Cindy's Blog
My home on the web since 1995
Category: Society
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First official death toll release by the Haitian government on Friday following the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12, 2010. Deadliest Earthquakes arranged by Death Toll, Event, Location and Date: 830,000 1556 Shaanxi earthquake China 1556 250,000 526 Antioch earthquake Antioch, Byzantine Empire (now Turkey) 526 242,000 1976 Tangshan earthquake China 1976…
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The American people are not getting the change we wanted when we elected Barrack Obama president, at least when it comes to the mess of our health care system. True, there are a few regulations in the Senate bill that will help protect some Americans against the nasty ways of the private insurance companies. There…
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The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not. –Ludwig Wittgenstein Happiest Countries 1. Denmark 2. Puerto Rico 3. Colombia 4. Iceland 5. North Ireland 6. Ireland 7. Switzerland 8. Netherlands 9. Canada 10. Austria 11. El Salvador 12. Malta 13. Luxemburg 14. Sweden 15. New Zeland…
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This past weekend, 39 House Democrats voted against the health care reform bill. It’s not surprising that 31 of the 39 defectors came from districts carried by John McCain in the presidential election. Here is an interactive graphic table from the New York Times that shows some interesting numbers: House Democrats Who Voted Against the…
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These days, we are over-saturated with news 24/7. Sometimes it’s hard to distinguish facts from hype. There has been plenty in the news about H1N1 (Swine Flu), but I honestly didn’t pay much attention to it. Remember all the hype surrounding the Bird Flu? Then all of a sudden, some sort of flu-like virus started…