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A Life Examined


 Iraq: A country in ruins, a people in despair
 

"How many people have died is the subject of rancorous debate - but 150,000 is a low estimate in a range that some research has claimed could top 655,000. You see the bodies dumped on the streets, on rubbish dumps, in canals and in the sewers - sometimes beheaded, at other times bearing the marks of torture. "

New Zealand Herald


Cost of the War in Iraq
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Iraq

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 Fallen Heroes
 

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Cool Slideshows



Casualty count
Released: April 5
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Killed: 3,252
Wounded 24,476
Operation Enduring Freedom
Killed: 372
Wounded 1,148

The pictures shown are of some of the people who have died this year. Tell me, do you feel any safer now then you did last year before they died? Are you any more free now that they are dead? Can you tell me that their deaths were necessary?

Stop the Madness!
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 Do 1 Nice Thing
 

Do 1 Nice Thing

It’s Monday and I suggest that this week we all do one nice thing so that together we can make the world a better place.

April is National Donate Life Month so I am asking you to help save a life by becoming an organ, tissue, marrow, and blood donor.

Here’s how you can help:

Register with your State Donor Registry, if available.

Say YES to donation on your driver's license.

Tell your family, friends, physician, and faith leader that you want to be a donor.

Fill out and sign a donor card, have it witnessed, carry it with you.




As of today there are 95,998 individuals waiting for a kidney transplant in the United States.

Kidneys are the highest-demand organ, comprising nearly two-thirds of the organ transplant waiting list.

In 2005, nearly 15,000 kidney transplants were performed, with nearly half of those coming from living donors.

The first kidney transplants were performed in 1954 in Boston and Paris by Dr. Joseph E. Murray, who received the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1990.

While approximately 77 people receive an organ transplant in the United States each day, another 17 people on the waiting list die because there are not enough organs available.




According the United Network for Organ Sharing and the National Kidney Foundation, the demand for kidney transplants is continuing to rise at a record pace. More than 73,000 people are registered on the Organ Procurement Transplant Network waiting list. If the demand continues to outstrip the available supply of kidneys, only about half of the 73,000 will receive a transplant.


In 2004, 3,823 listed candidates died while awaiting a kidney. Kidney transplantation is performed on patients with chronic kidney failure, or end-stage renal disease. Without long-term dialysis or a kidney transplant, end-stage renal disease is fatal.


Recent studies have shown that a typical patient will live 10-15 years longer with a kidney transplant than if they stay on dialysis.


For more information:
donate life
understanding donation
UNOS
kidney.org


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 Easter Bunny Name
 


Easter Bunny Name

Your Easter Bunny Name is
Marshmallow Hucklebunny
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 Saturday night music
 

Doobie Brothers n. ['Hind. dub; Sans. durva, a kind of pasture grass; L. frater; G. bruder, Sans. bhratar; AS. brothor, male sibling']

1. Music group known for blues based songs with a rock edge, often with lush vocal harmonies (see also rock 'n' soul).
2. Assemblage of musicians specializing in country based rock featuring instrumentation such as violin and finger-picked acoustic guitar combined with electrical instruments and drums.
3. Musical entity recognized for incorporating sophisticated jazz stylings into "popular hit" songs.
4. "Rock" band, origins circa 1970, with reputation for exciting live performances and skillful musicianship.



Don’t you feel it growin’, day by day
People gettin’ ready for the news
Some are happy, some are sad
Oh, we got to let the music play
What the people need
Is a way to make ’em smile
It ain’t so hard to do if you know how
Gotta get a message
Get it on through
Oh now mama, don’t you ask me why
Oh, oh, listen to the music
Oh, oh, listen to the music
Oh, oh, listen to the music
All the time
Well I know, you know better
Everything I say
Meet me in the country for a day
We’ll be happy
And we’ll dance
Oh, we’re gonna dance our blues away
And if I’m feelin’ good to you
And you’re feelin’ good to me
There ain’t nothin’ we can’t do or say
Feelin’ good, feeling fine
Oh, baby, let the music play
Oh, oh, listen to the music
Oh, oh, listen to the music
Oh, oh, listen to the music
All the time
Like a lazy flowing river
Surrounding castles in the sky
And the crowd is growing bigger
List’nin’ for the happy sounds
And I got to let them fly
Oh, oh, listen to the music
Oh, oh, listen to the music
Oh, oh, listen to the music
All the time

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