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MickC @ September 24, 2005 # One Comment
The Palestine Herald-Press asks the question: Where’s the Red Cross?
In times of crisis, the American Red Cross has always been there to step in and help, but not in Palestine’s and Anderson County’s time of need for evacuees of Hurricane Rita.
When emergency shelters need to be set up, the Red Cross sends a trained volunteer [...]
MickC @ September 21, 2005 # Comments Off
One thing that hasn’t gotten a lot of attention lately is how to deal with debt reduction after a natural disaster strikes. I’ve tried to do that here: Debt Reduction & Natural Disasters
Obviously, you cannot stick your head in the sand and pretend that it could not happen to you. The time to prepare [...]
MickC @ September 21, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Some time back I made some pointed remarks concerning the Lancet’s publication of a paper in late October 2004. By mid-November I was called upon to defend my criticism of the paper’s publication as political propaganda, which I did, and I would like to think with some success.
While surfing around yesterday I happened to [...]
MickC @ September 14, 2005 # 2 Comments
Blue Security Announces Initial Success of Do Not Intrude Registry; Nearly 30,000 Users Join Public Beta with Reports of More than 50-Percent Reductions in Spam
It’s your typical marketing tripe, sure, but it is very interesting to notice that they have quotes from a professor of ethics:
“Internet users have the ethical right to opt-out from receiving [...]
MickC @ September 3, 2005 # 6 Comments
Of all of the stupid things to say, the following by Randall Robinson takes the cake.
It is reported that black hurricane victims in New Orleans have begun eating corpses to survive. Four days after the storm, thousands of blacks in New Orleans are dying like dogs. No-one has come to help them.
I am a sixty-four [...]
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