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BostonHerald.com - International: Iraqi president says Democrats told him they will not pull out quickly BAGHDAD, Iraq - President Jalal Talabani said Thursday that he had been assured by Democrat congressional leaders during a recent visit to Washington that they had no plans for a quick withdrawal of U.S. forces. Talabani, a Kurd whose post is ceremonial, said Democrats also backed the idea of placing U.S. troops in bases while putting Iraqis in charge of security in and around cities. “They all told me that they want the success of Iraq’s democratically elected government and continued support for the Iraqi people to defeat terrorism,” Talabani said about his trip to the United States in late September as many were predicting the Democratic congressional triumph in Tuesday’s midterm elections. “One of them (a Democrat leader) told me that any early withdrawal will be a catastrophe for the United States and the world,” Talabani, speaking from his northern hometown of Sulaimaniyah, to...

BostonHerald.com - International: Iraqi president says Democrats told him they will not pull out quickly B AGHDAD, Iraq - President Jalal Talabani said Thursday that he had been assured by Democrat congressional leaders during a recent visit to Washington that they had no plans for a quick withdrawal of U.S. forces. Talabani, a Kurd whose post is ceremonial, said Democrats also backed the idea of placing U.S. troops in bases while putting Iraqis in charge of security in and around cities. “They all told me that they want the success of Iraq’s democratically elected government and continued support for the Iraqi people to defeat terrorism,” Talabani said about his trip to the United States in late September as many were predicting the Democratic congressional triumph in Tuesday’s midterm elections. “One of them (a Democrat leader) told me that any early withdrawal will be a catastrophe for the United States and the world,” Talabani, speaking from his northern hometown of...

Beheaded girls were Ramadan 'trophies' | The World | The Australian : "THREE Christian high school girls were beheaded as a Ramadan 'trophy' by Indonesian militants who conceived the idea after a visit to Philippines jihadists, a court heard yesterday. The girls' severed heads were dumped in plastic bags in their village in Indonesia's strife-torn Central Sulawesi province, along with a handwritten note threatening more such attacks. The note read: 'Wanted: 100 more Christian heads, teenaged or adult, male or female; blood shall be answered with blood, soul with soul, head with head.' Javanese trader Hasanuddin appeared in Jakarta Central Court yesterday charged with planning and directing the murders in October last year. He faces a death sentence if found guilty under anti-terrorism legislation. Hasanuddin allegedly returned from a visit to members of Philippines Islamist group the Moro Islamic Liberation Front with tales of how that organisation...

Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist Magazine : "How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic Below is a complete listing of the articles in 'How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic,' a series by Coby Beck containing responses to the most common skeptical arguments on global warming. There are four separate taxonomies; arguments are divided by: * Stages of Denial, * Scientific Topics, * Types of Argument, and * Levels of Sophistication." I have to admit to being a bit of a skeptic myself. I couldn't help but be impressed with such a well organized web page. I'll read a little bit more, but my impression was that we are in the middle of a warm bump during a continuing ice age, which has had a few warm bumps.

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Did you notice the avalanche of stories on computer voting, and fraud, and questions, and doubts, and so on, in the days before the elections. That was the media's way of preparing the way for another "the election was stolen" scam like they tried in 2000 and 2004. But since the Dems won, notice how this election was perfect now. The machines all worked perfectly. I haven't heard a word about exit polls. But mark my words, if the Dems had lost, that's all we would have heard about. Our country is lost, in so many ways. We are destroying the freedom our forefathers fought for, and replacing it with the 50th incarnation of marxism's failed experiment. At least Marx was a westerner, and shared some of our values. The future will be the marxists and the muslims picking at the bones of the American carcass. It won't be pretty. Our civilization is dead. Can't wait for the government issued ID cards and cameras on every block.

Just thought this was interesting. The Republicans didn't cut spending, but at least they fought back against the Muslims. Now we will just lay there like a dead dog and let them attack us over and over again while the lefty media trys to convince us it's all an illusion. Just like Thailand. they had a leader who fought the Muslims. Then he was deposed in a coup. The new leader kissed the Muslims ass with a big apology. The Muslims continued suicide bombing the very next day.

Get Rich Slowly Getting Things Done: How to Take Control of Life : "Taking control of your finances is easier when the rest of your life is in order. If your mind is swamped with worries about work, or home improvement projects, or obligations to friends and family, personal finance can become a low priority. You have other Stuff to worry about. David Allen’s Getting Things Done provides a system for tackling all of the Stuff in your life. I’ve avoided mentioning Getting Things Done before today. But I’m currently writing a couple of articles that will make more sense if you’re familiar the concept, so an introduction is in order. Introduction Getting Things Done (GTD) is about productivity. Its aim is to help you do more while feeling less stressed. Rather than explain the system — other sites have done so already — I want to share how I implemented it in my own life. Since I didn’t follow things to the letter, and since many of you are probably unfamiliar with GTD, I’ll begin w...

