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YouTube video by CBS 1960 May 22 19:11:14 UTC  Magnitude 9.5

Recalling 1960 Chile earthquake. Approximately 1,655 killed, 3,000 injured, 2,000,000 homeless, and $550 million damage in southern Chile; tsunami caused 61 deaths, $75 million damage in Hawaii; 138 deaths and $50 million damage in Japan; 32 dead and missing in the Philippines; and $500,000 damage to the west coast of the United States. -USGS

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
* Nietzsche

Watch this video See for yourself the inane belief of today’s modern Christian belief and practice. It is not much difference than the Salem Witch Trials.

Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes interview Shirley Phelps Roper, whose father is the idiot who organizes protests at funerals of soldiers. This is one of the few times that the conservative Hannity and liberal Colmes agree that Roper is an ungrateful nut who has no appreciation for the brave men and women in the military fighting for our country.

If you see a member of the Patriot Guard Riders, a group of motorcyclists and veterans that disrupts the anti-military protesters, thank them. And as always, support our troops. They’re the ones who sacrifice everything so that you and I can have freedom, even for those like Shirley Phelps Roper.

Originally posted 2006-05-31 17:28:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Plus 5.0+“aftershocks!”

A massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck Chile early Saturday, shaking the capital of Santiago for 90 seconds and sending tsunami warnings and advisories along much of the pacific basin. – nytimes

President Michelle Bachelet declared a “state of catastrophe” in affected areas and appealed for calm.

Tsunami warnings have been issued for Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand, Central America with the inclusion of  Pacific island nations. – bbc

California warned its coastal cities to prepare for possible tsunami waves following a deadly magnitude-8.8 earthquake off the coast of Chile. - latimes

A devastating earthquake struck Chile early Saturday, toppling homes, collapsing bridges and plunging trucks into the fractured earth. A tsunami set off by the magnitude-8.8 quake threatened every nation around the Pacific Ocean — roughly a quarter of the globe. – sfgate

One surprised reporter on the huge Chilean earthquake this morning, former “American Idol” contestant elliott yamin.

CNN noted this morning that Yamin has “been tweeting like crazy.”

Livestream (in spanish)

Yamin, who had been performing in chile, was to do interviews with ABC and NBC this morning. He wrote: “Scariest nite/morn of my life!!…” – orlando sentinel

We hope our Maui bloggin’ gal pal Kuanyin and family remains high and dry.

Civil defense sirens were sounded at 6 a.m. to alert residents about the tsunami generated by an 8.8 magnitude earthquake off Chile. the first waves are expected to reach Hawaii at about 11 a.m. – honolulu star-bulletin

Hawaii woke residents with sirens, alerting them to the waves. a tsunami warning — the highest alert level — was issued earlier for the island chain. boats and people near the coast were being evacuated. Hilo international airport, located along the coast, was closed. -sfgate

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Originally posted 2008-11-26 22:35:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Australian officials ordered a popular Chinese-made children’s toy pulled from the shelves after scientists found it contained a chemical that converts into a powerful “date rape” drug when ingested.
Star Tribune

Originally posted 2007-11-07 13:04:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

“Well, apparently the Government is expecting a half million people to die relatively soon, and the Atlanta Airport is a major airline traffic hub, probably the biggest in the country, which means Georgia is a prime base to conduct military operations and coordination.”
Read on
[Exodus Times]

Challenge the speculations and assertions.
Put on your thinking caps, kiddies. I mean really think hard on this one.
*News you can trust?
*Hint – the economy

Originally posted 2008-08-07 23:16:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

1847 USA: The Arkansas Intellegencer newspaper reported that Choctaw Indians, on learning of the Irish Potato Famine, sent $710 to a famine relief fund in Ireland.

On May 23, 1995, Mary Robinson, the then President of Ireland, visited the Choctaw Nation to convey her nation’s thanks for this act of generosity from the Choctaws. President Robinson, who had been made a Chief of the Choctaw Nation, spoke to the Choctaw people in their native language, “Chahta I yakne ala li kut na sa yukpa.” Then she translated, “I am glad to have come to Choctaw Country.”

President Robinson added: “I believe that we have in common that bond of humanity and it should be an additional reason why we should particularly reach out now to countries who suffer from poverty and hunger. I think it is very important that we should try to give leadership in that and that we try to encourage others to understand that there are people today who need the support that the Choctaw Nation gave 150 years ago to the Irish people.”

Celtic dancers danced with Choctaw dancers during the ceremony.

The Choctaw tribe had had its own tragedy not long before its generous gift to the starving Irish: Indian removal. Read more at: Trail of Tears in the Book of Days (1838)
Pictured above: Choctaw Eagle Dance, by George Catlin, circa 1845 – 1848

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Choctaw blood, Choctaw Spirit

Originally posted 2008-04-02 17:03:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

Roger Ebert still reviews movies, despite many surgeries.  Read Roger Ebert’s profile beautifully written piece by Chris Jones at Esquire.com

Accept it or not, dying is yet another phase we will ultimately grow through when the time comes; all will enter.

