New Design Could Transform 1st Bike Ride - Yahoo! News

New Design Could Transform 1st Bike Ride - Yahoo! News

Cool!

Scientists Say Everyone Can Read Minds - Yahoo! News

Scientists Say Everyone Can Read Minds - Yahoo! News

Attention All Folkies!

Online Lomax Archive Offers a World of Folk Music

Yahoo! News - Florida Governor Signs Deadly Force Law

Yahoo! News - Florida Governor Signs Deadly Force Law

Sound Good in Theory...

A fan's worst Nightmare!

Jail or Packers Tickets

Seems a little extra vindictive to me. . .

Interesting issue for Muslims:

Satellite to Help Determine Islamic Dates

Random thoughts:
1. There are so many was Islam could adapt to the 21st century. Is this really the most important? (Said with some trepidation and realization that:
a- Many Muslims do live harmoniously in 21st century Western society
b- The same criticisms can certainly be made of other religions, including my own RC faith.

Edited to update link:
Satellite to Help Determine Islamic Dates

as Yahoo! link expired.

My Travel Profile

Your Travel Profile:

You Are Very Well Traveled in Western Europe (71%)

You Are Very Well Traveled in the Northeastern United States (71%)

You Are Well Traveled in Eastern Europe (60%)

You Are Well Traveled in the Southern United States (54%)

You Are Well Traveled in the Western United States (53%)

You Are Well Traveled in the Midwestern United States (50%)

You Are Somewhat Well Traveled in Southern Europe (40%)

You Are Mostly Untraveled in Canada (20%)

You Are Mostly Untraveled in the United Kingdom (13%)

You Are Mostly Untraveled in Latin America (7%)

You Are Untraveled in Africa (0%)

You Are Untraveled in Asia (0%)

You Are Untraveled in Australia (0%)

You Are Untraveled in New Zealand (0%)

You Are Untraveled in Scandinavia (0%)

You Are Untraveled in the Middle East (0%)

How Well Traveled Are You?

Best American Cities for Me

American Cities That Best Fit You:

65% Atlanta

65% Las Vegas

60% Austin

60% Honolulu

60% Seattle

Which American Cities Best Fit You?

NFL draft could include 14 Sooners

NFL draft could include 14 Sooners

bOOMER sOONER!

Candidate Admits Using Twin as Stand-In

Candidate Admits Using Twin as Stand-In

Whoopsie!

Edited to add new link:
http://www.woai.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=0C9874CF-6E61-4B57-9D0B-2C8B722FA4F4

as Yahoo! link had expired.

Tom Toles

Rubik's Food Pyramid

Is that Pie Chart a la mode?

Ten Years Ago. . .

I was stationed in Germany at the time.

I was making after-clinic rounds on my inpatients (would have been about 11 AM OKC time) and kept hearing snatches of stories on patients TVs - all tuned to CNN - but couldn't make sense out of what they were saying.

I called home and found out what had happened. I can't even remember the rest of that evening.

I had the chance, last summer, to visit the memorial site. There is a statue on the grounds of a church across from the West end of the park. Here is a picture I took of it:

Jesus Wept 
The simplicity of it makes the emotional impact of it all the more powerful.

- Sue

Seems to fit...

medicine is love
brought to you by the isLove Generator

Survivors mark camps' liberation

From BBC:
Survivors mark camps' liberation

In the fall of 1991, I was doing a field exercise in the northwestern part of Germany in what proved to be the last ever REFORGER (REturn of FORces to GeERmany) exercise. The Cold War, kind of a last vestige of WW II, was over.

The REFORGER exercises were actually all over; troops (mostly Reservists) were just waiting their turn to go home to the States. I was staffing the general care clinic working 24 on/24 off.

On one of my off days, I had the opportunity to go to Bergen-Belsen, about 30 km from the British base we were using. As everyone does, I walked through the indoor museum. There were pictures, hundreds of them, stark black and white 4' x 6' posters of the most appalling scenes. The first few horrified me, but then, the walls came up, and I walked around the rest of the museum numb to the enormity of it all.

Then I went outside to the park. At first, after the horrors depicted inside, it was restful. Green grass with walkways, park benches, and flat gravestones scattered here and there. As I came close to one of the stones, I read the inscription.

Hier ruhe 500 (Here rest 500)

Another read "Hier ruhe 1000". I looked around - there were dozens and dozens of these stones in the park, each starkly announcing that the remains of hundreds of lay beneath them. After walking past just a few of these, I could not walk any further and sat on one of the benches for about half an hour trying to understand it all, and finally concluding that it is beyond all comprehension.

Very soon, we will have no more survivors of the Holocaust among us. But, with memorials such as this, we will never forget. We must never forget.

Polio to join smallpox?

Pushing back polio

One can hope. I had my tonsils out when I was 7. I was released from the hospital a day earlier than normal so I could get the vaccine that day. Doc Kroha had seen all the polio he ever wanted to.

The enemy of my enemy...

From U.S. News & World Report:
The enemy of my enemy

Interesting reading. I'm just not sure why the Sufis would want to associate with the Americans too overtly. Seems like they have enough trouble with the more radical Muslims already without adding "friend of the Great Satan" to their list of sins...

Silly Game

Milki W
Help poor Milki get back in his spaceship and fly away!

Boomer Sooner! 

Sooners Shine in NCAA Men's Gymnastics

Sooners Shine in NCAA Men's Gymnastics

Another National Title! Boomer Sooner!

Now This Is a Useful Invention!

No More Snooze Button Abuse!

- Sue
Queen of the Snooze Alarm

Culture war hits local pharmacy

Culture war hits local pharmacy

I think there needs to be flexibility on both sides.

Instances where pharmacists have kept or destroyed prescriptions to prevent a woman getting them filled elsewhere are just plain wrong.

OTOH, if (for most people) a 10-15 minute delay in getting a prescription filled means someone is outside the 72 HOUR = 3 DAY window for emergency contraceptives, that is NOT the fault of the pharmacist...

If pharmacies have the right to decide not to stock something, and insurance companies have the right to not cover something, a professional pharmacist should also have the right not to dispense something, as long as they have previously discussed this with their employer and worked out a way to allow the patient to get the prescription filled somewhere.

Pope: The Bracket

The Papal Bracket

Third World Protest

Snopes Photo Gallery (Third World Protest)

This is tooooo funny! I loved the second photo!

A final interview with OU legend Prentice Gautt

A final interview with OU legend Prentice Gautt

Too many athletes are given the title hero for God-given athletic ability. It's what you do with it and how your team and the world are changed by ALL of your actions that determines whether you are a hero or not.

Prentice Gautt should be a hero in anyone's book.

First Entry

Hi! This is my first post here.

I'm married with two young adult children and live in Amarillo Texas. I am new to this format, but have had a lightly used LJ for several years.

Hobbies include reading mysteries, country music, geocaching, and playing online.

 

Suerreal