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YOU MAY RECALL WHERE, YESTERDAY, IT WAS NOTED IN PASSING WHERE REV. FRED "WESTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH" PHELPS WAS MAKING A CIVIL RIGHTS CASE out of the fire therein on Saturday evening, causing some US$10,000 damage (which Rev. Phelps' spin machine exaggerateth by a factor of three) and claiming (if we are to believe this excuse for a hatemonger) that said fire was motivated by opposition to the Traditional Christian Teachings held dear by Westboro Baptist.

I, for one, would not accept that as reasonable grounds for a civil-rights enquiry; methinks, as I said, such is nothing but a distraction serving only to distract arson investigators "off the scent" of suspicion that the Phelps family set the whole thing up as a way to make quick money in the face of current and serious financial problems on their part.

Let alone the prospect of their assets being, in significant measure, "judgement-proof" by way of offshore banks and "pure trusts" serving only their own sefish desires--and claiming that the Greater Glory of G-d justifies such actions, along with the usual about "the ends justifying the means."

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"THERE BUT FOR THE GRACE OF G-D GO I" DEPARTMENT: UNICEF, the United Nations childrens' aid agency, has come out with a new report taking the developing economies of China and India to task for not doing enough to provide decent and adequate health care for children as their economies develop full-on, with obvious risks for worsening disparities between rich and poor.

Of particular note is where India is faulted for having 1.6 million infant deaths in 2006 for want of adequate medical care in especially poor or undeveloped areas; over the same period, China reported some 400,000 cases of infant deaths.

Still, though, one needs to consider where, in China's case, much of the socioeconomic throughput was diverted towards the Beijing Olympic Games and construction of related venues and infrastructure while many millions in rural areas remain in direst (and, perhaps, deliberate) poverty and ignorance socioeconomically.

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HAS CNN HEADLINE NEWS CRIME REPORTER NANCY GRACE BEEN TOO AGGRESSIVE IN "STATING HER CASE" on her nightly programme?

@ least one suspect's estate thinks so: A suspect in a rather infamous child-abduction case a few years back is suing Ms. Grace and CNN Headline News for aggravated emotional harm and distress through her stylee of questioning as caused the suspect to eventually take The Other Way Out.

Not bad for the same network as has conservative blatherskite Glenn Beck preceding Nancy Grace's show during "stellar season" (otherwise known as their prime-time selection), and yet Mr. Beck shares much the same appeal among the Lower Classes as Bill O'Reilly on Fox Prolefeed.

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IT LOOKS AS THOUGH THE TERRIBLE-TEMPERED MR. BANG MAY HAVE THE LAST LAUGH WHEN IT COMES TO EQUATING DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL WANNABE BARACK OBAMA with heiress and "media distractionary" Paris Hilton in that rather laughable farce of a "winning of hearts and minds" TV ad:

Ms. Hilton's mother has taken John McCain's campaign team to task for what she sees as "improper exploitation" of her daughter's image and repute to the point of causing psychoemotional embarrassment and humiliation just to win over votes among trailer-park trash and suchlike others watching Fox Prolefeed to the point of dependency, (un)consciously (un)aware all along of Fox Prolefeed's unhealthy tendencies galore.

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AND DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THAT ESCALATOR IN JAPAN AS WOUND UP RUNNING BACKASSWARDS THANKS TO OVERCROWDING ON THE OVERNIGHT, with ten people injured in the process?

If you don't believe me, see the video for yourself:

(On the other hand, I wouldn't recommend this as one for Rip Li.)