Article for those of you still blaming American policy for 9/11

[shurato]

This is good news...although i dont think its quite as relevant to the topic title. I'm glad to hear things like this coming out of more high ranking muslim figures. Sigh...if only more would do the same...

 

[BaliBabyDoc]

Thomas Jefferson said "peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none..." He believed this was an essential pillar of government. I believe he was right then and now.

That's just too damn reasonable.

Qui desiderat pacem, preparet bellum. Vegetius

"To be prepared for War is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace."
President George Washington
first annual address to Congress, January 8, 1790

In pace, ut sapiens, aptarit idonea bello. Horace

Pansy Peacenik Christian
The most dangerous assumption is the one that is not realized as such. An assumption that is realized can be strengthened and improved in detail if it is true, and rejected if it is false. The one that is unstated offers the danger of not showing its full glory if it is true, and not offering itself for rejection if it is false. There is an often unrealized assumption that there are ultimately some situations where violence is the only way out (IE where God can't or won't use any other means), and furthermore that the choice is between violence and inaction (no other alternatives). Stating that it is an assumption neither proves nor disproves it, but does bring it to light - to consider and judge as an assumption.

The new law is to love your enemy as yourself, and to forgive the one who injures you seven times seventy, as per Matthew 18:22.

To establish peace, you do not merely ensure a lack of physical violence (particularly not through intimidation at your own superior capability for violence - "peace through strength" destroys what it wishes to establish), but rather work to remove all traces of hatred and injustice. Peace is not an absence, but the presence of love.

"The greatest of these is love." I Cor 13:13 Establish love and there will be peace.

 

[BaliBabyDoc]

never heard of anyone dying from Campylobacter

www.cdc.gov

reported cases 10,000
estimated total cases 2 million
estimated deaths 100 (typically very young, old, sick, or otherwise immunocompromised)

I think meat irradiation is a weak and enviromentally reckless solution to the problem of crap in meat. Line speed in slaughtering houses need to slow down, which would also help to curb the huge rate of injuries among the workers. Right now they're going as fast as possible with health as a secondary regard.

I'm not sure it is necessarily reckless to irradiate but your recommendation to more carefully inspect the meat visually (and surface analysis for pathogens) is certainly superior to zapping crap.