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QUOTE(TheDybber @ Jul 25, 2005 -> 12:09 PM) I agree. But we can't help everyone, can we? I'm not saying we shouldn't have helped in Rwanda, but I'm sure, at this time, there are any number of places on Earth where there is some sort of human rights infringement...from women not being able to vote up to genocide? Where do we go next? Do we have the forces and money necessary to help everyone? And if not, where do we draw the line? With countries that have nothing but sand? And if so, how do we keep enough forces at home to protect us from terrorism at home? I'm sorry, but we can't help everyone around the world. At some point, other countries are going to have to help us out or the tortured countries are going to have to find a solution from within. I didn't mean to imply that we need to help every country with a human rights violation. But in matters of genocide, yeah, I think we do need to help. And I think we should use our power to press other countries into helping. No way, should we have to go it alone in stopping genocide, but I think if we set the example other countries would follow. I honestly and truly believe that. Secondly, instead of just sending soldiers to those places, there should be people like the Peace Corps there also. I have several friends from college that are all over the world (including Africa) that do agricultural education--how to properly use the land, how to rehabilitate the land, etc. I don't think it's all about war and force, but a lot of it should just be sharing our knowledge and technology in ways that can ameliorate lving conditions in places like that. Give 'em condoms, teach 'em to farm properly, raise animals, etc.

QUOTE(JUGGERNAUT @ Jul 25, 2005 -> 11:47 AM) I have went ... I expect you will proof-read & edit what you wrote the same as I have. On a message board mistakes are bound to happen. We don't get paid for these posts so you shouldn't expect people to have time to proof re-read them. I attended a public school .............. would be more appropriate But when you're talking about how ignorant and stupid someone is--I would say that making your argument correctly grammatically correct will add credence to your claim and not reveal your own ignorance.

QUOTE(JUGGERNAUT @ Jul 25, 2005 -> 11:40 AM) I guess your the product of public education People in glass houses. . . EDIT: This post is not meant to rip on Public schools. I have went to a Public school and turned out well-educated (imho), thank you very much.

QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ Jul 25, 2005 -> 11:03 AM) I don't know much about Niger, but I'm gonna guess it's an undeveloped country. People in undeveloped countries tend to have a lot of children because they're basically free labor. And I can't imagine it's that easy to get birth control over there either. . .

QUOTE(NUKE_CLEVELAND @ Jul 25, 2005 -> 01:08 AM) We are wealthy and powerful so all the worlds problems are our fault............didn't you get that memo? Did you read the article? It says in there that the UN is also at fault. But come on, we're the richest nation on earth and the last remaining super power; if we don't show compassion then we aren't being a good role model. Many here screamed and made fun of the French and Germans (and the Spanish when they pulled out of Iraq) for not coming to our aid after 9/11 in Iraq. Why is our turning our backs on thse African genocides ANY different from (if not far worse, in terms of the numbers killed) us not helping Rwanda, Sudan, Chechnya, etc? As my grandma always said: To whom much is given, much is expected.

