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Dear lord. Qatar to Use Robots As Camel Riders … Spurring the robots’ development has been vehement condemnation from human rights groups of the sport’s regular jockeys. Activists say there are about 40,000 boy jockeys, some as young as 4, who are either bought from their parents or kidnapped from their home countries and taken to the Gulf to ride.

drenilop has some interesting thoughts on Pope B16 here.

German Doctrinal Overseer Ratzinger Elected Pope Tue Apr 19, 2005 12:56 PM ET VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the strict defender of Catholic orthodoxy for the past 23 years, was elected Pope on Tuesday despite a widespread assumption he was too old and divisive to win election. …. But he sounded very much the candidate before going

“You are in here for committing journalism,” he said. “If you have a pen, you might commit journalism again.” I’m trying hard to fight off the urge to make some snarky remark about how American reporters are less likely with each passing day to be charged with committing journalism. [THX: Paul Barrow of the Brit Expatriate Desk.]

Aaron Butler of the Indiana Law Desk suggested I investigate Fafblog. Three entries down I hit this: “As all bodhisattvas of the supply side understand, progressive income tax is an assault against entrepreneurship, taxing the wealthy at higher rates than the poor and therefore providing a disincentive to be rich. Indeed, we all remember the day Bill Gates and Warren

The selection committee is packed with idiots. How the hell can they bump Ratzinger all the way down to a SIX SEED?! He’s #1 in the RPI (Ratings Papacy Index) and had a top five strength of schedule. Duke is overrated, as usual.

I xposted my India/Pakistan comments to a few communities, and poldy jumped in on with this: Of the several topics raised here, I would like to turn to the last – the crisis in education. those workers in Bangalore […] were raised in a culture that made funding education a priority in policy while in the US we were making

I am: Arthur C. Clarke Well known for nonfiction science writing and for early promotion of the effort toward space travel, his fiction was often grand and visionary. Which science fiction writer are you?

[A brief caveat: this first part isn’t in my primary areas of expertise, so the following is even more open to correctives than most of what I write. Also, this commentary is going to roam far and wide – please bear with me….] India, Pakistan to Revive Joint Business Commission April 17 (Bloomberg) — India and Pakistan agreed to restart

YOU, my friend, are 100% Canadian! You are whatCanadians are all about! (and that’s about, nota boot.) You, my friend, are AWESOME! How Canadian Are You? brought to you by Quizilla

Looks like Chris Paul is going pro. No huge surprise in that. I believe CP3 could do with another year in school, but I can’t say with any conviction at all that another year with Prosser would be better than a year in the NBA. I fear that Skip is letting too many bad habits go uncorrected – you know,

You may have noted that Eric Rudolph, the guy who bombed the Olympics in 1996 and a Birmingham abortion clinic in 1998 (killing one and maiming another) has pleaded guilty in order to avoid the death penalty (and you can contemplate the irony of the “pro-life” warrior passing on a chance to make a real point with his own execution

And don’t you forget it. _______________________________ The Usurper You scored 63% Cardinal, 23% Monk, 20% Lady, and 54% Knight! You have both the lust for war of the Knight and the wicked morals of the Cardinal. You are truly a dangerous one who likes power and will stop at nothing to get it. If the king dares stand in the

My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Brother Shining Broadsword of Forgiving Harmony. What’s yours? Verily, I am uncomfortable with the “forgiving” part, but this is the name Brother Unitarian Jihad Name Generating Engine gave me, and he is wise.