perfectionist with a god complex
Republican lawmakers plan to reintroduce a bill to suspend the sale of RU-486, the abortion pill, and probe the process surrounding its approval now that three U.S. deaths have been linked to the drug.
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for a little bit of perspective, according to a UNESO study, the maternal death rate in the US is 9 in 100,000.
snagged off MEFI
based on this satellite photo, i`m wondering if there is anything left upright in Tobago.
update from the trinidad express
Ivan leaves Tobago and heads for Grenada leaving a trail of damaged roofs and flattened trees and plants.
In Trinidad there are reports of some landslides and trees down on the Toco road. Weather experts predict continued rain and storms throughout Trinidad and Tobago this afternoon and all night. The full force of the hurricane was not felt as the eye passed just to the North of Tobago and did not make landfall.
update 2
apparently i`ve linked to a live image, which will track the path of ivan as the hours progress. Trinidad & Tobago`s luck and blessedness seems to have held yet again, i don`t think a lot of other places are going to be so lucky. as of this writing this is a category 3 storm and there is a lot of open water left for it to build up strength.
update 3
jamaica is going to get slammed there is no way around it. i`m worried about my friends and former co-workers and what`s going to happen in the years, afterwards. i said years, it took years to recover from gilbert and that was cat 3 hurricane, this is a weak cat 5. grenada is for the most a wreck; 90% damage, they too will take some years to recover, what makes it worse is with such widespread destruction no one seems to know when the bad news will end.
“According to author Christoph Luxenberg, due to a possible mistranslation of the Koran (if one were to read certain words as Syriac instead of Arabic), the “virgins” some [Islamic Fundamentalists] believe they will be rewarded with in paradise may be “white raisins” of “crystal clarity” instead.”
in September 2001, two weeks to the day after the World Trade Centre attacks, NY continued the democratic process to elect a new mayor.
He [Pataki] also wanted to send a message that democracy could not be derailed by acts of terrorism, his aides said yesterday. Announcing that the primaries would go ahead, the governor described Mr Giuliani as “a great mayor”. But he added: “The election is going to go forward. I tell you, if I were a resident of New York City, I would write him in.”
sourced from here
it would do well for everyone involved to remember that.
welcome to 1984
we`re already on the way there, this will just be the final nail in this particular coffin.
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there is an adage that i find very interesting, there are three sides to every story, each party`s side and the truth.
i posted a link to the NYT story about child porn and how much it upset me, i edited it later with some interesting questions that were being asked of the story [i don`t feeling like linking inside the blog, just look for it, it was within the last week].
there have been further developments and it`s gotten nasty, this link [january 31 entry], comprehensively covers the developments of the past week.
i posted the story at face value and i can`t say that it didn`t touch me, but in light of the questions raised, i find myself pondering how much was written to do just that. i`m not saying none of this exists, but to what extent was it over-exaggerated to garner sympathy and righteous indignation.
it saddens me as a media practitioner, notice i didn`t say journalist, how manipulative our industry has become, as with everything else it`s about the bottom line. it`s about what sells.
does it say something about me being in two fields that exist solely to manipulate the way people think?
edit: link fixed.
the revised list of words that you can`t say on network tv, ever.
As used in this section, the term `profane`, used with respect to language, includes the words `shit`, `piss`, `fuck`, `cunt`, `asshole`, and the phrases `cock sucker`, `mother fucker`, and `ass hole`, compound use (including hyphenated compounds) of such words and phrases with each other or with other words or phrases, and other grammatical forms of such words and phrases (including verb, adjective, gerund, participle, and infinitive forms).
and the results of the annual new scientist feedback competition.
For this year`s Feedback competition, readers were invited to invent a new scientific word that we need and define it in an appropriately pompous way. more
love him, hate him, fear him, honour him:
stephen king receives honorary book award
sleeping positions and personality
guess the name [try it with your favourite movies or tv, managed to stump it in the movie category]
big penis`d statue causes uproar in jamaica [although this isn`t news for us in the caribbean, i`m realising this is now starting to filter out to the rest of the world]