mvelinder

"A new study says the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo is killing around 45,000 people each month—half of them small children under the age of five. The International Rescue Committee says the war in the Congo is the deadliest conflict since the Second World War, with 5.4 million people killed over the past decade."

"President George W. Bush and seven of his administration’s top officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, made at least 935 false statements in the two years following September 11, 2001, about the national security threat posed by Saddam Hussein’s Iraq."

"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality."

"Putting his arm around a teenage girl, he waved to the cameras and offered, “Who let the dogs out?” He added a tepid “woof woof.” Later, Mr. Romney admired a child’s gold necklace and said, “Oh, you’ve got some bling-bling here."

"Israel launched an advanced spy satellite Monday that will be able to track events in Iran"

"The watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has analyzed the 16 days when Cheney’s office claims it has no email archives. One of the days is Sept. 30, 2003 – the same day the Justice Department and FBI announced they were investigating who outed former CIA agent Valerie Plame. Cheney’s office is also missing e-mails from Oct. 4, 2003 – the day the Justice Department demanded that the White House turn over “all documents that relate in any way” to the leak of Plame’s identity."

"Don’t eat anything your great grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.
Avoid food products containing ingredients that are a) unfamiliar, b) unpronounceable, or c) more than five in number, or that include d) high-fructose corn syrup.
Avoid food products that make health claims."