Whatareyadoing?

Man (sigh!), there was something going on with the previous template that was causing the backend to screw up big time. Buried in the coding was a script that was overloading my database and frankly I do not feel like spending the hours to look for it. It is going to take me about a [...]

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What socialized health care looks like in the U.K.

“But everybody gets access.”
Record numbers go abroad for health treatment with 70,000 escaping NHS
dailymail.co.uk
Record numbers of Britons are travelling abroad for medical treatment to escape the NHS - with 70,000 patients expected to fly out this year.
And by the end of the decade 200,000 “health tourists” will fly as far as Malaysa and South Africa [...]

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15 Laterals Miracle Play

Two words: IN–SANE!
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Some Republicans love nanny goverment, too!

Connecticut School District Wants Report Cards for Parents
By Catherine Donaldson-Evans
Foxnews.com
Parents in Connecticut might be the ones getting the report cards if a proposed plan makes the grade at a Manchester public school district.
Steve Edwards, a Republican member of the Manchester Board of Education who’s up for re-election Nov. 6, wants parents to be evaluated on [...]

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Yet another example of how the media likes to portray Blacks as “confused”

Black voters torn: Obama or Clinton? [Link]
Well suh, I jus don knows what I’m ‘pposed to do. Do I’s vote for a colored man, or do I’s votes for Mister’s wife?
I don’t know about you, but I have had my fill of articles talking about how Blacks are “torn” between two candidates. Last I checked, [...]

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When “victims” don’t tell the whole story

‘Ex-Gay’ Controversy Mars Gospel Concert Tour for Obama
By Randy Hall
CNSNews.com Staff Writer/Editor
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However, Regina Griggs, executive director of Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays (PFOX), told Cybercast News Service on Friday that such activities by homosexual activists “demonstrates a disregard for diversity and a refusal to respect a basic human right to dignity and self-determination.”
“Ex-gays [...]

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“Stop talking down on Black folks!”

This is by far the #1 whine I hear and see all the time online being directed towards individuals who are simply stating what they see within certain segments of the Black community. I have met more than my fair share of Black folks who are oftentimes very hesitant to state the obvious when there [...]

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600 rapes a day

Kenya: Report Shows 600 Women Raped Daily
East African Standard (Nairobi)
29 October 2007
Edith Fortunate
Nairobi
More than 600 females are raped daily, a new report shows.
The report, compiled by Gender Violence Recovery Centre (GVRC), indicates that the youngest rape survivor is five-months-old while the oldest is 86.
The statistics, which have been compiled in hospitals and community-based organisations where [...]

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Dance making its way back to center stage in hip hop

Dancing is all the rage again as hip-hop lightens up
By MALCOLM VENABLE, The Virginian-Pilot
Rapper Soulja Boy might be just a kid doing a simple, extremely popular dance, but he also represents a sea change.
Back in the glory days of hip-hop - the late 1980s and early ’90s - every real fan could perform a catalog [...]

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