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ONCE AGAIN, TARDINESS BECAUSE OF PRIOR COMMITMENTS @ THE MOTEL I DO FOR (AS IN USING THE LEAF BLOWER TO CLEAN UP THE LOT) is the order of the day, reader; hence, I would appreciate your patience and understanding in this respect.

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IF THERE'S A LESSON WORTH LEARNING FROM INDECISION 2009 AS CAN BE APPLIED TO INDECISION 2010 (especially when you consider easy Republican wins in the New Jersey and Virginia governors' races, not to mention Democratic victories in special Congressional elections in California and New York and Maine voters endorsing "patriotic" homophobia), it would have to be this:

Videlicet, redoubling any and all efforts to win over especially younger, lower-income and National Minority voters in voter-registry drives and @ the polls--especially so when the Secular-Progressive agenda is all the more important. And also taking challenge to conservative campaigns of voter suppression, intimidation and harrassment which they can easily excuse as "protecting electoral purity and integrity", not to mention being pro Deo et patria in case they're sent a Please Explain Letter.

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WHICH LEADS INTO NEWS THAT THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT, DEN HAAG (NL), is sending investigators into Kenya to look into the root causes of the infamous post-electoral violence following their 2007 Presidential elections as led to wholesale slaughter and mayhem, with an eye towards possible action under International Law for Crimes Against Humanity.

Especially the involvement of, and interconnexions with, police and other high-level officials and their acting as agents provocateur when it came to the worst atrocities thereof.

And come to think of it, you can just imagine our "morally superior" extremists seeing electoral interference as one with Moral and Patriotic Duty drooling in their Luscious Glory @ the revelations ensuing--not just in Kenya, but also @ the September rallies in Guinea which resulted in stampedes, rape and Extreme Ultraviolence, in turn translating into international sanctions by the United States, the United Nations and the European Union against the military regime.

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WHAT EXACTLY WAS IT THAT PROMPTED GENERAL MOTORS TO ANNOUNCE ITS ABOUT-FACE ON THE SALE OF ITS EUROPEAN OPERATIONS (as in the Opel and Vauxhall nameplates), in effect retaining its presence in Europe @ the expense of the likelihood of 12,000 jobs in Germany being cut as part of wholesale restructuring likely ensuing?

(Luckily, the Vauxhall operations in England's Green and Pleasant Land remain safe, what with the unions @ its two assembly plants welcoming the likelihood of restructuring.)

But then again, maybe it was time to ask about its Australian operations, General Motors Holden by name and stylee, and how such is being afflicted by GM's current restructuring.

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IN THE INTEREST OF CUTTING OFF MAJOR FINANCING AND REVENUE STREAMS FOR WEIRD AND UNWHOLESOME ELEMENTS VIS-A-VIS THE DIAMOND TRADE, the major diamond-producing centres have developed an international convention known as the Kimberly Process; the better to track the sourcing of diamonds from mines to cutters to jewellers.

Now, it looks like the Kimberly Process has its target set on the ZANU-PF regime of Robert Mugabe down Zimbabwe way, especially so in light of reports that police control of diamond mines in Zimbabwe is being used to finance ZANU-PF's corrupt and evil ways (disguised all the while as "hard currency reserves" for the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe).

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AS WE ALL KNOW, BOYS AND GIRLS, THE AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION'S 1972 ANNUAL CONVENTION removed homosexuality from the list of Serious Mental Aberrations Best Responsive to Treatment and Therapy.

Never mind the Elmer Gantry Institute for Religiopolitical Theology begging to differ all the while, as in invoking Biblical Majesty and Authority to insist that homosexuals are Freaks and Travesties of Nature and homosexuality as a Perversion of the Natural Order.

I mention this because the Health Ministry of the People's Republic of China has announced that the use of corporal punishment to deal with the non-disease of "Internet Addiction," especially among Impressionable Youth, in so-called "Corrective Schools" run along military boot-camp lines is to be prohibited; this on top of a July decree proscribing electroshock therapy in furtherance.

This the byproduct of the martyrdom of Deng Senshan (15), who died sadistically less than a day following his arrival for "rehabilitation" @ the so-called "Qihang Salvation Training Camp" somewhere in Guangxi Province ... and the near-such about a fortnight later of Pu Liang (14) following his sadistic beating and hazing by the principal and fellow inmates of a similar Corrective School.

As the ministry hath it in draft guidance received by Reuters (and, ultimately, quoted by the BBC), "When intervening to prevent improper use of the Internet we should ... strictly prohibit restriction of personal freedom and physical punishments"; the ultimate goal being, again quoting the draft guidance note, "to urge the target[ed] people to use the Internet in a healthy way." (For "healthy," as used here, read "goodthoughtful.") 

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"...and that is is a way."