Firefly Forest: Woods Shock Can Kill : "Woods Shock Can Kill A psychology lesson that could save your life WHEN STEVE DUNN STUMBLED ACROSS THE FUSELAGE of a bush plane sunk into the muck in the labyrinthine delta of Upper Russian Lake, the unease he had felt since becoming lost in the Alaskan wilderness turned to terror. 'I'm going to die up here.' he remembers thinking. Alone and cold. Dunn was catapulting into the third and most dangerous stage of the phenomenon psychologists call 'woods shock,' the confusion and fear that humans feel when they become lost. As an experienced outdoorsman, he knew that the wisest action was to shelter in the plane wreckage and signal for rescue, or at least rest awhile and gather his wits, But being lost caused so much stress on Dunn's nervous system that he was not able to think logically. Woods shock is a very real condition, and it happens often in survival situations. Understanding it can help you live. Otherwise, it ca...

Firefly Forest: Woods Shock Can Kill : "Woods Shock Can Kill A psychology lesson that could save your life WHEN STEVE DUNN STUMBLED ACROSS THE FUSELAGE of a bush plane sunk into the muck in the labyrinthine delta of Upper Russian Lake, the unease he had felt since becoming lost in the Alaskan wilderness turned to terror. 'I'm going to die up here.' he remembers thinking. Alone and cold. Dunn was catapulting into the third and most dangerous stage of the phenomenon psychologists call 'woods shock,' the confusion and fear that humans feel when they become lost. As an experienced outdoorsman, he knew that the wisest action was to shelter in the plane wreckage and signal for rescue, or at least rest awhile and gather his wits, But being lost caused so much stress on Dunn's nervous system that he was not able to think logically. Woods shock is a very real condition, and it happens often in survival situations. Understanding it can help you live. Otherwise, it ca...

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LiveScience.com - Why We Have Sex: It's Cleansing Natural cleansing The new work could help test a hypothesis first proposed nearly 20 years ago, stating that sex evolved as a way to purge harmful mutations from a population. According to this view, the random shuffling of genes through sex will sometimes have the effect of concentrating many harmful mutations into single individuals. These individuals will be less healthy than their peers, and therefore more likely to be weeded out by natural selection, the thinking goes. This hypothesis, called the "mutational deterministic hypothesis," is controversial though, because it assumes that single mutations by themselves are only slightly harmful, while a combination of many mutations together is much more damaging. Scientists call this phenomenon "negative epistasis." If negative epistasis were true, it would provide a powerful explanation for why sex has managed to persist for so long despite its numerous costs. B...

Child abuse: nature or nurture? - life - 02 November 2006 - New Scientist : "Monkeys that are abused as infants develop a specific brain change that makes them more likely to mistreat their own offspring, a new study shows. The findings may help explain why child abuse in humans often perpetuates from one generation to the next, the researchers say. Dario Maestripieri at the University of Chicago in Illinois, US, and colleagues found that baby rhesus monkeys that endured high rates of maternal rejection and mild abuse in their first month of life produced less of the brain chemical serotonin. Low levels of serotonin are associated with anxiety and depression and impulsive aggression in both humans and monkeys. The team followed a group of newborn rhesus monkeys with mothers that abused and rejected them. They also studied eight newborn monkeys taken from their birth mothers and placed with abusive ones instead. Passed down Analysis of the monkeys’ brain fluid revealed that those r...

They’d rather die: brief lives of the Afghan slave wives - Sunday Times - Times Online : "Five years after the Taliban were ousted from Kabul, the number of Afghan women setting fire to themselves because they cannot bear their lives has risen dramatically. Gul Zam’s husband and in-laws watched her burning and did nothing. She was saved by a neighbour who poured a bucket of water over her, wrapped her in a sheet and rushed her to hospital. After the doctors removed the sheet, tearing the blisters, she spent 10 days in a coma. Her head had been fused to her chest by the burns. She has endured several operations and will need at least six more before she can move her arms. “This is a society where being born a woman is not a gift,” said Alberto Cairo, an Italian doctor who runs the Red Cross clinic in Kabul where Gul Zam is being treated. His room is full of fairy lights and a laughing Christmas tree that he has kept up all year because “there didn’t seem to be much happiness”. A re...

BREITBART.COM - Japanese researchers find dolphin with 'remains of legs' : TOKYO (AP) - Japanese researchers said Sunday a bottlenose dolphin captured last month has an extra set of fins that could be the remains of back legs, providing further evidence ocean-dwelling mammals once lived on land. Fishermen captured the four-finned dolphin off the coast of Wakayama prefecture in western Japan on Oct. 28 and alerted the nearby Taiji Whaling Museum, said museum director Katsuki Hayashi. Fossil remains show dolphins and whales were four-footed land animals about 50 million years ago and share the same common ancestor as hippos and deer. Scientists believe they later transitioned to an aquatic lifestyle and their hind limbs disappeared. Though odd-shaped protrusions have been found near the tails of dolphins and whales captured in the past, researchers thought it was the first time one had been found with well-developed, symmetrical fins, Hayashi said. 'I believe the fins may be ...