The REAL graveyard of the Atlantic

no it's not the Bermuda triangle, but Sable Island, located 180km SE of NovaScotia, says StrangeMapBlog.
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the island is actually a large sand bar in an area wih frequent storms and fog...over 350 ships are known to have been destroyed by shipwreck on the island..

This is for cat lovers only

Did you know there is a website to ask for prayers for your sick cat?

Major Korean Cyberwar is going on

North Korea is attacking South Korean and US Government computers with a trojan horse.

Didn't Tom Clancy predict something like this?

and they ridiculed W for including North Korea as one of the "axis of evil"...

Local products for tradefairs

From tradefair cabanatuan july 4 2009

some of our products.

we sell organic rice, sponsor workshops for growing organic vegetables, and design and sell hand made capiz shell flowers and lamps.

Recipe of the Week

HuggingTheCoast has a bunch of Gourmet Grilled Cheese sandwiches for you to try.

and no I haven't eaten one since I moved here, although we can get processed cheese or Cheezewhiz here...no frying pan however, only woks...


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on the other hand, if you want a Filipino recipe, try Oxtail Adobo, at Patis andPate blog.

Lasagna take three

see more Lolcats and funny pictures

Family news

We are well. The help is sick. Christina and Chano are sick...all of them probably have the flu. Thunderstorm so not too much computer time.

But there is good news: the white kittens are starting to walk around...almost stepped on them when I brought mom her food.

Protest with a Rose

Keep quiet under all circumstances, the circular advises those planning to march in Thursday's unauthorized demonstrations in Iran cities.

"The heaviest weapon to carry is one rose in the hand," it says.

discussion site here

Swine flu has arrived

I had a mild case of the flu last weekend (as did Lolo). Since the swine flu is the same one that was around in the late 1970's, we probably had it then and still have some immunity.



This link has a short video.
In the US they treat high risk people with anti virals, but these are expensive and only shorten and make the flu less severe. So here in the Philippines, they aren't being used except in the very sick.

Gift item of the day

For the one you love:

A HELLOKITTY Taser
(via HellokittyHell)

News below the fold

The Pope has issued an encyclical.
(word version download Here

The NYTimes summarizes
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Negotiate with Hamas? Michael Totten interviews Jeffrey Goldberg:

Goldberg: .... it’s very important – and you know this better than almost anyone – to go over there yourself and tape it, get it down on paper, and say “this is what they actually say.”
... But (I) take them at their word. I believe Hamas when it says it wants to eradicate Israel. Why shouldn’t I believe them?

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Two million refugees from the Swat valley may go home soon.
They need aid but donors know most of the aid money will end up in the bank accounts of local politicians.

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Swine flu cases up to 90,000...

Rice Paddy Art

Pink TentacleBlog has even more photos of rice paddy art. He writes:

As summer progresses, crops of rice paddy art are beginning to emerge in Japan. The crop art — created by strategically arranging and growing different colors of rice plants — can be seen in farming communities across the country.

Many of the photos are also HERE

Stuff below the fold

correcting cliches: HNN Blog points out that the seige of Vienna included Protestants and other Christians fighting on the side of the Ottoman army.
And a lot of folks back then thought that the Ottoman was a good foil to keep the Austrian empire in it's place.

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GetReligionBlog discusses "The Voice" of the Iranian revolution: some photos show her wearing a cross...


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Michael Yon has a long article on the Philippines war in the south.

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Will Inspector Generals in the US now be political appointments?

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Did Joe Biden essentially Okay an Israeli take out of Iranian bomb making sites? And it sounds like the Saudis were okay with the deal, at least until a UK newspaper spilled the beans.

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Audiobook download of the day

Librivox has for download a selection of short stories for the young at heart.

It includes such classics as: The Cat that Walked by Himself by Kipling, The Gift of the Magi by OHenry, and Pigs is Pigs, by Butler.

This is not an insomnia download because the stories might keep you awake...

Another day, another volcano

Not near here, but the beautiful Mayon Volcano is showing signs of another eruption.

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but there is a lot of other news here in the Philippines.

the MILF bombed a Catholic church in the south,
our ex president Cory is dying in the hospital,
our nurses working in Saudi just got a salary increase,

and the really big news item that has everyone talking:

Did Gloria get a new boob implant, or just a biopsy as her secretary insists?

Good News for today

Coffee could be the next treatment for Alzheimers....
Dr Gary Arendash, an American neuroscientist, claims to have uncovered evidence that caffeine not only helps to stave off the disease but can treat it.

A key aspect of Alzheimer's is sticky clumps of an abnormal protein in the brain called beta amyloid plaques.
Mice with a rodent equivalent of the disease showed a 50 per cent reduction in levels of amyloid protein in their brains after the scientists added caffeine to their drinking water.


Here in the Philippines, they often promote coffee for it's health benefits.

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moar funny pictures

Musical interlude for today

I hope this is good news

the clerics in Qom are backing the people.

Family news

I have a cold and am staying in bed...

Joy is at a trade fair.

Stuff below the fold

PentimentoBlog discusses time travel and Madeline L'Engle's book A wrinkle in Time.
(headsup TeaAtTrianon)