In The Days

Bill banning forced identity-chip implants clears House

John — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:39:45 +0000

HARRISBURG - Invasion of privacy is an issue that really gets under State Rep. Babette Josephs’ skin.

Amsterdam considering bank help for prostitutes

John — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:05:42 +0000

AMSTERDAM - Amsterdam city council is turning its attention to a pressing problem for one of the city’s key business sectors — banking and credit for prostitutes who can’t get accounts from mainstream institutions.

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Powell airs doubts on Obama agenda

John — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:01:44 +0000

Colin Powell, one of President Obama’s most prominent Republican supporters, expressed concern Friday that the president’s ambitious blitz of costly initiatives may be enlarging the size of government and the federal debt too much.

Perplexity

“…upon the earth distress•Strongs 4928: sunoche, soon-okh-ay´; from 4912; restraint, i.e. (figuratively) anxiety: — anguish, distress. of nations, with perplexity•Strongs 640: aporia, ap-or-ee´-a; from the same as 639; a (state of) quandary:—perplexity.
•Strongs 639: aporeo, ap-or-eh´-o; from a compound of 1 (as a negative particle) and the base of 4198; to have no way out, i.e. be at a loss (mentally):— (stand in) doubt, be perplexed….”
—Luke 21:25

“I’m concerned at the number of programs that are being presented, the bills associated with these programs and the additional government that will be needed to execute them,” Mr. Powell said in an excerpt of an interview with CNN’s John King, released by the network Friday morning.

Mr. Powell, a retired U.S. army general who rose to political prominence after a long and accomplished military career, said that health care reform and many of Mr. Obama’s other initiatives are “important” to Americans.

But, he said, “one of the cautions that has to be given to the president — and I’ve talked to some of his people about this — is that you can’t have so many things on the table that you can’t absorb it all.”

“And we can’t pay for it all,” said Mr. Powell, who was the first African-American to serve as secretary of state, under former President George W. Bush. He was also national security adviser to President Reagan, and was chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President George H.W. Bush from 1989 to 1993.

WHO warns swine flu ‘unstoppable’

John — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:54:22 +0000

The UN’s top health official has opened a forum in Mexico on combating swine flu by saying that the spread of the virus worldwide is now unstoppable.

Pestilences
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Endorsing Palestinian apartheid

John — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:00:07 +0000

Why does world accept notion of Palestinian state free of Jews?

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An insidious cultural campaign

John — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:53:52 +0000

The Dead Sea Scrolls, which are being exhibited this week at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), have survived time, weather, sand–and now the political storm caused by protests at their being toured by the Israel Museum, which houses the scrolls in Jerusalem.

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H. J. Res. 5: 111th Congress 2009-2010

John — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:36:56 +0000

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the twenty-second…

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Indian court decriminalizes consensual gay sex

John — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:43:22 +0000

NEW DELHI (AP) — A court ruled Thursday to decriminalize homosexuality in the Indian capital, a groundbreaking decision that could bring more freedom to gays in this deeply conservative country.

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‘We’re in the Middle of a Crash’: Black Swan

John — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:35:38 +0000

“We’re in the middle of a crash,” Taleb said. “So if I’m going to forecast something, it is that it’s going to get worse, not better.”

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Ant mega-colony takes over world

John — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:13:44 +0000

A single mega-colony of ants has colonised much of the world, scientists have discovered.

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