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Denver Date: Monday, January 5, 2009 Time: 5:30 pm Location: Hebrew Educational Alliance Street: 3600 South Ivanhoe, Denver New York Date: Tuesday, January 6, 2009 Time: 12:30 pm Location: Across from Israeli Consulate in New York Street: E 42nd Street @ 2nd Avenue Washington D.C. Date: Tuesday, January 6, 2009 Time: 12:30 pm Location: Outside Israeli Embassy Street: 3514 International Dr. NW Los Angeles Date: Tuesday, January 6, 2009 Time: 4:30 pm Location: In front of the Israeli Consulate in L.A. Street: La Jolla & Wilshire Los Angeles Date: Wednesday, January 7, 2009 Time: 12 pm - 2:00 pm Location: Federal Building in Westwood L.A. Street: Veteran and Wilshire StandWithUs, Bnei Akiva and the ILC in cooperation with the Jewish Federation of Los Angeles, and Jewish Day Schools across Los Angeles, invite you to STAND IN SUPPORT OF ISRAEL's RIGHT TO DEFEND ITSELF AGAINST HAMAS Washington D.C. Date: Wednesday, January 7, 2009 Time: 12:00 p.m. Location: Sixth & I Historic Syn...

While I believe prostitution is abuse - I commend Margie Burns for bringing attention to the very screwed-up priorities of the Justice System and our own myopic views. The sad suicide of Deborah Jeane Palfrey by Margie Burns The news yesterday that Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the so-called 'DC madam,' hanged herself in a shed on her mother's property, was sad and rattling. I did not cover her trial in DC, did not sit in on any of it or follow it particularly closely. But somehow her suicide feels closer to me than it rationally, objectively is. That may be partly because I did write about her famous client list a few times, earlier. My main interest was what effect, if any, the attacks of September 11, 2001, had on her business patterns. Answer: if anything, the burgeoning defense and security booms kicked off by those attacks probably helped her business over-all, at least in a diffuse way. Exploiting 9/11 has provided a gusher of funding, and the gusher has trickled down to th...

YOUR BRAIN - ON NEOCON PUNDITRY New Study of Talk Show Host Brains Calls For Compassion, Not Scorn by Steve Young "You Wouldn't Ridicule Someone With Parkinson's*, Then Why Mock Anyone With A Brain Disease," says a should be Nobel Prize winner A new study released by Bio-psychological Medicine (BM) Journal offers clear evidence that the brains of the radio/TV talk show host/pundit, thought to be synthetically influenced by environmental and partisan pressure, is fundamentally hardwired differently than the normal human brain due to in utero developmental malformation of the embryonic nervous system in the first three months of fetal development. (See: Rosemary Baby's brain) The study calls for a new category within the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) to cover the brain-behavioral syndrome (see map and legend below) with the oral and anal local ganglia, the term "Cephalinguanal Syndrome" (Ceph/Syn) is proposed by the research team due to d...

Bush Pays Surprise Visit to Reality (A little 'hump day' levity) President Calls Two-Hour Stop in Real World ‘Informative’ President George W. Bush departed from his planned itinerary this past Labor Day to make a surprise visit to reality, later calling the two-hour stop in the real world “informative.” For Mr. Bush, the visit to reality, while brief, was still significant because it represented his first visit to the real world since being elected President in 2000. “The President has not visited reality the entire time he’s been in the White House,” one aide said. “The closest he’s come is watching ‘Survivor.’” Mr. Bush touched down in the real world a little after dawn, delivering a brief address on the airport runway in which he attempted to put the best face on his relationship with reality, a relationship which has been frayed in recent years. But beneath the smiles and positive statements, Mr. Bush’s aides seemed well aware that the President’s relationship with reality...

Sex Scandals Rock Republicans, Washington Elites In the last 2 1/2 years, being an advocate for D.V. victims, I have learned more than I ever wanted to know about sex addiction. Personally, intimacy is now triggering to my PTSD and I no longer can even think about it. But if I stay detached and look at someone else's situation - I see a lot of common patterns. And I am better able to help those I work with. These patterns involve not only abuse of others, but sad self-abusive rituals as well. Its painfully easy to predict the pattern of lies and excuses addicts will use to cover their addiction. This addiction cuts through all class levels. However, I feel those with money and/or power are some of the worst offenders in lies and cover ups as well as rationalizing their reasons for looking the other way to sex-trafficking, soliciting and pandering. Another major factor, is overly religious types - particularly those who literally use their observancy to "cover" their ...