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December 26, 2017 – 12:52 pm | No Comment

This Week 7’s (12.14 – 12.31) Affirmation: Mindfulness – I will reach for mindfulness each day.
Date – 12.26.17
B-Book 44: Do the Work by Steven Pressfield
The key message in this book: Often we stop dead in our tracks …

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First category I added when I started this blog many moons ago. I jot stuff here I can't otherwise categorize.

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Egyptian court rules against virginity tests

December 28, 2011 – 3:13 am | No Comment
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Source: CNN
My Comments:
The fact that a court in this day and age had to make such a ruling is troubling…you have got to be kidding me.  Again, …

Saudi woman beheaded for ‘witchcraft and sorcery’

December 13, 2011 – 11:16 pm | No Comment
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A woman was beheaded in Saudi Arabia for practicing witchcraft and sorcery, the kingdom’s Interior Ministry said, prompting Amnesty International to call for a halt in executions there.
Amina bint Abdel Halim Nassar was executed Monday …

Thousands of veterans living on the streets

October 30, 2011 – 9:39 am | No Comment
Chicago Looks To Restrict Panhandlers

They served their country, and now they’re being left out in the cold.Soldiers who have returned from battlegrounds in Iraq and Afghanistan are twice as likely to be living on the streets than other Americans, …

You are Making Her Fat (What the…?)

October 11, 2011 – 10:21 am | No Comment
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We know you mean well when you tell a fat friend or family member to stay away from the Oreos and Fritos, but new Yale University research suggests that the advice could backfire and lead …

Retirement Heist': How Firms Trimmed Pensions

September 29, 2011 – 8:38 pm | No Comment
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As companies have been moving away from traditional pension plans, they have been shifting employees to new retirement plans, such as 401(k)s, that transfer the cost — and the risk — to workers.
Companies have claimed …

How the U.S. and the world can help Iraq

September 1, 2011 – 9:23 am | No Comment
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As the Arab Spring drives change across our region, bringing the hope of democracy and reform to millions of Arabs, less attention is being paid to the plight of Iraq and its people. We were …

Child Brides…Really?

August 4, 2011 – 12:07 pm | No Comment
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I do understand that traditions play an important part in the lives of all cultures sharing this planet we call Earth; very few things , however, boils my blood…nay pisses me off than the abuse …

Somalia Famine Finally Captures the News Cycle

August 3, 2011 – 10:40 pm | No Comment
HoA Humanitarian Snapshot 29 July 2011

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Today’s New York Times devotes two-thirds of its front page above the fold to a horrific picture in color of a malnourished Somali child in a Mogadishu hospital. It caps a detailed and …

Somalis Flee Drought

July 18, 2011 – 8:52 pm | No Comment
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DADAAB, Kenya — The people start trudging in at dawn, more than a thousand every day, exhausted, sick and starving, materializing out of the thin desert air to take their places at the gates of …

No Bones About It: This Is a Dog House

August 12, 2009 – 9:01 am | No Comment

Paris Hilton’s Chihuahuas – Tinkerbell, Marilyn Monroe, Prince Baby Bear, Harajuki, Dolce, and Prad…

The Enemies Within

April 18, 2009 – 7:41 am | No Comment
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By CHARLES M. BLOW
Published: April 17, 2009

The United States Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis issued a report last week suggesting that current political and economic conditions are energizing right-wing extremist groups, …

Why the Heck do we Still Need a Voting Rights Act?!!

August 6, 2006 – 3:18 pm | No Comment

During a recent daily read of the WST, I was drawn to topic – “Bush Signs Voting Right Act Extension”; the subhead read – Voting Rights signed into law for another 25 year.
Not being familiar …

Welcome to 2006 in Dirty TVQ

January 1, 2006 – 9:48 pm | No Comment

Okay, so I have to rewrite this freaking post to my blog just because this piece of remote posting software that I installed decided to dump my earlier post.  That really chaps my hide.
too bad …

Let's Rob the Bank – Name a Commission and Get the Hell Out

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Day 3 of 3….aaaaahhhh

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The Dumbest Shit I have heard in Years!

January 15, 2004 – 9:05 am | No Comment

Is it just me or are we just one damn stupid and arrogant country? Woke up this morning to the news that the president is thinking about spending billions to put man back on …

Damn Subordinates!

January 3, 2004 – 7:30 am | No Comment

Just got in from a 14 hour day. Pretty intense. Had an overall good day, but one big negative. Crap! that really tweaks my annoyance meter some. I am not one …