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Spaghetti
There are two rival groups on facebook, both aiming to collect 1m users by June. One is creationist and one is evolutionist. I've joined the evolutionist group because quite frankly the creationist movement scares me. I never want Cian to be taught that creationism is a scientific theory like it is in some states in the US.
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Merry Xmas everyone
I hope you had a good one. -
United States
I was listening to this earlier and I think it sums up post 9/11 perfectly. I was inspired to listen to it by thinking about the warship built from the twin towers steel. That warship is a perfect example of what has been wrong with the US for god knows how many decades. -
New Job
In April the company I work for bought an outsourced department in house. The outsourced department was also based in Edinburgh so it was pretty much a lift and shift. Some functionality was duplicated so to coincide with the move they decided to reorganise operations. So the employee count is set to reduce from 102 people to 87. Only 18 people ( Read more... ) -
Gang of Four
Sometime around 1990 a friend made me up a compilation tape. It was an amazing affair, containing everything from Killing Joke, through Brutal Truth, Legendry Pink Dots to Kurtz Weil. I listened to that tape over and over. There was a Gang of Four track on there, Tourist. I loved it and went out and bought a copy of Entertainment! one of the ( Read more... ) -
Writer's Block: Theme Dining
I'd let the food speak for itself.
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A Name
I was running an idea for a post over in my head and a thought occured to me. What do "American Indigenous" like to be called? I had to put that in brackets in case the PC police got me ( Read more... ) -
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Health spending as a share of GDP
US 16%
UK 8.4%
Public spending on healthcare (% of total spending on healthcare)
US 45%
UK 82%
Health spending per head
US $7,290
UK $2,992
Practising physicians (per 1,000 people)
US 2.4
UK 2.5
Nurses (per 1,000 people)
US 10.6
UK 10.0
Acute care hospital beds (per 1,000 people)
US 2.7
UK 2.6
Life expectancy:
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Lol
The American right are attacking the NHS in an attempt to disrupt Obama's healthcare plans. It's the usual mis-informed rubbish consisting mainly of lies. The NHS isn't perfect, it's probably one of the worst such systems, but it's far better than the US system ( Read more... )