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POPSEPILEPSY: 'a great deformity', grounds for divorce. "The court further found that the husband was aware of his wife's condition, and the fact that she was treated for it, prior to the marriage, but since she demonstrated no symptoms, the seizure could be construed as a new medical condition. The court then relied on a halachic ruling, dating back several hundred years, deeming epilepsy a physical deformity that can be used as grounds for divorce." ... Ynet
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POPSTexans Protest Against NAFTA Hiway ...while another Texan in the White House pushes it on them, against their will! Then another Texan, whom republicans rejected, Ron Paul, fights for the Texas people.
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POPSWhy Congress Didn't Bring The Troops Home I think it would do us all a good service to try to understand why the Dems failed us in ending this horrible war, instead of finger pointing, name calling, and blaming. If we had a Republican Congress we'd be in war with Iran by now too. I think we should try to learn from this failure.
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POPSThings Didn't Happen In 2007 Everybody oohed and ahed over Google's new presentation offering, but then went right on using PowerPoint. Because that's what you use for presentations, everybody knows it. Google gets an 'A' for effort and for presenting alternatives, but as Microsoft is learning with Vista, the public seems rather reluctant to change the status quo. Unless it's for Apple products, that is.
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POPSAnother couple $100billion wasted... ...friggin' paranoid yet? I think it's a setup. More crap to fear? The Bushies are well on their way to starting another escalation and arms race for sure. Assholes. Do they think every country is gonna sit by and let us get away with world domination??? I think not.
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POPSThe 10 Biggest Religion Stories
#4 | The Pope and Latin Mass Benedict XVI relieves priests of having to get their bishop’s permission to celebrate mass in old-school Latin. To many, it is an unwelcome return of church élitism. Others sink happily back into it. #5 | The Slow-Motion Episcopal/Anglican Train Wreck The Episcopal Bishops’ meeting in New Orleans fails to stem the ongoing defection of conservatives over the church’s positions on gays, or the likelihood of a worldwide Anglican split over the same issue. #6 | Green Evangelicals Global warming, along with poverty and torture, have become hot issues to a maturing conservative Christian movement. #7 | The Roar of Atheist Books There may or may not be more atheists, but there are more atheist authors--and readers want to give them a hearing. #8 | Another Blow to a Megachurch A year after Ted Haggard resigned as pastor of Colorado’s New Life Church--having admitted to “immorality” involving a gay escort--a gunman kills two congregants in
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POPS The Top Most Influential US Liberals: 1-20 jim webb,george soros,arianna huffington,donna brazile,richard holbrooke,elizabeth edwards,joan blades and wes boyd (founders of moveon.org) round off the top twenty influential liberals in the U.S.
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POPSPope Tells Pharmacists To Make Moral decisions And what is next? Could there be an objection to filling an antidepressant or pain medication? If pharmacists want to do these sort of things then there should be a huge sign at the pharmacy stating that and people should be able to choose to patronize it or not.
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POPSInsiders view on IRAN War !!!
"This would result in a dramatic increase in attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq, attacks by proxy forces like Hezbollah, and an unknown reaction from the wobbly states of Afghanistan and Pakistan, where millions admire Iran's resistance to the Great Satan. "As disastrous as Iraq has been," says Mann, "an attack on Iran could engulf AmHe repeated his firm belief that the White House had to draw up a road map with real solutions to the division of Jerusalem and the problem of refugees, something with final borders. That was the only remedy to the crisis in the Middle East.erica in a war with the entire Muslim world." "When Mann and Leverett went public with the inside story behind the impending disaster with Iran, the White House dismissed them. Then it imposed prior restraint on them, an extraordinary episode of government censorship. Finally, it threatened them. "Now they are afraid of the White House, and watching what they say. But still, they feel they have to speak out."
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POPSNorth American Electricity Demand Continues To Outpace Resource Growth Where will the money for this multi-billion dollar investment come from? Electricity users, no doubt, who will also be burdened by the increasing price of fossil fuels. The smart thing to do is curb demand. Reduce the number of unessential electronic devices we use, turn off the broadband connection unless we are actively using it. Buy your own personal solar / wind generation systems, both to save outgoings and guarantee security of at least a basic electricity supply.
