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Monday, December 09, 2002

Pills For PTSD

I was reading an article by Ellen Goodman--A Pill For What Haunts You--where I discovered that pills may be able to dim down trauma so a person isn't haunted and harmed by recurring memories of the distrubing event. You see the awful effects of post trauma in the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder of Combat Vietnam Veterans who, to this day, relive the horrors of war. Perhaps, as with pills to prevent nervous breakdowns, pills to dim the harmful memories of extreme trauma would save a person from a lifetime of nightmarish memories?

CAN BETA BLOCKERS PREVENT PTSD? A FIRST LOOK
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Botox And Body Dysmorphic Disorder

What's Body Dysmorphic Disorder and what does it have to do with Botox?
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The Sutton Family's Feud With The Little Green Men

"Most of the Sutton family members who said they fought the aliens off with shotguns are deceased."

On Aug. 21, 1955, the little green men landed at the Sutton home on the Old Madisonville Road in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Not taking kindly to trespassers, particularly of the alien persuasion, the Suttons went to war with the aliens, the rest is history and the subject of an upcoming documentary based on eyewitness accounts.
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Sunday, December 08, 2002

The Roots Of Muslim Anger

Found this excellent post The Roots of Muslim Anger at yourish.com.
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Why Is Cardinal Law Above The Law?

Somebody help me out here with the enigma of why *Cardinal Law appears to be above the law.

I have no doubt if a person who owned a number of Child Care Centers discovered one of her/his workers sexually abused children and just moved the pedophile worker to one of the other centers, the law would come down on the owner like an avenger from hell. The owner would probably go to jail--and rightfully so, for not reporting the crime and being an accessory in allowing the predator to harm more children.

Why does it appear that Cardinal Law has been given a pass when he covertly shuffled pedophile priests from parish to parish without informing the law or firing the priests? Given all the children who were harmed by his silence, shouldn't he be held accountable to the highest degree? What gives?

"Pressure on Boston's Cardinal Bernard Law to resign increased Sunday with a large protest planned at Holy Cross Cathedral and the circulation among Boston priests of a letter calling on their boss to step down....The renewed activism comes after a fresh wave of scandal hit the Boston Archdiocese. Personnel files made public Tuesday contained some of the most spectacular allegations yet, suggesting church officials tolerated priests with a range of aberrant behaviors — not just sexual abuse of young boys."

Boston priests demand Law resignation

*"The Boston Globe broke the scandal in the archdiocese of Boston, the jurisdiction of Bernard Cardinal Law, who is in the forefront of a child sexual abuse controversy involving the cover-up of sexual abuse by a priest now in jail for molesting boys. The accusations against Cardinal Law involve other pedophile priests in his area who were protected by being moved from parish to parish, even though Cardinal Law knew of their behaviour."

The Pope confronts sexual abuse
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Don't Let Porn-Nabbers Steal Your Domain

A number of people and organizations that have allowed their domain registrations to lapse, even for a few hours, have had their domains whisked away and used for porn sites: churches, the Ballet Theater of Maryland, the Boston Philharmonic, to name a few of the unfortunates.

"All it takes is a few hours for a porn-napper to snap into action. Scores of companies, primarily based in the former Soviet Union, scour domain-name lists 24-7, looking for sites that have fallen into arrears. They plunk down about $35 per expired name, then redirect traffic toward an adult site that offers them per-visit kickbacks of a penny or two.

Unfortunately, it seems to be the most wholesome enterprises that get porn-napped; churches, in particular, tend to be rather remiss in renewing their domain names....A porn-napper's greatest hope is that you'll pay up the ying-yang to recover your beloved domain name....it can be a particularly "expensive lesson learned"—the bidding starts at $500, and high-traffic names go for several thousand bones."

Porn-napped!
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