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Busy day here, and I'm feeling a tad under the weather as well, so some links to help you pass the time:
Four years after the fall of the Taliban, Afghans express both vast support for the changes that have shaken their country and remarkable optimism for the future, despite the deep challenges they face in economic opportunity, security and basic services alike.Freedom is funny that way.
Historians say six million Jews were killed in the Nazi Holocaust.Right, right, all based on the word of a few historians rather than the evidence of murder camps, mass graves, and several million Jews that mysteriously vanished.
Conservative columnist Ann Coulter cut short a speech at the University of Connecticut amid boos and jeers, and decided to hold a question-and-answer session instead.The original headline (currently available here) read: "Ann Coulter to audience: You're stupider than me.""I love to engage in repartee with people who are stupider than I am," Coulter told the crowd of 2,600 Wednesday.
I think Coulter's a histrionic shrew, but at least she understands the rules of English.
Machines will perform euthanasia on terminally ill patients in Israel under legislation devised not to offend Jewish law, which forbids people taking human life.Apparently afixing a special timer knowing it will kill the patient is somehow different from, say, giving an overdose knowing it will kill the patient. For some reason. They seem pretty sure of it.A special timer will be fitted to a patient's respirator which will sound an alarm 12 hours before turning it off.
Normally, carers would override the alarm and keep the respirator turned on but, if various stringent conditions are met, including the giving of consent by the patient or legal guardian, the alarm would not be overridden.
Similar timing devices, known as Sabbath clocks, are used in the homes of orthodox Jews so that light switches and electrical devices can be turned on during the Sabbath without offending religious strictures.You know, I think that's one of the most ridiculous things I have ever read. In a world full of suffering and mayhem, God worries about whether or not you turned on a reading lamp.
People are nuts.