Linkage Hundreds of Children Starving in Niger By NAFI DIOUF, Associated Press Writer Sun Jul 24,12:34 PM ET MARADI, Niger - Nasseiba Ali is the face of hunger in Niger. The 20-month-old girl weighs just 12 pounds, and her eyes are clouded at night, one of the symptoms of her chronic malnourishment, along with sparse, wiry hair, brittle and malformed nails, and a deceptively prominent belly. ADVERTISEMENT Nasseiba may survive because her grandmother was able to get her to a feeding center. But aid groups despair that so many other children — among the most vulnerable in times of crisis — are dying because the world was slow to respond. "I thought we would not make it safely," said Haoua Adamou, Nasseiba's grandmother, speaking in Hausa through an interpreter. Adamou had walked several hours from her village with the baby on her back to the emergency feeding center at Maradi, some 400 miles east of the capital, Niamey. She sat Saturday fanning flies from Nasseiba's face. The aid agency Oxfam warned last week that about 3.6 million people, about a third of them children, face starvation in this West African nation devastated by locusts and drought. The U.N.'s humanitarian agency estimates some 800,000 children under five are suffering from hunger, including 150,000 faced with severe malnutrition. The warnings have been coming for months. The United Nations first appealed for assistance in November and got almost no response. Another appeal for $16 million in March got about $1 million. The latest appeal on May 25 for $30 million has received about $10 million. Donations jumped dramatically in the last week because, U.N. humanitarian chief Jan Egeland said Friday, of increased media attention and TV images of starving children. Egeland estimated thousands of children are dying in Niger. Nasseiba dozed, at first fitfully, in the intensive care tent of the emergency center erected by Doctors Without Borders in Maradi, where 55 other chronically malnourished children were receiving care. Her mother, who is three months pregnant, and her father stayed behind to work their farm, hoping to coax something from the dry soil come the October harvest. Nasseiba tried several times to pull out the tiny feeding tube securely taped to her forehead and running down into her nose. She found sleep after several meager mouthfuls of enriched formula and what looked like a long, cold stare, sign of her troubled vision that leaves her blind at night. Just a few steps from the critically sick, another ward sheltered children who have almost recovered. Two-year-old Tsclaha has survived the critical 48 hours since her admission, when she weighed just 13.2 pounds. It will take her days to reach her target weight of 16 pounds before being declared fully cured. Tsclaha, barely able to stand on wobbly legs, happily munched a ready to eat, highly nutritious peanut butter mixture. Tsclaha wore a red bracelet, signaling doctors had decided to admit her. Nearby, 40 women carrying children waited anxiously for them to be weighed and for doctors to decide which ones would get red bracelets, which ones the orange or yellow bracelets that meant that, though considered malnourished, they were well enough to be sent home with supplies of flour and cooking oil. Outside the MSF center, new tents are being set up to ease up the burden on the already stretched facility, where nurses work round the clock to diagnose the 300 hungry children who come daily from surrounding villages. A 16-ton shipment of oil, sugar, and nutritional paste arrived in Maradi from France on Thursday and several more shipments were scheduled, the U.N. World Food Program said. But the need is great and growing in this desert nation of 11.3 million regularly ranked among the world's least developed. When the first appeal was made, only $1 dollar per day and per person would have helped solve the food crisis, the U.N. has said. Now that the situation has worsened and people are weaker, $80 will be needed per person. "It's the worst I've seen so far," said Hassan Balla, a primary school teacher in Tarna, a village just outside Maradi. "What is happening is really ugly," he said. "I've seen people eat leaves ... live like animals." Balla, however, is optimistic. "The world is generous," he said. `Our friends heard our cries. Do you think they will let us suffer when they are living comfortably?" Bold part is the saddest thing I've heard in a very long time.

QUOTE(Milkman delivers @ Jul 25, 2005 -> 12:29 AM) Ahh, which brings to mind the quote of the famous philosopher/poet Nuke Cleveland. "Eat s***!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Do you kiss your mother with that mouth?

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Jul 24, 2005 -> 11:33 PM) I got tickets for scout seats. Game 1 and 2 at the Cell. Call me for more info. *cues the music from The Graduate*

QUOTE(Texsox @ Jul 24, 2005 -> 11:01 PM) Call me crazy but I love the pink. It is very calming. I even read one of Nuke's sarcastic, GOPernaut, induced, dittohead post and never raised my blood pressure. Yeah, but I have a feeling Wino doesn't like the pink. . . Sorry, that was inappropriate.

QUOTE(3E8 @ Jul 25, 2005 -> 12:10 AM) s*** happens. And you are what you eat.

Yeah, his administration didn't know about Rwanda like the current one doesn't know about Sudan. (I also think that 800,000 is low balling th death total). Kiss my ass politicians. You're all more concerned about furthering your own crappy careers than the actual well being of the innocent and vulnerable people in the world.

QUOTE(SoxFan1 @ Jul 25, 2005 -> 12:04 AM) Of course. Good things come to those who wait. Patience is a virtue! Yes, and haste makes waste!

I also just finished it. I really liked it--it was a sort of dry effortless humor. Look forward to the discussion.

Conversation yesterday in Barnes and Nobel with a friend: Friend: You know who's hot? Me: I can think of a few names. . . Friend: That Harry Potter guy. Me: Alan Rickman? Kenneth Branagh? Friend: No, the one that plays Harry Potter. Me: Um, he's like 12. Friend: No way, he's totally 18. Me: You're a pediphile. He's like 10 years young than us. Gross. Friend: He's 18 and he's hot. This went on for a while, I'm sure the other shoppers thought we were insane/sexual predators.

Alex, we need a pink one.

QUOTE(whitesoxjr27 @ Jul 24, 2005 -> 06:54 PM) my great aunt and uncle had there first date at game 1. Jeez, I'd marry any guy that got tickets to take me to a Sox world Series game. Anyway, that series was before my time, even my dad doesn't remember it (he was 4).

