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bb's--details are important

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:39:35 GMT

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Blocking emotional memories, the council asserted, risks "falsifying our perception and understanding of the world. It risks making shameful acts seem less shameful, or terrible acts less terrible, than they really are."

The council expressed a host of concerns and troubling scenarios.

For example, the council posited, what if somebody committed an act of violence and then took propranolol to dull the emotional impact. Would they come to think of violence as more tolerable than it really is?

Would rape victims, having taken memory-altering drugs to ease their trauma, forget key details vital to the prosecution of their attackers?

More broadly, is there a social obligation for people to remember the past events for the communal good, such as victims of the Holocaust?

"The impulse is to help people to not fall apart.

"But that you would treat these things with equanimity, the horrible things of the world, so that they don't disturb you ... you'd cease to be a human being."

said Dr. Leon Kass

UN Investigator Says USA Negelct of Homeless is Shameful

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:21:09 GMT

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clipper's remarks: So much for the idea that the USA is the "best nation in the world." If we won't house our most vulnerable citizens, how can we be described as the "best?"

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

UN special rapporteur says wealthy US ignoring deepening homeless crisis while pumping billions into bank rescues
• Investigator meets homeless victims of American dream

A United Nations special investigator who was blocked from visiting the US by the Bush administration has accused the American government of pouring billions of dollars into rescuing banks and big business while treating as "invisible" a deepening homeless crisis.

Raquel Rolnik, the UN special rapporteur for the right to adequate housing, who has just completed a seven-city tour of America, said it was shameful that a country as wealthy as the US was not spending more money on lifting its citizens out of homelessness and substandard, overcrowded housing.

Makes ya ask yourself how god lets this happen.

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:25:40 GMT

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clipper's remarks: i am at a loss for words......unreal......

Clip Source: www.foxnews.com

Father, 4 Sons Charged in Missouri Child Rape Case

In what investigators are calling a "horrendous" case of child abuse, five members of a Missouri family — a father and his four adult sons — are being charged with a host of shocking crimes against children as young as 11 years old.

Burrell Edward Mohler Sr., 77, and his sons were charged with committing numerous crimes, including child rape, sodomy and using a child in a sexual performance.

Police said Wednesday they were searching for more potential victims, including possible bodies on land owned by the family. Five victims have been located, but the number "could possibly expand," said Cpl. Bill Lowe of the Missouri highway patrol. He said all of the victims were under the age of 12 when they were molested.

The woman said she was forced to have an abortion when she was 11 years old and that she and her four sisters were forced to participate in mock marriage ceremonies before the men had sex with them, according to court documents.

Tags: rape, pedos, child, terrible, omg

Veterans Day 2009: Thank you

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:57:06 GMT

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clipper's remarks: They are casualties of war… and as far as I’m concerned, Sergeant Kimberly Munley, who took their cowardly attacker down, is a veteran today.

The terrorist enemy doesn’t have a formal chain of command that can sign an armistice, they don’t muster on clearly defined battlefields, and they’re quite happy to benefit from the efforts of deranged fanboys. If we don’t stand behind our professional soldiers, and give them the tools to do their jobs now, we will all become soldiers before this enemy is defeated.

Somewhere in the world tomorrow, an American soldier will ring in the eleventh hour of the eleventh day with gunfire. Another will arrive home after an honorable tour of duty, perhaps passing brothers and sisters in arms saying farewell to their families. A mother’s tears will fall on a letter from the far side of the world. Old veterans will spend a beautiful afternoon watching children play beneath the flag they raised at Anzio, Guadalcanal, Incheon, or Khe Sanh.

Clip Source: michellemalkin.com

Applebee’s honors vets and active duty military with a free meal today. Krispy Kreme is doing the same. Or take a vet out to McCormack & Schmick’s or Golden Corral for a special dinner.

Must-read Veterans Day tributes at milblog Mudville Gazette and from Blackfive’s Matt Burden, who reminds us: “It’s about the living.”

To honor our wounded troops, make sure you pitch in at Project Valour-IT. Today’s the last day of the annual fundraiser.

Happy 234th Birthday, Marines!

Doctor Zero on “The Eleventh Hour:”

On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of 2009, the wounded of Fort Hood will remember their fallen friends, and wonder how a man wrapped in enough red flags to turn him into a bloody mummy was allowed to infiltrate their base. Those wounded and dead rely upon us to ask the questions their superiors in the chain of command cannot comfortably answer. Calling the injured and dead of Fort Hood “victims” perpetuates the blindness that compelled those men and women to face the enemy unarmed.