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POPSThe Lowest of the Low Every time I believe the right-wing nutters have reached their bottom when it comes to smear tactics, I find myself being shocked back into reality. Now we have Rush Limbaugh, Michellle Malkin, Mark Styne and Senator Mitch McConnell attacking a 12-year-old boy whose family made use of the schip program to help pay for the medical needs he and his sister incurred in a serious automobile accident. They accuse this child of lying for political reasons. This is the same kind of thing Limbaugh and his cronies did to Michael J. Fox when he campaigned for stem cell research, when Limbaugh claimed Mr. Fox was faking his symptoms in order to gain sympathy. Do these people have no feelings whatsoever? To smear a sick child for their own even sicker political purposes is beneath contempt.
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POPSGloble warming may make humidity worse Studies compared the projected effects of Natural conditions, and greenhouse gas separately. Models could not tally with records, and suggested either on it's own could not explain the rise. When the effects of global warming, and natural conditions were included in the same model, the results reflected actual readings. Models keep finding worse scenarios, and more details to include in models because they were not considered, until they were recognized by their effects. An example is the fact that the thaw of permafrost is compounded by the heat of greenhouse gas, but also the release of Carbon Dioxide that has been bound up for thousands of years, from the soil, and thawed organic matter. Like peat, while used for fuel can release great quantities of co2 when decomposing at temperatures rise way above freezing.
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POPSRepublicans acting like Republicans Conservatives, finding themselves in a morally dubious position, do what they do best. They slander the opposition. They lie, exaggerate, and mislead. Anything to keep the spotlight away from the issues which they are unable to defend. It seems they have no defense for greed, corruption, lack of empathy, and cold-heartedness. What a caricature they have become.
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POPSFounding Fathers Planned Religious Openness Jon Meacham commentary that founding fathers wanted no state religion; wanted freedom of religion. They refuted the "Old World" practice of state sponsored and dictated religion which caused so much bloodshed.
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POPSThe faces of children These are the faces of children. This reminds me of my own childhood and the carefree way of life, I {and most likely, you as well}, enjoyed. Remember those days?
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POPSSwiss federal president Calmy-Rey fights xenophobia in switzerland They spent over 15 million swiss francs for these accusable sheep-ads while money is missing at every end for the poor-ones in switzerland. The problem is: how to protect switzerland or other countries form social and other abuse while not forgetting the human scale of this problen. Don't forget your hearts and think always what would you REALLY do in a foreigners situation... but ok, abuse MUST be fought as well. And there is a structural abuse or lack in the swiss social system. Low effective quality-coachimg costs far too much and lowers effectveness of social financial efforts. Too many persons are living out of a poor person's finanial support.
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POPSDengue Fever surges in Latin America All that's needed, is a place, and a temperature that can allow the dengue fever carrying mosquitoes to breed in numbers. If Global temperatures rise they will spread further north.
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POPSAnother Insightful Perspective By Bill Maher Bill Maher creates an interesting analogy between Bush's manipulation of the Iraq war and Ken Lay's similar tactics at Enron. My clips do not do the piece justice, and I urge all of you to read the entire commentary.
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POPSWhiff of ancient oxygen turns back clock Oxygen was toxic to early life forms. The 'Great Oxidation Event' changed the environment so these organisms could not survive apart from some places where oxygen is excluded, like deep sea vents. This event gave the opportunity for a new strand of life to develop of which we are a part.
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POPSAxis of Evil: SOA School of the Americas/WHINSEC "SOA Watch is an independent organization that seeks to close the US Army School of the Americas, under whatever name it is called, through vigils and fasts, demonstrations and non-violent protest, as well as media and legislative work. The Pentagon has responded to the growing movement and Congress' near closure of the SOA with a PR campaign to give the SOA a new image. In an attempt to disassociate the school with its horrific past, the SOA was renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation in January of 2001."
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