| Magazine Uses all Anti-Right Examples to Show 'How Media Messes With ...
The hypocrisy is so thick in this piece it almost seems to have been penned for a Comedy Central late night TV show. To prove their point, that Americans are misled by "straw man arguments," Sci. Amer. gives us the example of president Bush saying in a 2005 speech that, “We've heard some people say, pull them out right now. That's a huge mistake. It'd be a terrible mistake. It sends a bad message to our troops, and it sends a bad message to our enemy, and it sends a bad message to the Iraqis." This, Sci. Amer. says, is a mischaracterization of the anti-war position. No one, they say, was ever saying that we should immediately pull out of Iraq. The statement that unnamed “people" are advocating a troop withdrawal from Iraq “right now" is a straw man, because it exaggerates the opposing viewpoint.
Hospitals / Health Care
Decker works with the blood services department of the American Red Cross's Tennessee Valley Region. Over the past year, Shelbyville's support of American Red Cross blood drives has plummeted from 50 units of blood each month to fewer than 30. Some months, as few as 15 units have been collected... .
Howard the possum stirs up a lot of human feelings
Readers of the ongoing saga of Howard the possum in Gardening Fool columns have responded with several heartfelt stories of their own. Others have written to reiterate that it is we humans who have overrun wildlife's territory, not the other way around, so we should learn to live together peacefully. To date, no new feedback involving firearms or recipes for possum stew have arrived on my desk. At least one reader has warned that possum attacks on my garden chickens are inevitable. When that happens, he writes, I won't be such a bleeding heart for Howard and his relatives. As it turns out, however, more than a few of you have a soft spot for the wild things. Mariana Greene .
A selection of Breyer's hypotheticals
Now to me, I grant you I'm not an expert, but it looks at about the same level as I have a sensor on my garage door at the lower hinge for when the car is coming in and out, and the raccoons are eating it. So I think of the brainstorm of putting it on the upper hinge, OK? Now I just think that how could I get a patent for that?" ------ Gonzales v. Raich, whether state laws protect sick people who use marijuana for medical reasons from a federal ban on the drug, Nov. 29, 2004: --Breyer: "You know, he grows heroin, cocaine, tomatoes that are going to have genomes in them that could, at some point, lead to tomato children that will eventually affect Boston. ... So you're going to get around all those examples by saying what?" --Randy Barnett, representing sick clients who have been prescribed marijuana: "By saying that it's all going to depend on the regulatory scheme." --Breyer: "So now what you're saying is, in a commerce clause case, what we're supposed to do is to start to look at the federal scheme and the state scheme and see, comparing the federal scheme and the state scheme, whether, given the state scheme, the federal scheme is really necessary to include this.
Substance Over Style; Survey Shows Off-The-Wall Job-Hunting Tactics ...
MENLO PARK, Calif., Feb. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Creative professionals may be tempted to use innovative approaches when reaching out to hiring managers. But a new survey from The Creative Group suggests this strategy can be a gamble. More than half (52 percent) of marketing executives and one-quarter (26 percent) of advertising executives said they view unusual job-hunting tactics, such as sending a potential employer a shoe "to get a foot in the door," as unprofessional. Advertising executives were more likely to approve of unusual approaches than their corporate marketing counterparts: 46 percent of respondents in this category considered gimmicky resumes OK, provided the style doesn't detract from the information, versus 34 percent of marketing executives who felt the same. The national study was developed by The Creative Group, a specialized staffing service providing marketing, advertising, creative and web professionals on a project basis, and conducted by an independent research firm.
Activists say NJ report shows need for homosexual 'marriage'
Once you start going down this road of the government getting behind homosexual unions, you create incentives for further pro-gay policies," he warns. New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine has promised to sign a same-sex marriage bill into law, but not until after the 2008 elections. Political analysts from both parties say Corzine fears a backlash of conservative voter turnout that could cost Democrats control of Congress if another "gay marriage" law went into effect before November. .
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