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Rednecks for Obama

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:21:32 GMT

clipped by: wiccantexan

Clip Source: rednecks4obama.com

We now have online ordering of Rednecks for Obama shirts and bumper stickers - check out the merchandise page.

Are you a redneck who supports Barack Obama? TELL US YOUR STORY on our Guestbook!

Tags: obama, election, rednecks

Diamonds: Not Just Wealth but Health?

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:05:40 GMT

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Clip Source: www.dailygalaxy.com

Diamonds: Not Just Wealth but Health?

diamonds have a real intrinsic value other than "looking pretty", with mass-produced nanodiamonds helping to cure cancers.

Certain chemicals can greatly reduce the risk of lingering cells restarting all the cellular trouble after a tumor has been removed. The problem is that getting those drugs into the system can either result in flooding the entire body with the agent, with all manner of unwanted effects, or using site-specific implanted patches which give up their contents all too quickly.

Unless they're made of nanodiamonds. Thanks to their large biocompatible surfaces, the clusters of mini-gems can hold large reserves of many different kinds of agents which are slowly released over a period of months.

researchers at MIT are also working on using gold as a cancerbuster.

It seems that in this new age of information and nanotech, even gold and gems have to find new jobs. Better ones.

Scientists Explore New Source of Stem Cells

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:07:30 GMT

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Clip Source: www.latimes.com

Scientists explore new source of stem cells

Scientists have converted cells from human testes into stem cells that grew into muscle, nerve cells and other kinds of tissue, according to a study published Wednesday in the online edition of Nature.

The stem cells offer another potential alternative to embryonic stem cells for researchers who aim to treat diseases such as diabetes and Parkinson's by replacing damaged or malfunctioning cells with custom-grown replacements.

Scientists have also derived flexible adult stem cells from skin, amniotic fluid and menstrual blood.

They are theoretically superior to traditional embryonic stem cells because they can be obtained directly from male patients and used to grow replacement tissue that their bodies won't reject

The cells also have an ethical advantage in that they do not require the destruction of human embryos.

it remains to be seen whether the germline stem cells are able to form as many kinds of functional cells as embryonic stem cells.

A "Christian" Cure for Homosexuality

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:20:00 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Bastards.

Clip Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

"How many of you are in need of some hope here tonight?” A murmur passes through the dark auditorium, pleasing the man with the microphone. Heads nod. “How many of you are at the end of your rope?” he continues. “How many are ready for an encounter with the Lord?” The man on stage, dressed in chinos and a crisp white shirt, is Alan Chambers. The clean-cut, married father of two is the leader of Exodus International, an organisation that believes it can help people to “find freedom from homosexuality through the love of Jesus Christ”.

“Am I in denial?” he asks. “Absolutely. I live a life of denial and I love it. I didn't choose my same-sex feelings but I do choose how I'm going to steward them. Freedom is possible.” At Exodus people are not gay; they “struggle with same-sex attraction” (SSA).

“The opposite of homosexuality is not heterosexuality,” says Chambers, sagely. “It's holiness.”

Tags: heathens

2057 - The World

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:03:33 GMT

clipped by: Michael Black
clipper's remarks: Educational video about what scientists and technology developers have accomplish and plan to have accomplished by 2057

Clip Source: video.google.com

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Tags: education

Jews Protect Palestinians in Harvest of Hate

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:15:19 GMT

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clipper's remarks: It is always good to find examples of Godliness and humanity beneath the global hurricane of violent hatred, vicious condemnation, shrill hysteria and poisonous anger.

Clip Source: www.independent.co.uk

In the shade of the trees where they have been picking olives all morning, in this wadi, south-east of Nablus, a Palestinian farmer, Jamal Otman Koarik, and two of his daughters share a lunch of home-baked bread, zatar, oil, courgettes and salad with three visitors. It's a bucolic scene that could have happened any time in the past century. But what makes it notable in 2008 is that the guests who have been helping Mr Koarik pick the olives are Israeli Jews: a rabbi, an anthropologist and a youth worker, Hellela Siew.

