‘Banquet ban’ for China military .[...]
Archive for January, 2012
January 24th, 2012 - 12:32 am § in Misc.
Elaborate banquets are off the menu for China’s top military officials, as part of a bid to curb extravagance, state media reports
January 24th, 2012 - 12:31 am § in Hypocrisy
Mitt TITHES MORE than Mitt TAXES!
A couple of days ago, I speculated that Mitt Romney might pay more in his Mormon Church tax, called “tithing,” than he does in tax to the US government. I was right! MITT TITHES MORE THAN HE PAYS IN TAXES!!! My estimates were right on, except that I grossly underestimated Mitt’[...]
January 23rd, 2012 - 10:03 pm § in Uncategorized
Paternalism in the Hippocratic Oath
Jules van Schaijik of the Personalist Project writes about the Hippocratic Oath (excerpted) “Toward a Reconstruction of Medical Morality”, by Edmund D. Pellegrino, provides a good example. The Hippocratic ethic, Pellegrino thinks, is paternalistic to a degree that is simply no longer acceptabl[...]
January 23rd, 2012 - 9:42 pm § in Misc.
Ave Challenge: UW Trivia
What items were placed in the cornerstone which was removed from the Old Territorial University and placed in Denny Hall? Answer[...]
IRB Extremism
Institutional Review Boards Overstepping Their Roles … from Gwendolyn Bradley The AAUP recently submitted comments to the Department of Health and Human Services in response to proposed new rule making on institutional review boards, the campus bodies that oversee research on human subjects[...]
January 22nd, 2012 - 11:27 am § in Misc.
ROMNEY May Have a TAX/TITHE Problem.
A simple calculations suggests that Mitt Romney may have a huge PR problem … He has already told us that he pays less than 15% federal tax. Presumably that is on Romney’s NET TAXABLE income. So here is the problem: ROMNEY IS A MORMON DOES MITT TITHE MORE THAN HE [...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Saudi Schools Teach Kill Jews and Gays
text from current Saudi textbooks, FOX NEWS: “The hour (of judgment) will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them. … There is a Jew behind me come and kill him.” Asked by Fox News about the textbooks, Prince Faisal Bin Abdullah Al-Saud, the Saudi minister responsible for th[...]
January 21st, 2012 - 5:50 pm § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: Newt, Ltd. Tromps Romney, Inc.
South Carolina Last Updated at 4:48 PM ET Republican Results 70 of 2,136 Precincts Reporting Newt Gingrich 37% 7,508 17 ★ Mitt Romney 33% 6,756 0 Rick Santorum 15% 3,073 0 Ron Paul 11% 2,147 0 Rick Perry 2% 444 0 Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/primary-election-results-2012/state.shtml?state=SC#[...]
January 21st, 2012 - 12:25 pm § in Misc.
APPLE: More rumors about “Goldfinger”
Another very strange bit of evidence about Apple’s project Goldfinger has emerged from videos coming out at North Korea mourns its Dear Departed Leader. In going through this video on a frame editor, my contact came across this single older frame that seems to suggest Koreans were also mournin[...]
January 21st, 2012 - 10:49 am § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: Gingrich leading polls in South Carolina.
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