I just wonder how many are being brainwashed at this very moment. Probably many more than we kill in a day in Iraq. Now they have women and probably the blue eyed ones they have always boasted about.
Also, the Gaza story is despicable. I still cannot believe Israel gave them more land. The story is not over there!
The Gaza story reinforces my apprehension about why the strip was handed back to the Palestinians. Rather than living in peace with their neighbor state, they choose barbaric acts of terror. You're right - it is disgusting. We worry about our children seeing violence on TV - those children are hardened to it from very early in life. It certainly readies them to commit acts of terrorism against others later in their lives.
Snip: As consumption of healthy fruits and vegetables rises in Canada, the number of cases of food-borne illness linked from produce has also increased, partly because microbes can't always be washed away.
In Ontario, more than 500 people were stricken recently with salmonella poisoning after eating contaminated bean sprouts. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency reports 15 outbreaks of illness due to contaminated produce between 1991 and 2000.
Public health officials try to find a balance between touting the benefits of eating fresh produce and alerting people to its potential harms. Strawberries, green onions and pre-washed salad mixes have been implicated in recent North American outbreaks of hepatitis A, E. coli and salmonella.
The original source of contamination may be animal manure or human feces that are introduced in the field either in Canada or abroad, wash tanks, at the grocery store or in the kitchen. Washing produce with running water helps, but some pathogens can be absorbed into the cells.
Nashville firm makes "Made in Mexico" border patrol uniforms
Snip: “All the profits they’re realizing from outsourcing are going into the CEOs’ pockets,” he said.
C-Diff is what the Dr's finally decided I had back in August.
That and facial cellulitis. Still recovering from that. Very nasty stuff. I have an auto-immune disease, so that really complicated things. This is the first time I've seen the C-Diff discussed on the net. Until now, I was wondering if the Dr's just made it up. You just renewed my faith in them.
"There is an intestinal bug going around here in Texas. Many reports of sick people."
3/4 of our extended family came down with it this weekend. It came on so fast that everyone thought it was food poisoning, but they soon realized they hadn't eaten the same things.
Snip: HAWAII VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK, Hawaii — About 44 acres of coastline collapsed into the ocean this week, setting loose a glowing stream of lava that shot out from the newly exposed cliffside 45 feet above the water. The plume, 6 feet in diameter, sent up a tower of steam as it hit the water and began forming a ramp of new land. The collapse of solidified lava shelf and sea cliff Monday was the largest since Kilauea Volcano began its current eruption in 1983.
SNIP: On Nov. 4, the parents of a teenager killed in January 2004 sued the Austin police department. Humberto Garcia claimed that his daughter, Jenny Garcia Hayden, might be alive if police had reported her killer to immigration authorities after his illegal status was purportedly discovered during an unrelated investigation before the murder.
Austin officials deny any wrongdoing. They say their policy, based on a 1997 city resolution, is aimed merely at ensuring that city employees do not discriminate against illegal immigrants.
My question: Why aren't Austin officials enforcing immigration laws? Instead they uphold the purported "rights"of illegals over the rights guaranteed citizens under our constitution for our own citizens.
Muslim mob terrorizes 300 children in Indonesian Sunday school
Snip: Approximately 30 Christian children fled in panic after a mob of Islamic militants raided and vandalized their Sunday school class, which was being held in a private home last weekend in Curug, Indonesia, according to a Christian group called Voice of the Martyrs.
The violence came less than a month after three teenaged Christian schoolgirls were attacked and beheaded as they walked through a cocoa plantation on their way to school. One girl's severed head was reportedly placed in front of a church, eight miles from where the bodies were found, in what locals viewed as a stark warning to Christians.
VOM reported that in the most recent incident, the mob "terrorized" the children at the Curug Sunday school class and destroyed several desks and chairs, guitars, a keyboard, organ and fan in the classroom. Voice of the Martyrs is a Christian organization that documents persecution of believers.
Snip: The raid, which occurred in October after an extensive surveillance operation by both the Bosnian police and Western intelligence services, turned up an arsenal in the apartment, in the suburb of Ilidza, including suicide vests, up to 65 pounds of exploding bullets and high explosive, and a machine pistol. Investigators also found a video in which three men - at least two of them teenagers - are seen asking forgiveness from God for their "sacrifice," in a recording made just hours before the raid. The two teenagers were detained.
Hip Hop predicted liquor store trashings long ago
Snip: Proof that this is not a new issue can be found in numerous rap songs over the years. The early 1990s were full of racial tension between the black community and liquor stores. On Public Enemy's song "1 Million Bottle Bags," Chuck D proclaims, "They drink it thinkin' it's good/ But they don't sell the s*** in the white neighborhood!"
Earlier, in his now highly-famous song "Black Korea," Ice Cube hit L.A.'s Asian community with a mountain of racial slurs in rhyme form, closing with the now-prophetic line, "So pay respect to the black fist/Or we'll burn your store right down to a crisp."
Over 2,000 JMB suicide bombers ready to strike
Snip: Over 2000 members of Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) now remain scattered in different parts of the country who are ready to carry out suicide bomb attacks.
Highly placed sources told The Independent yesterday that hundreds of suicide bombers are at present staying in Dhaka and its adjoining districts, ready to strike any time. Different law enforcing agencies have prepared a list of 8,096 members belonging to the JMB. Of them more than 2000 are the members of JMB suicide squad.
Snip: Saudi state-run Channel One TV broadcasted the first episode of a new series aimed at dissuading young Saudis from following in the footsteps of many of their contemporaries to join the jihad (holy war) earlier this week. “Jihad Experiences, the Deceit” is a five part series which will tell the stories of several young Saudis who left to Iraq to fight alongside Abu Musab al Zarqawi.
Obscure AQ chemist worries experts
Snip: Al-Qaeda is "wedded to the spectacular," notes U.S. counterterrorism analyst Donald Van Duyn, and elusive Egyptian chemist Midhat Mursi was said to be exploring such possibilities when last seen, brewing up deadly compounds and gassing dogs in Afghanistan.
Van Duyn's FBI and other U.S. agencies are interested enough in Mursi to have posted a $5 million reward this year for his capture. Egypt's government reportedly is interested enough to have seized and locked up his two sons in an effort to track down the father.
The U.S. reward poster says the alleged bombmaker, also known as Abu Khabab, literally "Father of the Trotting Horse," may be in Pakistan. But "we don't think there's really a good fix on where he is," Van Duyn said in a Washington interview.
"Nobody knows," said Mohamed Salah, a Cairo expert on Islamic extremists. "He could be in any country, under another ID. Or he could be on the Afghan-Pakistani border, with Zawahri."
HIV-positive blood sold in China - 3 dead
Snip: BEIJING -- An HIV-positive man in northern China who sold his blood infected at least 18 others with the virus - including three who died - the government and state media said Saturday.
The man, identified only by his surname, Song, gave blood 15 times at a blood bank in Jilin province's Dehui city between January 2003 and June 2004, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
China Youth Daily newspaper said Saturday that Song, 41, was unemployed and relied on selling blood for his income. Blood buying is banned in China but continues to be a problem.
China admits organs of executed criminals sold to foreigners
Snip: CHINA broke its silence yesterday to admit for the first time that the organs of executed prisoners were sold to foreigners for transplant. For many years it has denied that such a trade existed. But Huang Jiefu, the Deputy Health Minister, acknowledged that the practice is widespread and promised to tighten the rules.