Tags: airforce, army, coast guard, marines, national guard, national security, navy, veterans day 2009

Mourning the Victims at Ft. Hood

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:33:55 GMT

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Clip Source: www.time.com

China's record debt has economists worried

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:14:23 GMT

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Clip Source: money.cnn.com

In a world still awash in economic worry, China has stood apart as the one country that has come through the global slump with only the briefest of hiccups.

Last quarter the nation grew at a brisk 8.9% rate, and many economists expect it to expand even faster over the remainder of the year. Profits at large, state-owned companies that have benefited from Beijing's aggressive stimulus program are up sharply.

A lot of global CEOs, of course, are on the thank-God-for-China bandwagon, and it might seem a little churlish to question one of the world's few good-news economic stories. Yet a growing number of observers believe that China is creating its own bubble economy. And they have a case to make.

The U.S. fueled its housing and consumption bubbles by providing easy credit. China seems headed in the same direction, although the victims would be different this time.

In the first nine months of the year, Beijing has shoveled $1.27 trillion in new loans into the economy

Annual Balloon Release For Agent Orange Victims

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:41:16 GMT

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Clip Source: waronterrornews.typepad.com

On November 11, 2009 at 1:00 pm Eastern Standard Time, there will be groups and individuals all across America releasing balloons, butterflies, doves or other items of their choosing.

They are doing this in memory of the victims of Agent Orange. To recognize, remember and honor these fine individuals.

Who are these victims? They are the men and women who were affected by Agent Orange while serving in our military. How fitting then, that they are honored on a day set aside for honoring our veterans.

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We Salute You

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:26:51 GMT

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Clip Source: nickihawj.blogspot.com

We Salute You: Hmong, Lao Veterans of America to Kham Xiong and U.S. Army Victims

"Private First Class Kham Xiong has accomplished his honorable service to our great nation, the United States of America, I salute him and his fellow soldiers at Fort Hood killed in this terrible shooting," Colonel Wangyee Vang said on behalf of Lao and Hmong veterans from Minnesota and across the United States.

Private Kham Xiong and many of his family were natives of Minnesota's Twin Cities where there are large Lao Hmong communities in both St. Paul and Minneapolis. U.S. Army Private First Class Xiong was a Hmong refugee born in Thailand following the communist takeover in Laos and Hmong exodus at the end of the Vietnam War.

In times like this, we feel so powerless to give aid and comfort to the dead soldier’s family

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Fears over Ivory Coast compensation

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:25:05 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Toxic waste dumping. Shadowy figure..... feared by the locals. Who wrote that novel?

Clip Source: english.aljazeera.net

Thousands of people in Ivory Coast poisoned by toxic waste face being cheated out of $45 million in compensation after the money which was deposited in a bank account in the West African country, was frozen.

A local figure, claiming to be president of the National Co-ordination of Toxic Waste Victims of Cote d'Ivoire and who is unknown to the victims' lawyers, has now applied to have the cash moved to the association's account.

The case centres around the dumping of hundreds of tonnes of sulphur-contaminated toxic oil waste by a ship near Abidjan, the country's capital, in 2006.

The compensation money was deposited in an Ivorian bank to be handed out, directly, in cash, to each of the 30,000 victims, but the payments were frozen last month.

Martyn Day, the victims' laywer, described the individual who has applied for the money as a "shadowy figure" and said he was "extremely worried" about the development

"The Ivorians we know have been very scared to tell us who it is," he said.

Tags: greed

Nidal Hasan Terrorist Threat 'Not That Big a Deal'....Matthew Yglesias

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:58:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I think a pretty good case can be made that this kind of situation actually is the main face of the terrorist threat. Not a big well-thought-out plot centrally directed from a “safe haven” in South Asia and undertaken by brilliant covert operatives, but the desperate violent act of a clearly disturbed individual. It’s going to be very hard to prevent this sort of thing. As long as the United States remains a country in which firearms are widely available"for the foreseeable future, in other words"we’re going to be unusually vulnerable to mentally ill spree killers of various kinds, including spree killers who nod in the direction of Islamist thinking.