I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear, he writes in a journal entry titled “Go Gently into That Good Night.” I hope to be spared as much pain as possible on the approach path. I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. What I am grateful for is the gift of intelligence, and for life, love, wonder, and laughter. You can’t say it wasn’t interesting. My lifetime’s memories are what I have brought home from the trip. I will require them for eternity no more than that little souvenir of the Eiffel Tower I brought home from Paris.

I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn’t always know this, and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.

Forgive me, please, for giggling at this article. It is a serious mention, no doubt, yet, on the other hand, it’s just too freakin’ cute.

NY gives away condoms to seniors to prevent AIDS

July 25, 2007
While volunteers passed out cups of Jell-O to the white-haired lunch crowd at a senior center, another group was distributing something that didn’t quite fit amid the card games and daily gossip: condoms.

“You’re giving out condoms,” 82-year-old Rose Crescenzo said with a wistful smile, “but who’s going to give us a guy?”

But this was no joke.

The condom giveaway is part of an effort by New York City’s Department of Aging to educate older people about the risks of contracting the virus that causes AIDS. After the condom giveaway, free HIV testing was offered.

AIDS education of the elderly has become an important issue as antiretroviral drugs that can keep patients living into their golden years changes the face of AIDS. Experts warn that ignorance about HIV among seniors can lead to new infections.

And those infections are happening. A physician from Howard University Hospital in Washington recently diagnosed unsuspected HIV in an 82-year-old.

So HIV educators are taking their message of prevention to senior centers and other locales where older people meet. They also hope to create a welcoming environment for people who already have the virus.

New York City has the most HIV cases of any U.S. city — nearly 100,000 — and is considered a leader in the area of AIDS education for seniors, with the City Council having budgeted $1 million toward HIV education for older people.

But smaller-scale campaigns are also under way elsewhere.

Nancy Orel, a professor of gerontology at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, is organizing a workshop for seniors that will include free condoms and HIV tests.

“Unfortunately, most individuals have the perception that sex ends at, what, 32?” Orel said. “And many older adults report that when they go to see their physicians, the physicians don’t ask if they’re sexually active.”

The program at the Peter Cardella Senior Center would have been unthinkable back when AIDS was known as a disease that strikes its victims young and kills them in their prime. But the aging of America’s AIDS population has changed that.

“Often older people do not concern themselves with HIV and AIDS because they assume that they are not at risk, and that can be a tragic mistake,” said Edwin Mendez-Santiago, New York City’s commissioner of aging.

Frank Garcia, 72, happily pocketed his supply of official New York City condoms, which are packaged with a subway logo.

“I think it’s a great thing,” he said. “We used to go to the drugstore and wait for an hour or two before we got up the nerve to ask for them. Your parents didn’t talk about it. Everything was street-taught.”

A study last year by the AIDS Community Research Initiative of America projected that within the next decade, the majority of HIV-infected New Yorkers will be over 50.

Dan Tietz, executive director of the AIDS research group, said HIV education is needed at senior centers, where the average age is more like 70, because “we know that people are still having sex well past 65.”

Dorcas Baker, who directs an AIDS education center in Baltimore, said health officials there began HIV prevention programs at senior centers in 2005.

“We call it the silent epidemic because no one thinks seniors are sexual or that they’re using drugs,” she said.

Some seniors tell AIDS educators the disease doesn’t affect them because they are not having sex.

“We challenge them by saying, ‘You’re a grandmother, you’re a mother, you’re a sister, you’re a neighbor,”‘ Baker said. “They can also help to raise awareness even if they’re not active themselves.”

People aged 50 to 64 accounted for 14 percent of new HIV diagnoses in 2005, while those over 65 comprised only about 2 percent of HIV diagnoses, according to Dr. Bernard Branson, associate director for laboratory diagnostics in the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

At the Peter Cardella Center in Queens, 66-year-old AIDS educator Edward Shaw recounted his own 1988 diagnosis and warned: “If you’re still having sex, you need to know about HIV/AIDS.”

Many of the seniors ignored him as they chatted with friends and settled in for pork chops and green beans.

“I think it should be done in areas where it’s really needed,” said Julia Karcher, 82. “These ladies are all by themselves for years and years and years.”

But Marie Tarantino, who gave her age as “39-plus,” said lonely seniors might take unwise risks.

“They might pick somebody up on the street,” she said. “They just think that at a certain age they can’t get pregnant. They don’t think they could get a sexually transmitted disease.”

And Crescenzo, who lost her husband of 62 years last October, did take the condoms.

“If I get a date,” she said, “I’m going to use one of these.”
Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.

Originally posted 2007-07-26 10:54:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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Originally posted 2006-11-02 11:46:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

However, it is all over with but the shoutin’ as we’ll soon see. The mitigated results will unfold quickly unlike any other ever witnessed before; moreover, add a few final touches here and there and voila! It’s dead in the water.

Defamation is no joke!

“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.”
*Dr. Albert Ellis

Originally posted 2007-05-10 20:38:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter