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A new Canadian tool can re-grow teeth. Sorry about the Yahoo link. The article mentions using it to grow bones also. It doesn't mention this, but I'm wondering if it would help osteoporosis. If so, it could significantly help quality of life, and extend how long people can work and take care of themselves.
Later: here is a link that will likely be more permanent.
Supreme Court mostly endorses Texas Redistricting. I find it ominous that the one esception they made was District 23, which was evidently redrawn for political purposes, but in doing so put hispanics is another district, and the court said that part was illegal because it disadvantaged hispanics. Right when the VRA is up for renewal. Good timing, and I hope this gives Congress the cojones to put amendments into the VRA that it has needed for twenty years.
Supreme Court Rejects Military Tribunals. Okay, so our forces can hold them indefinitely, but cannot put them on trial, which would have at least the possibility of clearing them. Otherwise, they're in for a potentially long wait (A policy I agree with, by the way). Exactly how is this a victory for those who want the enemy combatants released?
Has anyone else figured out why these prisoners are in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as opposed to say, a base in Turkey or Central Asia or one of our remaining bases in Germany?
Here's a hint: Suppose one of the prisoners escapes. Where is he? What do you think Castro is going to do to him? Castro's political options reduce to repatriating them or making them disappear into a shallow grave somewhere. Much as he hates the US, what happens if someone he repatriates subsequently does something else terrorism related? Game, set, and match to the U.S.
Looks like Blackfive agrees.
How Failure Breeds Success. Prediction: The companies in the article who persist in being willing to swing and miss will stomp their competition. Most major companies who went under did so because they played it too safe. RCA developed the technology we use today for flat panel screens but were too concerned that it would take business and money away from what was their cash cow at the time, conventional color television sales. So someone else developed it, and instead of RCA getting the money, that someone else did, and their color TV division still lost the business. RCA is gone; they're just a nameplate someone else uses for branding.
Roots of human family tree are shallow. This always seemed obvious to me, but they've got mathematical models. I do wonder if they account for the fact that most people in the past were born, lived, and died in the same place.
USA Today retreats from BellSouth, Verizon report. This was journalism of fairy tales from the beginning. Ask yourself: how hard would the government have to work under existing legal programs that have the courts' approval? Why should public megacorporations agree to open themselves up to privacy act suits, costing millions to billions? The companies accused demanded a retraction. USA Today gave them the most miserly one they could get away with, on the Friday before a long weekend buried in the middle of the paper.
Stolen laptop with veterans data recovered. It says in part
"A preliminary review of the equipment by computer forensic teams has determined that the data base remains intact and has not been accessed since it was stolen," the agencies said in a statement. "A thorough forensic examination is underway, and the results will be shared as soon as possible."
Please, if you are one of those veterans, or may be, do not take their word for it. Take precautions now, or continue them if you have already done so.
via Q and O, Why are Muslims not integrating into Western societies?
I want to be able to integrate muslims into our civilization. Much evidence exists on both sides, depending upon, in my estimation, the will of the individuals and communities involved. If the muslims will integrate, they are the same as any other citizens. But if they will not willingly allow non-muslims the right to live their lives as they wish, then the community of moslems must be destroyed.
To automatically answer "Yes," to the question of whether muslims can integrate sufficiently into modern civilization is no more open-minded than to automatically answer "No." The fact is that the evidence runs both ways, the jury is still out, and it is most likely to return a mixed verdict.
Michael Totten has an article with some evidence in favor of "Yes."
Thank you to Wizbang for telling me about Let's Say Thanks, sponsored by Xerox. Pop on over and send a card or two or several dozen. I particularly liked Courtney's design.
My reasons for supporting Israel over the Palestinians are much the same as Jay Tea at Wizbang, to which I add the attitude of the respective sides. If the Palestinians were willing to settle for a state in Gaza and the West Bank, they'd have it by now. Whether they have admitted Israels' right to exist in legal theory (Fatah) or not (Hamas), they have made it their de facto policy to do their best to destroy Israel. The fact of that matter is that they exist on Israeli sufferance, a fact which they have found it convenient to ignore for decades.
Big Lizards has more.
Captain's Quarters has more worthwhile thoughts.
Iraq the Model notes that the Iraqi Prime Minister has clarified that his amnesty offer does not apply to those who have killed troops, be they Iraqi or foreign.
Yet another causus belli, if we want it:
US, Iraqi forces clash with Shi'ite militia
Iraqi security officials said Iranian fighters had been captured in the fighting, in which a sniper shot dead the commander of an Iraqi quick reaction force and two of his men. They did not say how the Iranians had been identified.
Captain's Quarters has more.
He's right. It's not foolproof, but accent is a valid method of identifying origins.
Traffic in June skyrocketed, enough so that I was questioning my server logs. Per day traffic almost doubled from May, which was my previous record. 124,033 visits, 265,160 page views for June, an average of 4000 per day, and a couple of days in the last week went over 6000. Running total 507,186 visits, 1,482,355 page views as of the end of June. But if it's not real, I can't find evidence, so I'll relax and enjoy it. Thank all of you for stopping by, a bigger thank you to those who participate, and especially thank you to those who spread the word.
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