But the larger point is that while these incidents are serious crimes and major tragedies for the victims, they hardly rise to the level of a major macro-level social crisis. They’re certainly not a first-order national security threat. And even put in the lower-stakes context of violent crime in America

Clip Source: americanpowerblog.blogspot.com

Thirteen people were killed and 29 wounded during Nidal Malik Hasan's jihadi rampage at Fort Hood. President Obama spoke today, and the PowerPoint transcripts of Hasan's Army doctors' lecture have been made available. Of course, I've been covering the story extensively. I've noted the remarks of a number of extremely pernicious leftist commentators, but Matthew Yglesias' post

today - coming at the same time as this new information paints a damning indictment of Hasan's propensity to fanatical violence - really takes the cake for willing blindness, even complicity, on the radical leftist:

Of course, it's not like Yglesias is sympathetic to Islam:

Tags: democratic party, islam, radical left, terrorism, war on terror

Wash U Shuts Down Freedom Memorial on 20 Year Anniversary of End of Communism- It Was Too Offensive Video

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:45:36 GMT

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clipper's remarks: “We’re hoping to elevate the thinking of students about the connection between socialism, tyranny, and murder. Too often, we tend to think about state control in the abstract. This event is an opportunity to show the student body what socialism really is,” said junior Dirk Doebler, student leader of Young Americans for Liberty and lead organizer of the event. “We’re just twenty years away from the collapse of the Soviet Union’s despotic enslavement of hundreds of millions of people, yet everyone seems to forget that socialism killed over 150,000,000 people in the 20th century. All that gets lost in the convenient narrative our professors would have us believe. With this event, we’re striking down false notions. We’re speaking truth to power.”

This event aims at showing the horrors of the implementation of that idea.

** There is more video to come of the university shutting down the gulag.

Clip Source: gatewaypundit.firstthings.com

Jim Hoft

The gulag was too offensive.

(Twitpics)
The students of Young Americans for Liberty hosted a rally to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall at noon today on the lawn outside the Ann W. Olin Women’s Building at Washington University.

The students set up a gulag complete with prisoners, guards and barb wire on the Wash U campus.

Students constructed a memorial to the victims of socialism as a stark reminder of the horrors of socialism, and of its victims.

[Video]

YAL leader John Burns reported on the event today.
The university shut it down… It was too offensive.

Young Americans for Liberty is a growing student group at Washington University in St. Louis. YAL agrees with Nobel Laureate in economics Frederick Hayek, that socialism leads to totalitarianism. Socialism is a faulty idea that kills.

UPDATE: ACORN pimp-daddy James O’Keefe was in town and stopped by the protest. Darin from Reboot Congress interviewed James here.

Tags: 150 million people killed-20th century, collapse of the soviet union, freedom memorial, video (2:12), washington u-st louis, young americans for liberty

Code Pink target and taunt children of military families

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:31:41 GMT

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clipper's remarks: They really are a disgrace

Clip Source: www.moonbattery.com

Just because they got their guy into the White House is no reason for Code Pink kooks to stop indulging in deplorable behavior.

Dressed as 'zombie soldiers' killed in combat, 'ghosts of war victims,' witches and healthcare fairies, members of Code Pink menacingly paraded in front of a captive audience of children one block from the White House, who waited along the sidewalk in front of Decatur House just off Lafayette Park for a Halloween party hosted by President Obama.

Last Saturday, the President hosted several hundred military families for trick or treating. Also invited were children of White House staff and about 2000 children from eleven D.C. area elementary schools.

Even al-Reuters was appalled. Check out their caption to the photo below:

Members of the protest group Code Pink taunt local school children with chants about the war in Afghanistan as the children and their families arrive for a Halloween reception by U.S. President Barack Obama

Tags: code pink stinks, obama supporters, child abuse

Ft.Hood Remembers the Fallen !

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:18:18 GMT

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clipper's remarks: President Obama spoke at Ft. Hood TX. at memorial service for the fallen solders masacured by a fellow officer.

Clip Source: my.yahoo.com

Watch live: Fort Hood memorial service

Thousands gather in Texas to mourn the victims of last week's deadly rampage. » President speaking now

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Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:44:02 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Free-Credit-Reports.com is designed to raise awareness among consumers about the crime of identity theft. Armed with this knowledge, you can avoid the trap or fight it should you fall as one of its victims. A wide array of choices from reputable identity theft protection companies are offered below. Choose only the best service you need with a reasonable price.

Clip Source: www.free-credit-reports.com

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Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:51:56 GMT

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clipper's remarks: john allen muhammad execution

Clip Source: glamde.info

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