Politics and religion.

[blue]

So if someone stands on their head back to front, are they left or right or upside down backwards ????

Are they looking into a mirror thats facing a mirror?

[wombat2u2004]

Are they looking into a mirror thats facing a mirror?

Only the right off center people.
The center off left people would be right of the mirror, and can't see left.

[lizbud]

If somebody goes far enough to the right, don't they eventually become left?

[Grace]

If somebody goes far enough to the right, don't they eventually become left?

Left behind, perhaps

[Grace]

Time for some happy political news -

From CNN -

U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords, recovering from a gunshot wound to the head sustained January 8, is regaining part of her ability to speak, her spokesman said Wednesday.

C.J. Karamargin would not divulge what Giffords has said, other than saying she asked for toast.

"It's very good news," he told CNN.

And from the same source -

Mark Kelly told reporters on Friday that he expects Giffords to witness Endeavour's launch, scheduled for April 19. With NASA planning to retire the shuttle fleet, this is expected to be Endeavour's last mission.

"I have every intention for her to be at the launch," Kelly said.

[wombat2u2004]

If somebody goes far enough to the right, don't they eventually become left?

If blue wandered too far right, he'd fall into a crevasse, and then he'd be left.

[blue]

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.

[wombat2u2004]

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.

[RICHARD]

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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I do love fireworks and flares.

[RICHARD]

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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[RICHARD]

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



http://www.aolnews.com/2011/02/12/a-...1_lnk3%7C43655



Naw, I can dream tho.....

[phesina]

Oh, my goodness.. God love 'em.

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

[Grace]

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.