The U.S. Air Force is in the market for an aircraft that can be used for light attack and armed reconnaissance (LAAR) missions. It also will be used to provide training to foreign military allies so they can provide their own defense. Very soon the Department of Defense will decide whether to award the contract …
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Elizabeth Taylor, good-bye and God bless you
Elizabeth Taylor died of congestive heart failure today at the age of 79. Being a movie star made her famous but I believe that her movies will endure on the strength of her character, her resilience, her courage and her loyalty more than any other reason that makes an actress famous or a movie a …
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A letter from Sendai, Japan
My spiritual community is the Transcendental Meditation organization — relax, seriously, it’s not a religion, it’s a mental technique that gradually generates and establishes the experience of enlightenment. Through my network of TM friends, I just received a letter from a friend of a friend who is living in Sendai, Japan, and survived the tsunami …
What if James Carville isn’t distorting what conservatives believe as a rhetorical trick, but …
… because he actually believes that’s what we believe? Last night I had the pure joy and honor to meet Mary Matalin and chat with her at the fundraiser she held in her home for GOProud. Whenever I’ve seen her on television she’s always been under enemy fire, so while I knew about her brilliance, …
Epidemic of high blood pressure, depression and anxiety among the elderly
Today I took my father, who is 94, to a routine appointment with his geriatrician, which always begins with the physician assistant, Debbie, taking a history and his vital signs. She pronounced my father’s blood pressure “perfect” at 106/60. Then she said she was especially glad to see this because over the last six months …
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Oo-oo, child, things are going to get easier
Via my dear friend, Jenny, The Bloggess, a couple of days ago I found the blog of a young lesbian who is in seminary on the ordination track to be a Lutheran minister — thus the name of her blog, Emm in Sem: Gay marriage isn’t revolutionary. It’s just the next step in marriage’s evolution. …
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Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor on the brain and pure bliss consciousness
This video is neuroanatomist Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor‘s talk at the TED conference on Feb. 27, 2008, on her experience of a hemorrhagic stroke in 1996. You may relate better to some posts I’m planning if you have listened to this speech first. I plan to refer to it when I write about my own …
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Intellectual property theft worked out better for Stanley Miller than it has for Cooks Source
Dear Little Miss Attila has been ALL OVER the story of Judith Griggs, managing editor of Cooks Source, which publishes online, on Facebook, and on paper, using an article on how apple pies were prepared in medieval England without the permission of the author, Monica Gaudio. When a friend tipped Ms. Gaudio off to the …
Ninth Circuit grants Obama’s request to reinstate ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’
see more Historic LOL I’m phoning this one in — here’s the press release dated Nov. 1 from the Log Cabin Republicans: (Washington, DC) – The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has granted the Obama administration’s request to resurrect the failed ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy while they continue defending the law in court. The …
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