Blogula Rasa

So here's what's going on this week around here:

Busy at work, but not as crazed as last week.
Thinking about sick friends and considering how best to help
Keeping only half an eye on the news
Fooling around with iPod more (David got me a dock!)
Putting off on uploading more photos to Flickr
Getting ready to travel again Real [...]

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Anglican Communion News Service>[ENS] In response to the United States’ proposed revisions to UN poverty-reduction strategies - as reported in today’s
More info: Accessing the NY Times archive through their RSS feeds.New York Times and Washington Post - the Most Rev. Frank T. Griswold, Presiding Bishop and Primate of the Episcopal Church, issued the following [...]

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Teenager Takes Petition To Downing Street
A British teen is taking 2,000 signed petition cards to Downing Street in London in an effort to keep attention focused on world poverty. It came out of an event sponsored by the Church of England, which has reasons of its own to keep the MakePovertyHistory movement going. What with [...]

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BBC NEWS | Africa | Niger children starving to death
Hey, remember that country where Joseph Wilson didn’t find a plot to sell yellowcake uranium to the Iraqis? Children are still starving there in droves.
Drought and a plague of locusts are part of the cause, but one mother says, “As far as I’m concerned, God [...]

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So thanks then, terrorists. You’ve just succeeded in bringing the families of millions of Londoners that bit closer together, giving them an increased love of their city and an enhanced appreciation of their way of life. You might have destroyed the lives of several hundred people, but – and this is stating the bloody obvious [...]

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