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// Cool look at Charles Carroll.
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// This site did not get Drudged. While only about half of the list is what I would call "serious"; half the list shows serious intrusions into personal freedom.
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Quote:"One side effect of such a body reaction is the feeling of either terror or rage. The ‘beast’ inside is unleashed and takes over the body. For martial artists, this is channelled through our training. By the endless repetition of techniques, basics and kata we have conditioned ourselves to act in a certain way under pressure. The downside is trying to control that rage with ‘the beast unleashed’. Our civilised brains, the part of us that doesn’t want to hurt anyone, fights for control. For some, like Raymond, it succeeds. For others, the beast wins and tragedy happens; someone gets killed."
// Read the whole thing, it's about an encounter with three muggers who get hurt and almost killed by a martial arts instructor. Then the police arrested the martial arts instructor. Welcome to UK. [I also like the story because it shows martial arts is effective in self defense]
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Quote:"About 40 percent of adults were single in 2009, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Researchers interviewed 32 of these middle-class, never-married women over age 30. They found that these women perceive themselves as caught in a double bind: Their single status made them both highly visible and invisible."
// Relax ladies, men feel this stigma too. It's even worse when your Catholic, your priest either wants you to start having kids or to become one of the Religious.
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// CO2 was the culprit! Stop producing greenhouse gases or the dinosaurs will rule again.
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Quote:"Doctors in Britain regularly discriminate against older patients by denying them tests and treatments they offer to younger people, research shows today.
GPs, heart specialists and doctors who care for the elderly were all found to be influenced by a patient's age when making their recommendations -and older doctors were more likely to discriminate than younger doctors."
// Conspiracy theory alert! Democrats are looking to overhaul healthcare in order to kill off old people and save social security </sarcasm>
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// I don't like, for good reason, the IRS as it is. Now they will have expanded power to snoop in my life. The jokes on them, it will actually be cheaper for me to pay the fine than to actually have health insurance (though I do have health insurance right now).
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// An excellent run down on some myths (both from the left and right) about this healthcare bill.
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