Asked why he and his volunteers make this often risky mission each year, the US-born rabbi says "if we really believe" the Biblical text that all human beings are made in God's image, "we have got to put our money where our mouth is and be here in an active way to defend human rights". And he also cites the "dialogue of the olive groves" in which Israelis and Palestinians who "have to live and die here together" have "no choice but to communicate"

Tags: palestine-israel

Microscope reveals developing fish embryo

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:05:55 GMT

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Clip Source: www.abc.net.au

A new high-powered microscope has allowed scientists watch a zebrafish develop from a single cell into an embryo with a beating heart, the first time this has been possible in vertebrates, say researchers.

The zebrafish digital embryo, showing the movement of cells encoded in colour on the left-hand side

The team, based at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, created a three-dimensional digital reconstruction of the tiny, developing fish.

They believe the technology may provide insights into how human organs form and lead to a better understanding of the genetic underpinnings of some diseases.

"This is like being able to watch an animal getting a life," says Dr Joachim Wittbrodt, who led the study published in the journal Science.

"You have a clump of cells that are transforming into an embryo with a beating heart while you are watching."

Scientists have previously achieved this feat with invertebrates such as worms, which only have a few hundred cells

Banksy Show, New York

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:57:35 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Go to site for videos

Clip Source: thevillagepetstoreandcharcoalgrill.com

World Mental Health Day

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:09:35 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Although mental health problems occur on a massive scale across the world, discrimination, stigma and silence about the facts are routine. With stress, depression, anxiety increasing across the world it is bizarre that there is so little media coverage,

Clip Source: www.wfmh.com

ENGLISH PDF

Clip Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Clip Source: www.mind.org.uk

World Mental Health Day has been celebrated annually on 10 October since
1992. Every year a different theme is set by the World Federation for World
Mental Health Day. The theme for 2007 is 'Mental health in a changing world: the impact of culture and diversity'.

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

The fallout from the economic downturn could be a significant threat to mental health, according to a survey.

House repossession was rated as the event most likely to cause mental health problems, ahead of redundancy, or finding out about infertility.

Clip Source: www.who.int

Mental health is defined as a state of well-being in which every individual realizes his or her own potential, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to her or his community.

Tags: mental health day

not for the faint hearted

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:10:17 GMT

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Clip Source: einestages.spiegel.de

Obama Will Be One of the Greatest (and Most Loved) American Presidents

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:24:09 GMT

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clipper's remarks:

Frank Schaeffer is the author of CRAZY FOR GOD-How I Grew Up As One Of The Elect, Helped Found The Religious Right, And Lived To Take All (Or Almost All) Of It Back.

Beautiful essay. I just sent it to my parents to shore them up in their hard decision to abandon the Republican party for Obama.

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

Obama Will Be One of The Greatest (and Most Loved) American Presidents

Great presidents are made great by horrible circumstances combined with character, temperament and intelligence.

Obama is one of the most intelligent presidential aspirants to ever step forward in American history. The likes of his intellectual capabilities have not been surpassed in public life since the Founding Fathers put pen to paper. His personal character is also solid gold. Take heart, America: we have the leader for our times.

I say this as a white, former life-long Republican. I say this as the proud father of a Marine. I say this as just another American watching his pension evaporate along with the stock market! I speak as someone who knows it's time to forget party loyalty, ideology and pride and put the country first. I say this as someone happy to be called a fool for going out on a limb and declaring that, 1) Obama will win, and 2) he is going to be amongst the greatest of American presidents.

Tags: hope

McCain Campaign Sends Out Fake Absentee Ballots

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:33:16 GMT

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clipper's remarks: FLORIDA, IOWA, NORTH CAROLINA, OHIO, OREGON, MINNESOTA, MISSOURI, PENNSYLVANIA, VIRGINIA, WISCONSIN

Clip Source: www.ickypeople.com

The McCain campaign and the Republican Party continue to prove they are not interested in doing what is best for the country. Instead they are increasing their tactics to actually try and prevent American citizens from voting this November.

