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The Buddhists say that two arrows always fly towards you. Whether they hit or not is another matter. The first arrow is the bad thing that happens to you. The second arrow... You know what it is. It is what you do to yourself after the bad thing that happens to you.

SPIEGEL ONLINE - January 10, 2007, 05:09 PM URL: http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,457002,00.html FIGHTING FOR THEIR SURVIVAL A Christian Exodus from the Arab World By Amira El Ahl, Daniel Steinvorth, Volkhard Windfuhr and Bernhard Zand Violence, terrorism and the...

Let's look at the styles of arguments often employed here. You've heard of syllogisms. And you have certainly seen the following patterns displayed here: The Case of the Good Cause: No GOOD CAUSE will submit to the issue of shared resources. Shared resources is another topic. Not relevant. Not...

Venezuela's Leap Backward Hugo Chávez steers his country toward the socialism of the 20th century. Wednesday, January 10, 2007; A12 BEFORE HIS reelection as Venezuelan president last month, Hugo Chávez declared that his goal was to receive 10 million votes and thereby a mandate to greatly...

Scraping by on $150,000 a year Why is it that no matter how much you earn, you can't make ends meet? The answer is often right before your eyes. By Money magazine If she thought it would really fix her family's finances, Amy Schuett would make it her New Year's resolution to squeeze every...

I make $6.50 an hour. Am I poor? I put this in an international thread, because how we view rich vs poor and how we respond to it in our own personal lives is much more important than the vacuous grand standing politics that attend to this matter. Interesting article: Here's how I...

I originally hail from Philadelphia but have lived in Virginia these last 3 years. The Giants gave us a close game, and have many stars on their team, but...the Eagles won. GO EAGLES !!

"Science's Breakthrough of the Year: The Poincare Theorem Solved: In 2006, researchers closed a major chapter in mathematics, reaching a consensus that the elusive Poincare Conjecture, which deals with abstract shapes in three-dimensional space, had finally been solved.... "The Poincare...

A Journey of the Heart Before Their Pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims Navigate the Spiritual and the Practical By Dina ElBoghdady Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, December 28, 2006; C01 Don't wander off because if you get lost, you may end up in prison for days before someone even asks...

A reminder. Y'all probably know. But say there's a guy name Abu Omar. This means Abu Omar is the Father of his FIRST SON named Omar. In Arafat's case he was the Father of a First Son who everyone knew had died, and so everytime they said his name, it was with a greater understanding than...

You wanna know why Shi-ites (Shi-i or Shia) kill guys named OMAR ? Here we go: May 8 2006 http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0508/p06s01-woiq.htm Death squads deepen division in Baghdad Bombs Sunday killed at least 30; some 45 men were found slain in the capital. By Dan Murphy | Staff...

What's DIABUTA ??? Throw in a little KIWI FRUIT too.

Got $2,200? In this world, you're rich The research indicates that assets of just $2,200 per adult place a household in the top half of the world's wealthiest. To be among the richest 10% of adults in the world, just $61,000 in assets is needed. If you have more than $500,000, you're part of...

Sitting on my saran-wrap lawn chair with a broken antenna, I am suddenly startled by my rice krispies going Snap Crackle Pop. Yonder by sits my tin foil hat with tire treads defiling its form. Perhaps its because I'm sitting here smack center in a small town intersection with me wireless lap...

Major Causes of Global Temperature Shifts (1) Astronomical Causes 11 year and 206year cycles: Cycles of solar variability( sunspot activity ) 21,000 year cycle: Earth's combined tilt and elliptical orbit around the Sun ( precession of the equinoxes ) 41,000 year cycle: Cycle of the +/- 1.5°...

Dream Seekers Test pilots. A giant turtle. Denis Leary. What could it all mean? By Dan Zak Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, October 29, 2006; M01 It is January 2009. Imagine, for a moment, that the new president begins his inaugural address by saying he has written down and studied...

There are many misleading points in Micheal Fox's commercial. See if anyone spots them.

We are disillusioned, but not to the point of agreeing with the Democrats. We wanted our party and its leaders to do better. They didn't. We have no hope for the Democrats either. S.O.S. Conservative voters likely to stay home By Ralph Z. Hallow THE WASHINGTON TIMES Published...

This American Republican is going to get it. No food today. Get to bend over and take it tommorrow. Then going on Oprah to tell all about it.

U.S. Faces Obstacles To Freeing Detainees Allies Block Returns From Guantanamo By Craig Whitlock Washington Post Foreign Service Tuesday, October 17, 2006; A01 BERLIN -- British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett last week issued the latest European demand to close down the U.S. military...