Archive for April, 2007
Thursday, April 19th, 2007
Seriously. New studies with the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, THC, have shown that it can reduce active lung tumors and prevent their spread. And there is hope that similar results will occur with brain, prostate, and skin cancers.
THC is the ingredient in marijuana that makes you high. ...
Posted in Current Affairs, Health, Science | 6 Comments »
Wednesday, April 18th, 2007
An international poll by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and WorldPublicOpinion.org has found that a majority of global citizens think the United States plays the role of international policeman more than it should, that it fails to take other country's interests into account when it does act, and that ...
Posted in Current Affairs, DailyFeatured, General, Politics, Poll Results, World News | 25 Comments »
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007
Virginia Tech School Shooting - Click Here for more great videos and pictures!
To vent:
I am bewildered by what happened at VA Tech. I cannot think of who would take a gun and be so selfish as to take that many lives out. It is totally perplexing and totally ...
Posted in Diaries | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007
[Today is Tax day, and for those who wait until the last minute, you got an extra two days of procrastination this year. In the spirit of the day, I offer this article I first wrote in the summer of 2005 about how our government collects and uses our ...
Posted in Current Affairs, Economics, Politics | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007
I get a lot of junk mail. Almost 140 pieces last month alone. I thought spam was supposed to get rid of junk mail. Instead, I also get about 350 pieces of e-mail spam a month in addition to the junk mail I get in my physical box. Most of ...
Posted in DailyFeatured, Environment, General, Miscellaneous | 8 Comments »
Monday, April 16th, 2007
It is being widely reported that at least thirty people have been killed on the campus of Virginia Tech University. Apparently the shootings were carried out by a lone gunman that witnesses report to be a male in his early twenties. The motive is unclear at the moment, but the ...
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Monday, April 16th, 2007
As soon as the wrenching pain of Blacksburg settles into a dull ache, there'll be plenty of hand-wringing over the largest shooting spree in America's history. In a national expression of grief-stricken rubbernecking we'll discuss gun control, security procedures, and the effect of violence in our culture. There'll probably even ...
Posted in Current Affairs, General, Miscellaneous, Television, Video and Animation, World News | 7 Comments »
Monday, April 16th, 2007
New studies examining the effectiveness of sexual abstinence classes show that students who took part in the classes are just as likely to engage in sexual activity at the same age as students who didn't take the classes, proving that wishful thinking and handfuls of money can't change everything.
The studies ...
Posted in Current Affairs, Education, Health, Politics, Religion, Right Wing Nut, Science | 9 Comments »
Monday, April 16th, 2007
Citizens of South Korea must be terribly frightened by the prospect that soon Islamic terrorists, including al-Qaeda, will soon be flooding into their country following the recent announcement that South Korean troops will soon be pulling out of Iraq.
And we know that will happen, because President Bush has repeatedly said ...
Posted in Current Affairs, Iraq War, Middle East, Terrorism | 4 Comments »
Sunday, April 15th, 2007
Rove Emails Deleted - According to the White House, nearly four years worth of emails sought by the Senate Judiciary Committee were accidentally deleted by President Bush's political advisor Karl Rove. White House spokesperson Dana Perino said, "The President believes the emails were deleted by Al Qaeda operatives. He is ...
Posted in Current Affairs, General, IDIOT, Iraq War, Legal News, Miscellaneous, Politics, Right Wing Nut, World News | 1 Comment »
