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You're after love, you fall for pride instead. Ah, but hubris wears the tailored suit with a rosebud boutonniere. Hubris tips the maitre d' in twenties. Hubris parks the SUV in VIP garages. You think I'm talking rich people here? You can have your biggie fries and a chip on your shoulder, both. Vanity is classless, and clueless. From Donald Rumsfeld to Ronald McDonald, all you need is empty calories in your hungry gut to send you off to fight your wars. Once you're weaned of love by demon pride, respect is what you're after and nothing fills the bill like the cantankerous guns of Generalissimo Ignoramus.
Details of the plans are secret, but in general they envision a significantly expanded role for the military -- and, in particular, a growing force of elite Special Operations troops -- in continuous operations to combat terrorism outside of war zones such as Iraq and Afghanistan. Developed over about three years by the Special Operations Command (SOCOM) in Tampa, the plans reflect a beefing up of the Pentagon's involvement in domains traditionally handled by the Central Intelligence Agency and the State Department.
The company, located in Whippany, sent no one to meet with the demonstrators -- all members of the Princeton Student Global AIDS Campaign and ACT UP Philadelphia -- although the picketers left a gift basket filled with melted Easter bunnies and a letter addressed to CEO Miles White.
The group explained that the melted candy was symbolic of how useless the older versions of the company's leading AIDS medication, Kaletra, become when not refrigerated. The FDA approved a new version of the drug in October that does not require refrigeration and can be taken without food, and the letter lists the group's demands, which include affordable pricing for the new version of Kaletra in low- and middle-income countries.
The junior senator from Illinois, Barack Obama, one of the Democrats' most admired politicians, has tried to make a joke of it. "You hear this constant refrain from our critics that Democrats don't stand for anything," he remarked the other day. "That's really unfair. We do stand for anything."
The libertarians need to wake up and realize that if they want free markets, they are going to have to fight for them.
Abstinence curricula must have a clear definition of sexual abstinence which must be consistent with the following: “Abstinence means voluntarily choosing not to engage in sexual activity until marriage. Sexual activity refers to any type of genital contact or sexual stimulation between two persons including, but not limited to, sexual intercourse.”
Throughout the entire curriculum, the term “marriage” must be defined as “only a legal union between one man and one woman as a husband and wife, and the word ’spouse’ refers only to a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife.” (Consistent with Federal law)
... Hamas leaders declined to condemn the bombing, suggesting it was an act of self-defense. A Hamas spokesman in the Gaza Strip, Sami Abu Zouhri, called the attack "a natural result of the continued Israeli aggression and escalation against our people."
When President Bush authorized Vice President Dick Cheney's top aide to reveal previously classified intelligence to a reporter about Saddam Hussein's efforts to obtain uranium, as the aide has testified, that information was already being discredited by several senior officials in the administration, interviews show.
A review of the records and interviews conducted since that crucial period in June and July of 2003 also show that what the aide, I. Lewis Libby Jr., said he was authorized to portray to reporters as a "key judgment" by the intelligence community had in fact been given much less prominence in an earlier intelligence report.
Mr. Fitzgerald, in his filing, said that Mr. Libby had been authorized to tell Judith Miller, then a reporter for The New York Times, on July 8, 2003, that a key finding of the 2002 intelligence estimate on Iraq was that Baghdad had been vigorously seeking to acquire uranium from Africa.
But a week earlier, in an interview in his State Department office, Mr. Powell told three other reporters for The Times that intelligence agencies had essentially rejected that contention, and were "no longer carrying it as a credible item" by early 2003, when he was preparing to make the case against Iraq at the United Nations.
The Bush administration is studying options for military strikes against Iran as part of a broader strategy of coercive diplomacy to pressure Tehran to abandon its alleged nuclear development program, according to U.S. officials and independent analysts.
We have found that the Republicans are really good at telling you when you can be born, they're good at telling you when you can die, but not very good at the stuff in between.
Chapters --
Yesterday was an incredibly big day for the campaign. Abbott Labs announced registration of the new Kaletra in South Africa while declaring that it would be made available at $500/patient/year -- the same price level of the older version of Kaletra. Media that picked up the story attributed Abbott's actions to activist pressure that the company has been receiving over the last several months. And that pressure came directly from student activists in SGAC.
Everyone should give themselves a good pat on the back and look forward to the Week of Action (April 10-19) with a renewed energy. There are still several urgent demands that have not been addressed by Abbott at all. And while registration in S. Africa is a step towards access, it is not nearly enough.
Attached is SGAC's official response to Abbott's announcement yesterday. Please feel free to circulate to the rest of your chapter and even your school paper to show the kind of progress that we've made on this campaign. Also, there is a link provided below to view Abbott's press release from yesterday's anouncement.
Abbott Press Release:
http://abbott.com/news/press_release.cfm?id=1078
Peace,
Sara Renn
Grassroots Action Coordinator
EFI and BIOS
Macs use an ultra-modern industry standard technology called EFI to handle booting. Sadly, Windows XP, and even the upcoming Vista, are stuck in the 1980s with old-fashioned BIOS. But with Boot Camp, the Mac can operate smoothly in both centuries.
Word to the Wise
Windows running on a Mac is like Windows running on a PC. That means it’ll be subject to the same attacks that plague the Windows world. So be sure to keep it updated with the latest Microsoft Windows security fixes.
Google Romance is a place where you can post all types of romantic information and, using our Soulmate Search™, get back search results that could, in theory, include the love of your life. Then we'll send you both on a Contextual Date™, which we'll pay for while delivering to you relevant ads that we and our advertising partners think will help produce the dating results you're looking for.