I've been to Mystic Lake more than a few times. It's good. Lots of slot machines, black jack, Roulette, etc. If you get a chance, watching the High Stakes black jack section is tons of fun. The thing I liked about it is they have the really cheap black jack table, so you can start out winning small stuff. Also, I like Mystic Lake because I never left there with less money than I went in. Two thumbs up. Have fun. Edit: I've not done it, but I've heard the Buffet there is really good. But there are a lot of good places to eat and stay around there. I think there's a macaroni grill (which I like). Anyway, color me jealous--you'll have a grand old time.

Saw the Island. Meh. Some good action sequences, Ewan McGregor is hot, but their were some mega plot holes. I also felt like it got really preachy (for whoever was talking about Hollywood only making leftist movies--see this one). Not to mention the "science" behind the film was absolute crap--and my other neuro friend and I almost peed our pants laughing. Oh, and the script got really bad at times. Overall though, I've seen worse and didn't mind spending $5 to see it.

QUOTE(DePloderer @ Jul 22, 2005 -> 03:40 PM) They can rip all they want, it'll be me in Bordeaux sampling all the local produce, not them. Enjoy the game, the nearest I've ever got to Cellular is DeVault Memorial, Bristol. Bordeaux is my favorite wine region. Sooooooo delicious. Have fun you lucky, lucky, lucky sod.

Nightgown or a t-shirt.

The black one is Bagheera and the kitten is BaBar (whom I'm keeping). They're cute--except when chasing each other around at 4am.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Jul 22, 2005 -> 01:46 PM) This whole thread is so cliche It's passe even. . .

I think baseball is gone from the Olympics anyway.

Red Sox fans have driven me to root for the Yankees when they play each other. . . At least the Yankees are honest about what they are: purchasers of talent with a huge HUGE HUGE payroll. Hey, Bowston you're the same damn thing--except with crapper accents and more irritating fans.

linkage King George's Madness Linked to Arsenic By EMMA ROSS, AP Medical Writer Fri Jul 22, 7:53 AM ET LONDON - Scientists have found high levels of arsenic in the hair of King George III and say the deadly poison may be to blame for the bouts of apparent madness he suffered. In 1969, researchers proposed the strange behavior of the monarch who reigned during the American Revolution resulted from a rare hereditary blood disorder called porphyria. However, a study this week in The Lancet medical journal found high concentrations of arsenic in the king's hair and contends the severity and duration of his episodes of illness may have been caused by the toxic substance. The 18th-century king, under whose reign Britain mastered the oceans, defeated Napoleon and expanded its empire to superpower dimensions, was best remembered for the humiliating loss of the American colonies and for the periods when he lost his mind. While on the throne, George had five episodes of prolonged and profound mental derangement. At the time, his malady was thought to be a psychiatric disorder. But in 1969, psychiatrists investigating his documented symptoms such as lameness, acute abdominal pain, red urine and temporary mental disturbance, proposed he suffered from porphyria. Subsequent studies that examined records of his ancestors, descendants and other relatives refined the diagnosis to a certain type of porphyria. However, the research did not explain the unusual persistence, severity and late onset of attacks. "People can have the faulty gene which makes them susceptible to attacks, but in about 80 percent of cases they never have any symptoms," said Martin Warren, a professor of biosciences at the University of Kent in England who led the latest study. "If you are unfortunate enough to get them, porphyric attacks can be deadly and some patients die from their first one, but in many cases the attacks tend to be much less severe, and certainly not for the same duration that George III had," he said. Warren and his team set out to examine a sample of the king's hair on display at London's Science Museum for traces of mercury or lead, metals known to make porphyria worse. "What surprised us was there were very high levels of arsenic. Arsenic is also known to push porphyric patients into a worse state," Warren said. The semi-metallic element was found to be at 17 parts per million in the hair. Levels are normally found at less than one part per million. Arsenic interferes with the production of heme, a key element of blood and the central problem of porphyria. The blood then gets toxic, which can cause mental disturbance and severe pain. However, John Henry, a toxicologist at Imperial College in London, said he was cautious about interpreting the findings. "He may have accumulated significant amounts in the last few months of his life, but that doesn't prove it caused his illness all his life," Henry said. "It's a nice theory, but it's just that — a theory." Museums sometimes spray artifacts with arsenic to preserve them, but the arsenic was evenly distributed along the whole length of the hair, which is consistent with the toxin being within the hair rather than dusted on it. Wig powder and skin ointment were other possibilities, but the levels were too high for that to be a plausible explanation, Warren said. The king's medical records revealed he had been consistently given a medicine containing antimony, a mineral often found in the ground with arsenic. "The way antimony was extracted 200 years ago means that it was often quite contaminated with arsenic," Warren said. "The king was given large doses of antimony for his abdominal pains and that was probably the source of the arsenic."