Alot of people avoid the question of what options does Israel have by saying look at the kill ratio - 1 dead Jew is x dead Palestinians -- that proves they are evil!! Yet never giving Israel on option on how to end the bombing of their homes and schools, that hasn't been tried before, and failed, because the Palestinians refused the offer, or did take it and didn't keep up their end. They keep chanting the death ratio without giving any real options -- just that Israel stop, even through the bombs keep falling on their homes, as if a single person making that request would tolerate a daily bombing of their city -- who the fuck cares if rarely kills anyone, it does occasionally, and that is no way to live, and no one on this board would live that way. Ranting without a solution that is reasonable is a sign of slogan without thinking syndrome.

So the USA vs Iraq causality rate of civilians is a lot worse than the Israeli vs Gazan ratio -- how many civilians in Iraq 200000 to 600000(depending on who is counting US military vs other sources) vs 4000+ USA soldiers. Hey the Israeli's are falling way behind, or they are incredibly better at avoiding civilians than we are ..why are we not ranting about ending the war? Why are there more support of Gaza rallies then end the Iraq war rallies? Because it is easier to bitch about other peoples governments - then to take responsibility for your own, hey Americans, end your own damn war against civilians who never even bombed a single American home - before you go complaining about another government. Oh, no that means you might have to do something other than complain on blogs.

And hey folks remember Gaza has more than one boarder -- why no pressure on Egypt to open its boarder?? No only the bad Jews. Folks the Egyptians don't want the Palestinians in their country or to have an open boarder with them, and neither does Jordan or Lebanon -- perhaps because they think poorly of them - perhaps because all those countries think the Palestinians are terrorist, and cause to much trouble in their countries -- they all want the Palestinians to be Israels problem because they don't want the problem. So how did this become all the Israels problem? Why isn't this the Egyptian/Israel problem -- because the anti-Jewish teachings of the middle east helps keep corrupt regimes in power in the Middle East -- if they didn't have Israel to complain about, most those governments would fall -- it is the ultimate wag the dog... the solution is for the rest of Middle East to get its act together, and want a real solution, which it doesn't, so there is no peace.

He didn't' come out blatantly in support.

He did have a debate in an Evangelical Church whose minister is going to do the invocation at the swearing in - he has gone out of his way to say and show he is religious and not scary to the religious right. He can and does take the left for granted - this is what it means to be in the middle I guess.

Odds are , he won't overturn any of the laws under Bush, or put them in the agenda -- he has more important things to do, like his staff member said when asked about action on the don't tell, don't ask policy of the military. The only upside, is that the President won't be putting out or lobbying for any more new restrictions, but someone is living in happy Obama land, if they think he is going to put in the effort to undo what Bush has done.

This is why women lag in every measurement in the US.

This is why girls don't take math and become Engineers like they do in India, Russia, hell in Iraq....

Because we are such losers, we think fashion is important.

Fashion was invented to delineate class - to make it possible to recognize someone from your own class, most countries had laws about what was legal for certain types of people -- ie can't wear yellow or purple - reserved for the highest of the nobles...ect

This obsession just proves how stupid we are as Americans -- fashion and looks before brains, no wonder we are going down the tubes.

The deal is the Provider Conscience is in play - ie not stopped by Obama and may protect the Nurse from any lawsuit - it was after the whole purpose of the Provider Conscience, to protect anyone in health care over their treatment of patients related to reproduction.

The work quote on 2/3 of world work was from Human Development Report" and the presentation of the report at the UN International Women's Conference in Beijing --

It contended that women the world over worked as many hours as men outside the home, but in addition were the primary care for home plots(farming) caring for the home, childcare, medical (this includes the poorest countries, without medical systems) care, gathering of cooking fuel and gathering of water (ie have to go get it - not in home) in addition for being primary care takers of land and home, it also noted that in many countries women were not allowed to own - and usually had no claims to the land they farmed, or the homes they lived in. There are a lot more of these poor families then wealthy ones so they change the stats, because men and women in 1st world countries are not so far apart on hours.