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The Wall Street Journal wrote an interesting post today on
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Georgia, Russia battle over breakaway enclave
TBILISI, Georgia - Intense fighting reportedly raged for a second night in the Georgian separatist region of South Ossetia on Saturday and Georgia’s interior ministry reported air attacks on three military bases and key facilities for shipping oil to the West.
Interior Ministry spokesman Shota Utiashvili said the Vaziani military base on the outskirts of the Georgian capital was bombed by warplanes during the night and that bombs fell in the area of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline.
He also said two other Georgian military bases were hit and that warplanes bombed the Black Sea port city of Poti, which has a sizable oil shipment facility.
Utiashvili said there apparently were significant casualties and damage in the attacks, but that further details would not be known until the morning.
Russia dispatched an armored column into South Ossetia on Friday after Georgia, a staunch U.S. ally, launched a surprise offensive […]

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Reuters News wrote an interesting post today on
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Research says that people with blonde hairwill go extinct in 200 years. Blonde
 
hair exists in people from Northern Europe.
 
The blonde gene that makes blonde hair occur
is supposed to be on both sides of the
familiy. There is NOW way too few
who has the blonde gene.
Even if abortion and contraceptives
were not allowed in Europe,
the white birthrate is still GROUND
low.
Caucasians don’t explain why OUR
Black poeple are all over the world.
Big populations of Black people can
be found in Southern China, mexico,
AUstralia, India,Malay Peninsula,
Formosa.
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charismaallover wrote an interesting post today on
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Tanning beds cause skin cancer
 
Tanning beds give you wrinkles.
It will cause you to look like a prune.
 
It causes uneven skin tone.
I even seen this among whites
that tan.

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unknown wrote an interesting post today on
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Well, if you check back a few blog entries, you’ll note that my pal Adam “Fiebs” is currently serving as a Peace Corp doctor in Mauritania.  Also, if you’ve checked the news recently, you’ll note that Mauritania is currently under a military coup.  This is scary, but as history (and Adam) will inform us, this is a very common occurance here, and he’s pretty well insulated from the stuff that going on in Nouakchott — closer to the coast.  Adam writes:
yes. all is well here. you just  cant get in or out of Nouakchott. but being in Rosso, thus far, i have been unaffected. if it turns violent, which by Mauritanias past history of coups shows it wont be, peace corps is pretty good about pulling us right away. but the saying here goes, 
 
Mauritania…worst…coup….ever.
they tried this in 99 and nothing changed and i suspect this will be similar but i guess […]

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Brian Battle wrote an interesting post today on
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by Stefan Fobes

Several comments that I have seen on The South American Union and Hugo Chavez showing his true stripes, and elsewhere, have inspired me to write this up. Let’s take a look at Hugo Chavez, the great “liberator”….
The most common response you get when you question Hugo Chavez’s motives is that he has done much for the poor. I don’t like the tiny elite which has been leeching off the fruits of the backbreaking labor of the South American masses for centuries. However, when you gain something through violence or theft, such as taking in that manner the land that the Venezuelan oligarchs held, it lowers the roof on what can be allowed to be done to anyone else. People must appreciate the fact that since these people’s land has been taken away from them, it opens the door for all Venezuelan freedoms to be taken away. This is […]

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unknown wrote an interesting post today on
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The Economist chose this sentence as a subtitle: “A war between Russia and Georgia appears to be under way“.
As in any war, the first victim was the truth. Contradictory accounts come from both sides, and reality is probably somewhere in between, lost in the fog of war. But military activities are in full course:
Georgian soldiers, tanks and fighter-planes struck Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, on Friday. Parts of the city were reported to be burning as Georgia’s president, Mikheil Saakashvili, declared that his forces had “freed” much of the area from separatist control.
[…] 150 Russian tanks were reported to be entering South Ossetia on Friday. Georgia’s government says that Russian planes have dropped bombs outside of South Ossetia including on the edge of Tblisi, the Georgian capital.

So why did they choose to say “appears to be”? Maybe because official war declarations are old-fashioned and disused. Recent conflicts seem to […]

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The Wall Street Journal wrote an interesting post today on
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Hair: A Requiem for the Ephemeral in Life

In The New York Times, Ben Brantley has written a very thoughtful review of the re-staging of the 1960s musical Hair by New York’s Public Theater. It’s exuberant production of Hair officially opened Thursday night, but middle-aged audience members who revisit this 1967 landmark theatrical work in search of the aimless flower children they once were are likely to uncover more than they bargained for.

The lively teenage rebels of Hair may be running headlong after a long good time. But in this production it’s clear that they’re also running away, and not just from what they see as the bleak futures of their parents lives and the outrages of the war in Vietnam. The hippies of this production of Hair are also struggling against the dawning of a sense that no party can last forever, and that they have no […]

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The Wall Street Journal wrote an interesting post today on
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These two images from a Russian news station show women and children running for shelter and taking cover in the city of Tskhinvali, on Friday, August 8, 2008. Georgian troops launched a major military offensive Friday attempting to regain control of the breakaway region of Southern Ossetia. Russia responded by vowing to retaliate and sent troops into the region. Dozens have been killed, according to AP reports. 
Georgia was forcibly incorporated into the USSR until the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991. 

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The Wall Street Journal wrote an interesting post today on
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BEIJING - China declared yesterday it was ready to stage one of the greatest Olympics ever, but a new terrorist threat, continuing concerns about air quality and human rights controversies hung over the final preparations.
As the world’s best athletes poured into Beijing and the Olympic flame passed over the Great Wall, Games organizers sought to shift global attention to the opening ceremonies and what they promised would be a sports spectacular.
“We have prepared for the Beijing Olympics for seven years and now we are ready … we are very confident indeed that we will stage a successful Olympics,” said Sun Weide, a spokesman for the organizing committee. “Of course we hope that these will be a great Games, even the greatest.”
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pbtt wrote an interesting post today on
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Very quietly, Georgia and Russia escalated their war in South Ossetia. After the air raids of yesterday, today Russian tanks are closing in the capital of South Ossetia, Tskhinvali.
Former president, now prime-minister, and acting tzar Putin admitted: war has started.
Georgia is a key western ally and a much-needed pathway for pipelines linking the Caspian Sea region to the western, bypassing Russia.

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