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    Quote Originally Posted by wombat2u2004 View Post
    So if someone stands on their head back to front, are they left or right or upside down backwards ????
    And what if their whole COUNTRY is upside down?
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    Quote Originally Posted by phesina View Post
    And what if their whole COUNTRY is upside down?
    We ARE upside down here.
    That's why we prefer our women to wear skirts.
    Didn't you know that already ????

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    Quote Originally Posted by wombat2u2004 View Post
    If blue wandered too far right, he'd fall into a crevasse, and then he'd be left.
    I have glacier training, it was part of Mountaineering 201. Aussieland doesnt have glaciers though, so Im actually impressed you know what a crevasse is, good show.
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    Quote Originally Posted by blue View Post
    I have glacier training, it was part of Mountaineering 201. Aussieland doesnt have glaciers though, so Im actually impressed you know what a crevasse is, good show.
    We did have glaciers, about half a million years ago.
    But I can't remember back that far.

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    Watching the Egypt coverage and cannot believe that the intel services here in the U.S. got it wrong.

    Imagine if we had to deal with a country with Weapons of Mass Destruction.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RICHARD View Post
    Watching the Egypt coverage and cannot believe that the intel services here in the U.S. got it wrong.

    Imagine if we had to deal with a country with Weapons of Mass Destruction.
    Yes, just imagine

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    Quote Originally Posted by Grace View Post
    Yes, just imagine
    Can I have a few minutes to get my thoughts in order?

    MSNBC is reporting that Mubarak is in talks to take over KO's old spot on the network.
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    Quote Originally Posted by lizbud View Post
    If somebody goes far enough to the right, don't they eventually become left?
    Only on the globe.

    If you do a regular "number-line" scenario, highly unlikely.



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    Do you think that us Mur-I-cuhns would ever undertake a 'job' like this? The symbolicism is probably way too heavy for us.



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    Oh, my goodness.. God love 'em.

    Good on you, EGYPTIANS!!!!! You ROCK!
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    Good News

    From the AP-

    PHOENIX – Rep. Gabrielle Giffords can walk while holding onto a cart, mouth the lyrics to easy songs and have simple conversations, according to family, staff and her doctors.

    Mark Kelly said in an interview broadcast Monday on NBC that he can ask his wife questions and she can respond.

    "The communication is coming back very quickly," he said.

    Kelly said she is trying so hard that her speech therapist, who only a few days ago was trying to get her to talk more, is now asking Giffords to slow down and make sure she hears the question before giving an answer.

    As an example, Kelly spoke of a time when the therapist had three cards on a table, one with a picture of George W. Bush, one with a picture of President Barack Obama and another with an image of George Washington.

    "Before she was asked a question, she'd picked up the card and held it up and said 'George Bush,'" Kelly told NBC's Brian Williams. "She's a hard worker and she's trying. She's speaking a lot and at some level they are asking her to slow down a little bit."

    The New York Times, citing doctors and her staff, reported on its website late Sunday that Giffords' efforts to relearn how to speak have included mouthing song lyrics, such as "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" and "Happy Birthday to You," as friends and family sang along.

    Giffords also briefly spoke with her brother-in-law Scott Kelly by telephone Sunday afternoon as he orbited aboard the International Space Station.

    "She said, hi, I'm good," her chief of staff, Pia Carusone, told the paper. He is the brother of Giffords' husband, who is also an astronaut.

    She has also been receiving bedside briefings from aides on the recent uprising in Egypt and on last week's decision by Republican Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona not to seek re-election,

    "We tell her everything that's going on," Carusone said. "Don't get the idea she's speaking in paragraphs, but she definitely understands what we're saying and she's verbalizing."

    Giffords was shot in the head Jan. 8 while meeting with constituents outside a Tucson grocery store. Six people, including a 9-year-old girl and a federal judge, were killed in the attack, and 13 others, including Giffords, were wounded.

    The congresswoman began intensive rehabilitation at TIRR Memorial Hermann in Houston late last month. The Times reported that an e-mail sent to friends about a week ago by Giffords' mother said that Giffords has been doing squats and repetitive motions to build her muscles and walking through the hospital's halls while holding onto a cart.

    The 40-year-old Giffords has beaten one of her nurses at tic-tac-toe and has changed from "kind of a limp noodle" to someone who is "alert, sits up straight with good posture," the e-mail from Gloria Giffords said.

    Doctors said in late January that they planned to insert a speaking valve into her tracheostomy — a tube inserted into Giffords' throat to assist her breathing immediately after the shooting. Her doctors have not said whether that procedure took place or whether the tube was removed since she no longer needs it.

    Rehabilitation specialists say brain injury patients who regain speech typically begin to do so about four to six weeks after the incident. Several news organizations reported last week that Giffords asked for toast with her breakfast one recent morning.

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    Quite a difference between Egypt and Iran's response to citizen protests.

    http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/...x.html?hpt=T2#
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    NEW YORK - CBS News correspondent Lara Logan was recovering in a U.S. hospital Tuesday from a sexual attack and beating she sustained while reporting on the tumultuous events in Cairo.

    Logan was in the city's Tahrir Square on Friday after Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak stepped down when she, her team and their security "were surrounded by a dangerous element amidst the celebration," CBS said in a statement Tuesday.

    The network described a mob of more than 200 people "whipped into a frenzy."

    Separated from her crew in the crush of the violent pack, she suffered what CBS called "a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating." She was saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers, the network said. The Associated Press does not name victims of a sexual assault unless the victim agrees to it.

    She reconnected with the CBS team and returned to the U.S. on Saturday.

    The scene last Friday in Tahrir Square - ground zero of 18 days of protests that brought down Mubarak - was primarily one of celebration - people wept, jumped for joy, cheered and hugged one another. Some soldiers stationed at the square ran into the crowd, and the protesters lifted them onto their shoulders. Other troops stayed at their posts, watching in awe. There were fireworks, the sound of car horns and even some shots fired in the air.

    The attack on Logan, CBS News' chief foreign affairs correspondent, is one of at least 140 others suffered by reporters covering the unrest in Egypt since Jan. 30, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. An Egyptian reporter died from gunshot wounds he received during the protests.

    A week before Friday's attack, Logan was detained by the Egyptian military for a day, along with two CBS cameramen. They returned to the U.S. after their release, and Logan went back to Cairo shortly before Mubarak left.

    Logan joined CBS News in 2002. She regularly reports for the "CBS Evening News" as well as "60 Minutes," where she has been a correspondent since 2006. She has reported widely from Iraq and Afghanistan, and other global trouble spots.

    CBS said it had no further comment on Logan's assault.



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    Are we still getting the full unbiased story of what is going on in Egypt?
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    Quote Originally Posted by blue View Post
    Are we still getting the full unbiased story of what is going on in Egypt?


    What do you think?
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    I have two questions about the stuff going on in Wisconsin. Apparently, the Democrats have gone into hiding to avoid voting on a bill they don't like. SO:
    1. Why do they still get paid for not doing their jobs?

    2. Who is paying the bill for the hotel across the state line where they are 'hiding out'?

    Just wondering.
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