4.2! Lowest infant mortality ever in Cuba As an expression of the Revolution’s commitment to the health of mothers and children, in 2013 Cuba reached the lowest rate of infant mortality in its history, 4.2 per thousand live births, placing us among the top nations with low averages. This rate ref[...]
Archive for June, 2014
June 13th, 2014 - 8:45 am § in Misc.
John McCain, War Hawk
Asked by the Guardian what the US should do about the civil war in Iraq, John McCain said: “The president should get rid of his entire national security team, including the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and bring the team in who won the conflict in Iraq in to turn this situation around[...]
June 13th, 2014 - 3:22 am § in Politics
Invasion of the Children
immigrant children are being held in temporary U.S. holding pens. The U.S. border patrol says its forces are overwhelmed, and the courts are bracing for a flood of immigration cases from children held in temporary detention facilities designed to handle a fraction of the numbers. Sanitati[...]
June 12th, 2014 - 4:18 am § in Misc.
JUNE WEDDINGS …
As wedding month begins and my 50th anniversary is this Saturday, I wonder where traditions are going? Man-wife seems so outré! After Americans in four geographically diverse states voted for equality (against an anti-gay amendment in the case of Minnesota), and as voters in a fifth state (Iowa[...]
June 11th, 2014 - 4:58 pm § in Hypocrisy
Gupta Wants Med Pot Legal
Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent, says that marijuana medicine should be freely prescribed and people should be allowed to apply for a card at NuggMD if they wish to. CNN’s chief medical correspondent called for full-scale federal legalization of medical marijuana in n[...]
June 11th, 2014 - 12:10 pm § in Uncategorized
BREAKING NEWS: Why Cantor lost and what it means for WASTATE,
Plausible reason Cantor lost: 1. His (tentative) support for immigration reform. 2. His position as the GOPs show Jew, the only Jew in an otherwise 100% solidly Christian party (if we include Muslims Mormons) in Congress, made him a target. 3. Folks in Virginia felt that Cantor was a showboat, n[...]
June 11th, 2014 - 10:44 am § in Israel/Palestine, Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: Israel selects radical supporter of greater Israel as President
Israel’s parliament has elected Reuven Rivlin, to replace Shimon Peres, a Nobel Laureate devoted to peace. M.r Rivlin unabashedly opposes it. Rivlin is a firm backer of the illegal Israeli settlement drive on the West Bank, and has argued that Israel should grant citizenship to the Palest[...]
June 11th, 2014 - 9:51 am § in Uncategorized
FOX NEWS: Is Iran A State Run Version of Faux?
Exiled Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad got under the skin of the Islamic Republic with “My Stealthy Freedom,” a Facebook campaign encouraging women in Iran to post photographs of themselves not wearing the compulsory headscarves. The page has attracted some 482,000 “likes” and commanded c[...]
June 11th, 2014 - 4:08 am § in Schools & Colleges
Can Seattle be Competitive?
In an era of constricting NIH funds, in state that has never been generous to its research universities, in a county where billionaires abound but show little interest in local philanthropy, in a city with a shrinking biotech industry .. can Seattle survive as a big time biology center? Read about o[...]