H1N1 Swine Flu: Epidemic Vs. Health Care
This morning a physician on MSNBC commented that one of the reasons H1N1 "Swine Flu" now has a strangle hold on 48 out of 50 states is because folk aren't going to the doctor's fast enough once they start to exhibit flu symptoms. People are waiting too long; they're waiting ...
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October 31, 2009
Darwin film ‘too controversial’ for American audiences
A new British film about Charles Darwin has failed to land a distribution deal in the States because his theories on human evolution are too controversial for religious American audiences, according to the film's producer. Creation follows the British naturalist's 'struggle between faith and reason' as he wrote his 1859 book, ...
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September 15, 2009
America: The Patient Is Already Dead
Americans are brainwashed. We believe everything about our country is "the best in the world" - even in the face of evidence to the contrary, and even though the majority of us have hardly ever been anywhere else. And so, when it comes to health-care we believe the same. But think ...
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August 23, 2009
Gays In The Military?
It's happening again. Seventeen years ago a charismatic young Democratic won the White House promising to end discrimination against gays in the military. Thinking it was a shoe-in, Bill Clinton underestimated the opposition. He overpromised and under-delivered, and in waffling on the issue, pushed equality down the road for what might ...
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April 4, 2009
The God Delusion
"The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving, control freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. Those of us schooled from infancy ...
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February 17, 2009
Darwin Usurped By Modern Medicine
It's a boy! And another boy... and a girl, and another boy - and a whole lot of hypocrisy. Will someone please explain the outcry regarding mommy dearest in California? I thought we couldn't eject enough of these little bundles of joy into the world? Don't get me wrong, I love kids just ...
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February 15, 2009
Name That Flag!
Not Sure? Read on to find out. Shame on us. Shame on this county's education system. Sometimes we wonder why the rest of the world has a problem with America... Here's an interactive map of the Middle East - you know, the part of the world that we are at war with and ...
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January 21, 2009
Is Barack Obama Really Our first African-American President?
Today was a truly incredible day. And here at Stop The World, we're colossal fans of Barack Obama. But is he really our first African-American president? The truth is that he is neither black nor white. His father was black and his mother was white. Is he then a black man ...
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January 20, 2009
No heroics, thank you.
Less than a minute after US Airways Flight 1549 to Charlotte, N.C. took off, Captain Sullenberger reported a "double bird strike" and asked to return to the ground. Minutes later, the plane was floating along the Hudson River. One hates to be a party pooper in the face of such an ...
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January 17, 2009
Are Humans A Virus On The Earth?
"Tonight we're going to party like it's 1999..." And so we did. As website Day of 6 Billion notes, the human world population reached a staggering six billion on or around October 12, 1999. And for some reason, instead of this being a sobering moment of world reflection, we jumped up and ...
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November 23, 2008
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