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It's Monday Jan 26, 2009, and I've gotten started on the content for this new blog. If you have some insight into how best to get the blog going in a respectable way that many Clarkies and The Old Man himself will get involved, PLEASE within the next 48 hours, get in touch with me. You can send a private notification through clicking on my CCN member name, but I trust you guys and I'm going to share my own email addy, also:

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Bravenewfilms argues in this alarming new video that John McCain's health records must be released. Much of their case seems to rest upon the fact that Senator McCain has been treated for Stage II melanoma.

The state of John McCain's health is an issue of grave concern for all Americans, regardless of political persuasion. Given the fact that he has been treated for an invasive melanoma and other maladies, it is important that he release his full health records.

SPEAKING OF DOOM...

FAIRWELL TO THE HOLOCENE

I promised you a new DOOM post awhile ago. While the US Presidential Race rages on, the issues get buried or reduced to a soundbite. Here's one issue.
I encourage you to follow the links and read and listen.

got doom?

FLINT, Mich. – Former Vice President Al Gore will appear in Detroit tonight for his debut campaign appearance with Senator Barack Obama, extending an endorsement and urging all Democrats to rally behind the party’s fall ticket.

“A few hours from now I will step on stage in Detroit, Michigan to announce my support for Senator Barack Obama,” Mr. Gore said in an e-mail sent to his supporters. “From now through Election Day, I intend to do whatever I can to make sure he is elected President of the United States.”

"...now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country..."

I've typed that a million times - like many of you, probably - while practicing typing skills, under my mom's tutelage. I've always liked that it ended with "country", and not the original wording of the phrase, which is "party."  

A few weeks ago I was listening to NPR's "All Things Considered", when they mentioned a test of a new military weapon, "coming up" as they say in the radio biz. I "stayed tuned" while parked in my driveway and heard this report:
Non-Lethal Weapon Emits Invisible Rays of Pain
by Guy Raz, All Things Considered, October 29, 2007 (listen at link)

The Pentagon's research arm has come up with a weapon that can neutralize an individual — or a crowd — from a distance of more than 500 yards.

International Relations: Chinese Valentine's Day, this Sat./Sun.
Submitted by Clearsky on August 16, 2007 - 10:28am.
Science, Astronomy, and
International People-to-people Relations:

Chinese Valentine's Day
2007: August 18th (19)

Celebrated on the 7th day of the 7th lunar month (in the Chinesecalendar, the Chinese Valentine's Day is a day of romance, love and passion.

There is a little love story attached to this day. It is a story of the 7th daughter of the Emperor of the Heaven and an orphaned cowherd:
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Chinese folk-lore story