Posts Tagged ‘ nnoc ’

Join Nurses In Protest Against Profit-Hungry Insurance Industry

Jun 14th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Health

Members of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC) are fighting back against insurance companies that care more about profits than people.
CNA/NNOC members, nurses, doctors, patients and Americans of every stripe will join in a national day of protest against insurance companies June 19. In more than 15 cities from Baltimore to Pittsburgh to [...]



The Myth Of The Perfect Supreme Court

Jun 2nd, 2008 | By admin | Category: Opinion

Republicanism in this country is the aloofness of the Supreme Court from the political departments and its superior respectability compared to the accommodating availability of the President of the Philippines and Congress to the importunate electorate and their dependence on its capricious goodwill.
I had a colleague on the Court who during the more than eight [...]



Troubled Book World Is Going For Novel Ideas

May 31st, 2008 | By admin | Category: News

Clusters of TV and computer screens beam chatty videos about cooking, travel and wellness books. A music kiosk lets visitors download MP3s or burn CDs, while another offers tips on how to publish your own novel.
Welcome to the newly opened Borders bookstore in Southbury, Conn., which looks less like a traditional branch of the nation’s [...]



Off The Rack Entertainment

May 18th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Entertainment

Cover: While Nicole Richie is stuck at home supervising the care and feeding of baby Harlow, Harlow’s daddy is out partying up a storm with the likes of Lindsay Lohan. Nicole is in tears. And, as you well know, someone of Nicole’s size is in constant danger of dehydration from just the slightest bit of [...]



If the plastic shoe fits

Apr 15th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Entertainment

Its a good sign for me when this is my biggest gripe on a Monday morning but, really, does anyone else think this is a good idea? Fashion is not my singular concern, but I know what I like and I know what looks ridiculous %26mdash; and that is a jandal that masquerades as a [...]



If the plastic shoe fits

Apr 15th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Entertainment

Its a good sign for me when this is my biggest gripe on a Monday morning but, really, does anyone else think this is a good idea? Fashion is not my singular concern, but I know what I like and I know what looks ridiculous %26mdash; and that is a jandal that masquerades as a [...]



Tshirts memorialize victims of violence

Apr 10th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Fashion

“It’s not just a shirt,” she said, smiling.
These memorial T-shirts are a celebration of life, an expression of grief, or a warning to killers, depending on what’s on the shirt and who’s wearing it, makers and buyers said.
This year, 29 people have been murdered in Orange County. As the Orlando area’s streak of record violence [...]



Reducing your sin profile on the farm

Apr 7th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Entertainment

When you strap your rams into their harnesses, or turn a bull out amongst your cows, you are encouraging their sinfulness to line your pockets. The lambs you harvest, the milk you produce %26mdash; all is predicated on the sin of lust.
No doubt you are also depending on your livestock to exhibit plenty of gluttony [...]



George Clooney held at gunpoint

Apr 7th, 2008 | By admin | Category: Health

The Hollywood star - who filmed documentary A Journey to Darfur with his father Nick Clooney about Sudans crises - revealed he was robbed by children brandishing AK47 rifles as he passed through a vehicle checkpoint in the North African country in 2006.
He said: We were in southern Sudan and going through a checkpoint and [...]



Tibetans dispute claims of no riot deaths

Apr 1st, 2008 | By admin | Category: Information

Chinas official Xinhua news agency reported overnight that police shot and wounded four protesters this week in a heavily ethnic Tibetan part of the province, where protests broke out after anti-Chinese riots in neighbouring Tibet a week ago.
The unrest has alarmed China, keen to look its best in the run-up to the August 8-24 Olympic [...]