are
manipulating the populace into whatever you what, and they’ll go for
it, because, let’s face it, the church is NEVER wrong! Not a bad deal!
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Don Cheadle and John Predergast write in the OpinionJournal:
As we sat in a refugee camp in Chad listening to Fatima describe how most of her family was killed by Sudanese government-sponsored Janjaweed militias, we found it incomprehensible that the world could not muster the political will necessary to protect her surviving family members or to […]
Derek Lowe has an interesting post up about what medicinal chemistry could do if Avian flu becomes a human epidemic. Not Much.
We have made amazing progress in medicine, but there is a lot we still cannot do.
(via Instapundit, who has more thoughts on Avian Flu as well)
Physicians for Human Rights:
Citing rapidly failing health and a need for immediate access to better medical care, today Physicians for Human Rights and the International Federation of Health and Human Rights Organisations (PHR/IFHHRO) called on the Libyan government to release prominent political prisoner, 63-year-old Fathi el-Jahmi, on humanitarian grounds. His isolated confinement and sporadic […]
Guardian Unlimited:
Iranian engineers have built a secret underground storage area for use as a uranium enrichment facility in a restricted military area of interest to the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency, an Iranian exile said Thursday.
The exile - Alireza Jafarzadeh - said by telephone from Washington that the “camouflaged tunnel-like facility” was completed recently at Parchin, […]
Fine? Why Fine? has an interesting post up about North Korean refugees.
“If we are so poor,” she continued, “it must be because of Kim Jong Il’s mistakes,” she said referring to North Korea’s leader.
Ya think?
Shelby unveils 450-hp Mustang Cobra:
Performance car icon Carroll Shelby and Ford Motor Co. will unveil the Ford Shelby Cobra GT500, the first Shelby Mustang in 35 years and the most powerful Mustang ever, Wednesday at the New York Auto Show.
The 450-plus-horsepower, supercharged, six-speed roadster, developed in conjunction with Ford’s Special Vehicle Team, takes its design […]
Instapundit highlights a column by Austin Bay and also posts reader John Beckwith’s thoughts:
As it is, we came pretty close as a society and electorate to giving up last year. If we had, it’s hard to see how the Jan 30 elections and and nascent democracy movement in the Middle East would have happened. If […]
I hadn’t planned any more Schiavo posts, but this Washington Times Editorial brings up a good point that I had been thinking, but hadn’t mentioned before:
The law, that vital foundation of our civilization, seems incapable of getting to justice of any sort in this sad case. If it is justice to end her life, the […]
The New York Times > Opinion:
The hungry children and the families dying of AIDS here are gut-wrenching, but somehow what I find even more depressing is this: Many, many ordinary black Zimbabweans wish that they could get back the white racist government that oppressed them in the 1970’s.
‘If we had the chance to go back […]
