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[Free Canuckistan!] Steynian 406nd « Free Canuckistan!: The guy who's been tapped to head Rights and Democracy has broken one of the biggest taboos in Canada: He has criticized the unfettered immigration of Muslims .effects of religion it has rejected the natural, self-replenishing diversity that is the root of its own vitality, in favour of an artificial, stifling “diversity” that can only degenerate into a culture of compulsion and despair.

[SpeakEasy] Baby Isaiah: Does Futile Care Hurt More Than It Helps? « SpeakEasy: When speaking with Rebecca May, she made it very clear that they hoped to be able to bring Isaiah home and care for him. She understood that Isaiah may not survive very long and if he survived, that he may be profoundly disabled, but she was willing to care for him and love him, no matter what happened.

[What Adrienne Thinks About That] What Adrienne Thinks About That: The Adoration of Jenna Fox: A Co ...: People will go really freaking far to save someone they love, and that's why all this science Pearson gets into and that we as a society are mulling over right now (cloning, stem cell, genetic modification, immunizations, antibiotics) can be so dangerous. I mean, when my husband was sick, someone asked me if I felt badly about how many animals died and were mistreated in the research that developed the drugs that were extending Brian's life, and on an intellectual level I can get into all the things that are wrong with animal research, but, still, I was like, "Are you KIDDING ME?

[Tiger Woods Syndrome] Tiger Woods Syndrome, Read the Signs before the affair turns into ...: But first we need to face up to a five-stage pattern that leads to the fateful day when we realize that our relationship is nothing but a sham. The toxic pattern starts with artificial intimacy, where physical attraction, charm and “love at first sight” trumps true compatibility, and quickly morphs into the other stages that are all built on lies, deception, and a dishonest account of one’s true feelings, needs, and relationship goals.

[The Stone Report] Oscar and the Art Of Performance-Capture (2) - The Stone Report: says Niccol, who wrote and produced the film about a beleaguered director (Al Pacino) who decides to forget about human performers and work with a computer program, dubbed Simone, an artificial movie star who looks so real that the public is taken in. Simone becomes a huge celebrity, the problem being that the director can't produce her in person for all the talk shows and magazine interviews.

[Law Firm Web Strategy] Blawg Review #252 - Law Firm Web Strategy: Its premise is simple, though, as much for its insight as its truth: “The biggest problem with conflict in our organisations”¦is not that there is too much of it but rather that there is too little. We spend massive amounts of energy avoiding situations until they can no longer be ignored.  We then have to deal with the conflict once it has become a crisis.”

[Opposing Views - Issues, Experts, Answers] Opposing Views: Will Gay Marriage Lead to Real Life Stepford Wives?: In my book Outrage: How Gay Activists and Liberal Judges Are Trashing Democracy to Redefine Marriage, I noted news stories about an Indian girl who was married to a dog, a French woman .Now this week, the Washington Times ran an article that began, “Humans will be marrying robots within fifty years, according to David Levy, winner of the 2009 Loebner Prize for artificial intelligence.

[Bike Rumor] Bikerumor | All The Best Cycling News, Tech, Rumors and Reviews!: On mornings when I’m feeling particularly industrious or the kids don’t have school, I’ll make a fruit topping (see above…mixed berries boiled down to create a fruit topping.  Phone cam makes it look much less delicious than it really is!) to replace or reduce the syrup.  Eliminating the sugar from the mix and the full calorie syrup cut more than 200 calories from breakfast alone.  For the typical benchmark 2,000 calorie diet, that’s 10% right from the start.

[BBC Blog Network] BBC - The Editors: Euthanasia debate: Legalised euthanasia for mentally competent adults worries me mainly in terms of the 'slippery slope'. I am old enough to remember the Abortion Act when the electorate was assured that it would not be 'abortion on demand' which in practice it is now.

[Nature Network Blog Posts] NPR Science Friday and Science Journalism - Michael Nestor's blog ...: We create networks of like minded people who self-police”¦the eventual end to this slippery slope is the stamping out of dissent. Dissent is the core of the peer review process and the support structure for the scientific method. .... stylized ritual - this corresponds, to me, to the stylized threat displays of certain animals that substitute for actual physical combat - or even to the view that the highly artificial environment of team sports substitutes for warfare. ...

[Hot Air » Top Picks] Hot Air » Blog Archive » Indefinite detention law a bad idea: There are two main problems with pursuing an indefinite-detention law.  First, any exception carved out of those Constitutional rights will only serve as a precedent for further exceptions.  This is truly a slippery slope.  Right now, the lawmakers say that the exception will only apply to al-Qaeda terrorists, but what about child molesters?  There has been an ongoing debate for many years over the lack of rehabilitation of serial molesters.  When they have served their prison time, they get released — but some communities have petitioned for indefinite detention of molesters beyond their sentence.

[OB Rag Blog] The Richest 1% Have Captured America's Wealth ”” What's It Going to ...: Pull out a Monopoly game board and recognize that the rules of the game are written to assure that someone will monopolize the wealth of the society, while the rest of us are bankrupted and cast out of the game. The Supreme Court just changed the rules of US Monopoly stating that once you gain a powerful corporate status you can buy the politicians and lawmakers and change the RULES (Federal laws) of the game to benefit the powerful and marginalize the majority of working people.

[WORLDmag.com | Community] WORLDmag.com | Community | Blog Archive | Kentucky Senate passes ...: However, if you use the usual genocidal linguistics of pro-Deaths and attempt to refrain from answering the question by saying that a child in the womb is not a child or that the very plain question is ‘meaningless’, etc., you have then equivalently answered the question with an unqualified ‘Yes.’

[Change.org's Gay Rights Blog] A Place for Gay People in Conservative Politics? | Gay Rights ...: in fact, both Sullivan and Gallagher subsequently excoriated Herbert for his support of hate crime legislation, with Sullivan calling such laws an "appalling" attack on individual freedom.  But there was also a streak in his speech that even Gallagher could appreciate; Herbert commented that "the best parental arrangements are represented by a father and a mother," despite his stated support of gay adoption.  After a Cato intern questioned him on this statement, Herbert stood by it, chalking it up to his underlying social conservatism.  It was troubling for me to watch the man who had so eloquently defended gay rights regardless of political ideology, as he essentially admitted his inferiority as a parent due to nothing more than sexual orientation.

[Vishy's Blog] Book Review No.3 - The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath « Vishy's Blog: This seemed a dreary and wasted life for a girl with fifteen years of straight A’s, but I knew that’s what marriage was like, because cook and clean and wash was just what Buddy Willard’s mother did from morning till night, and she was the wife of a university professor and had been a private school teacher herself.

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