The latest illegal, and let me emphasis that, illegal tactic, is mailing out applications for absentee ballots to registered Democrat voters at least 10 states. The ballots the McCain campaign are mailing out in every state contain at least one error meant to disqualify the voter when the application is submitted. The McCain camp say they have sent out over 1 million applications in Ohio alone.

Voters in the following states should be on the lookout for the phony ballots sent by McCain: Florida, Iowa, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Minnesota, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin. The phony ballots could show up anywhere, so please let your friends and family, especially older members, know to throw the ballots in the garbage.

I'll Take Hope Over Fear and Loathing, Thank You Very Much

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 06:00:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I am by training a historian. My focus of study has been 20th century Europe and the rise of fascism. The "othering' taking place on the right and from the Republican candidates themselves is horrifying to behold. Who's to blame for the economic crisis? Barney Frank (faggot!), ACORN (niggers!), Barack Hussein Obama (half-breed Muslim!). I see it on the internet, I see it on TV, I see it in newspapers, I see it here on ClipMarks: race-baiting, fear-mongering, scapegoating.

Enough! Not here! Not now! Not ever again!

If I may quote Obama, "Not this time!

Clip Source: mediamatters.org

Savage: "I fear that Obama will stir up a race war ... in order to seize absolute power"

During the October 8 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Michael Savage invited callers to discuss what they "fear the most if [Sen. Barack] Obama wins" the presidential election. After airing a clip of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Savage said: "I fear that Obama will stir up a race war. You want to ask me what I fear? I think Obama will empower the racists in this country and stir up a race war in order to seize absolute power." Savage later said: "I want you to call this show and tell me what you fear about Barack Hussein Obama as president."

SAVAGE: Oh no, I want everyone to strip off all of their social constraints right now on this show. And I want them to get down to the core fear that they have for Obama. I want to hear it on this show, and I thank you. And you can call me at 1-800-449-8255. Don't hold anything back.

Tags: race

Obama Ayers smear ends here

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:39:05 GMT

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Clip Source: www.npr.org

Walter Annenberg, a lifelong Republican and former ambassador who was appointed by Presidents Nixon and Reagan, funded an ambitious program to reform urban education in many cities in the mid 1990s. Ayers was an important member of the group that developed and wrote the grant proposal to the Annenberg Foundation.

But no one on the board or on the Annenberg Challenge staff remembers Obama being any closer to Ayers than to any other member of the board. The Annenberg board also included several civic, business and education leaders, many of them Republicans.

"It's ridiculous. There is no reason at all to smear Barack Obama with this association. It's nonsensical, and it just makes me crazy. It's so silly."

said former Illinois state Republican Rep. Diana Nelson, who worked with both Obama and Ayers over the years.

this attack

"a smear campaign. It's a political diatribe that has no basis in fact. The Chicago Annenberg Challenge was an extremely positive initiative.

Tags: politics

Gitmo release order angers Bush

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:09:57 GMT

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clipper's remarks: But no evidence suggests these Uighurs are terrorists - they are from China's Xinjiang province, where China wars against separatists. Were detained by Pakistanis, turned over to USA years ago; now, no one will take them.

Clip Source: english.aljazeera.net

A US judge has ordered the release of 17 Chinese Muslim detainees from the US detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in what has been seen as a rebuke to the Bush administration

judge

said there was no evidence the men were a security risk and that the US constitution prohibits indefinite detention without cause

The Bush administration reacted with anger to the ruling, with a spokesman for the department of justice saying it presented "serious national security and separation of powers concerns and raises unprecedented legal issues".

Many Muslim Uighurs seek greater autonomy for the region and some want independence, however China has waged a relentless campaign against what it calls their violent separatist activities.

The Uighurs, from the Xinjiang province in western China, had been living in a camp in Afghanistan during the US-led bombing campaign

They fled into the mountains and were detained by Pakistani authorities, who handed them over to the US.

Tags: uighurs