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Archive for October, 2011

-- Featured Comments -- I also remember the 5 cent bottle Coke machine but also an unusual indicident; as a 2rd or 3rd grader I picked up a beautiful childs dress that had been thrown in the ditch near my house in Baton Rouge (I walked to school naturally). It was still in the fancy clear plastic and was from Goudchaux's. We called and a store representative came out to retrieve the More

-- Featured Comments -- Stephen, Werner Von Braun thought modular were the way to go..but the goal was manned landing by end of decade...they adopted lunar rendevous intead of earth rendezvous..since the whole stack could be launched on one rocket not two or three..simpler system... but good pointOne: The space station was never meant to be a "Lab", that was hyperbole to get funding. Two: More

-- Featured Comments -- and now can we have the story about the study suggesting the opposite? BMI numbers don't predict who is healthy and who isn't. BMI says you are overweight and by definition "unhealthy" despite normal to better than normal blood pressure, every measure of cholesterol and normal blood sugar profile. Another tool for the Insurance/Medical Industrial complex More

-- Featured Comments -- Israel is not dependent on U.S. aid; it could manufacture all of its own weaponry. In fact, its products might out-compete American ones on the world market. This is one reason why the U.S. asked them to stop developing their own fighter jet back in the '80s and 90s. A lot of people don't seem to know that the aid is mostly in the form of guaranteed loans, More

-- Featured Comments -- I feel this article has lots of problems. The U.S. Vaccine Safety Datalink does not include the majority of KNOWN adverse events following vaccinations. From what I understand it is well known that most reactions to vaccinations are not reported to the CDC, therefore any vaccine safety data is flawed and not scientific. Nations that do have delayed and/or More

-- Featured Comments -- WastingtonDC: Information Imperialism indeed. It may well not be "too" hard to find a Chinese person, educated in China's dictatorially oppressed education system, who at least, speaks the Party Line. It is called "Staying alive in China". Conservative students in US universities learn, as students in China do, to avoid snickering at their ultra liberal More

-- Featured Comments -- Iowans will have a lot to celebrate tonight if things turn out the way they have been forecasted. Former Iowa Governor Terry Branstad will win handily today's Republican primary. A proven leader known for vision and consistency his position on cutting corporate taxes and the state budget puts him out front and first in the nation in putting his state's employment More

-- Featured Comments -- Asharq Alawsat , the leading Arabic International Daily: A House of Worship or a Symbol of Destruction? 16/08/2010 Abdul Rahman Al-Rashid He writes in the article that the Ground Zero mosque is a bad idea , will be used by radicals as " arena for promoters of hatred, and a symbol of those who committed the crime. At the same time, there are no practicing More

-- Featured Comments -- Your grandfather and father were WHITE. They were never the subjects of de jure segregation as any person of color over 45 has been. They received all kinds of opportunities that would have been closed to them if they were not white, from education, to housing to employment. As for telling Hispanics to 'go back,' most Hispanics' ancestors were here long before More

-- Featured Comments -- Jeesh, David, based on your description of that rush, maybe I will consider start smoking. Sounds interesting. And Janice, I really doubt the pictures will do it. Back in my high school days, we had gross pictures up the ying-yang, and it didn't bother kids at all. And even now the pictures aren't going to bother me. I know what smoking can do. The only reason More