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Allergic to what?
Andy Wharhol's 15 minutes of fame came to 19 year old Ashleigh Morris on the Channel 9 Current Affair program aired on 10 March 2008. Channel 9 has been pranked by Ashleigh who has managed to achieve her 15 minutes of fame at their expense by claiming to be allergic to water. Ashleigh is said to have suddenly developed the "allergy" at the age of 14. Regardless of the fact that the human body is mostly composed of water, Ashleigh is allergic to her own perspiration. Remarkably enough Channel 9 was able to locate an idiot medical practitioner who actually supports the diagnosis though never having seen it before herself. The doctor's medical qualifications should be carefully inspected. Ashleigh manages to lead the naive Channel 9 reporter in a merry dance through her shower. "Soon, "she tells him, "it will begin to hurt and the pain will become excruciating". We are not shown the allergy or the associated skin changes that arise from this. Photographs are provided which indicate that Ashleigh has been pinching her skin in various places but no sign of the typical rash associated with allergies or, indeed any of the other systemic features.
Poor Ashleigh has trouble lying next to her boyfriend because of his sweat. We can only assume that their relationship is celibrate.
Congratulations Ashleigh! You can certainly fool some of the people some of the time. 
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Religious Wars
The notion that Religions are responsible for a host of evils including war, imperialism, colonialism, discrimination is fundamentally flawed and based on the premise that a belief conveys a quality. In simple terms this is equivalent to saying that if I believe in Marxism or communism I am a bad person and if I believe in the Christian doctrine or the Jewish doctrine I am a good person. People are not judged on their thoughts but only on their deeds. Public speech, either as printed word or words to an audience is a form of deed which is why incitement to hatred and violence is considered offensive. Whatever I may think and whomever I might hate, provided I do not act on these notions I should not be judged.
The Whig view of history asserts that history is an inevitable progression and ascension towards a higher plane, the pinnacle of which is the British Constitutional Parliamentary system. Following this to its logical conclusion, people become more enlightened as societies develop. Ancient societies were barbaric and admitted the institution of slavery, mass slaughter, the oppression of women and justified these iniquities on the basis of their religious beliefs. It is presumed that once we have become more enlightened we see that there can be no philosophical or ethical justification for these. But ancient voices cried out against slavery and conquest growing more shrill until the Roman games were closed. Modern voices have not succeeded in ending boxing.
The Whig view of history is demonstrably false especially as democracies long preceded the existence of the Parliamentary system. Slavery has not been abolished from the world and there are arguably more slaves than there have ever been. If we look at the conditions of the men who are forced to dig for diamonds in Sierra Leone, the people of China who produce cheap products or reduce the waste of the computer industry, the children rug weavers of Pakistan, the sex slaves of Tel Aviv we can see that the Western World has not changed its attitude to slavery, it has merely been successful in hiding it.
The Christian religion, however much God has been evoked before all sorts of battles, has never in its doctrine or its creed sanctioned slavery, the oppression and conquest of other nations or the abuse of women. The same can be said of many other religious faiths. The fact that people have blessed their slaughter or mouthed the liturgy of religious faiths after conquest does not in any way make those creeds responsible for the crimes committed in the name of God. Increasingly we are seeing in books like The Gob Delusion by Richard Dawkins fanatical antitheism dressed up in the guise of Scientism. Something erected by faith cannot be torn down by reason.
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Last year I warned that the stock market could be expected to undergo a significant correction and that post July 2007 you should be cashing up. The next prediction is that US real estate prices are expect to fall now by 30% and this will be followed in Australia and elsewhere. I wonder how many of you are going to head that prediction.
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Where is the news about this? Hold on to your horses it is about to break. Last night Michael The Great Katsidis realized his dream of winning the world light weight boxing title at Wembley Stadium, London in front of 12,000 boxing fans when he defeated the Earl of Luton Graham Earl to claim the coveted WBO title. The title has been vacated by its incumbent champion who has indicated that he may return to contest it, though this is not likely. Katsidis is so far undefeated. The fight was a grueling one but Earl clearly was losing from the first round when he was knocked down twice by Katsidis. Although Earl actually made it back to force Katsidis to his knees at one point, the fourth and last round was a pathetic spectacle of Earl against the ropes enduring 100 punches in rapid succession until his side threw in the towel. Earlier they had done this but the referee threw it out again
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It has been estimated that each candidate in the next American Presidential campaign, 2008, will spend US$500. It will be the first billion dollar campaign for the American President. Who will the candidates be? Some republicans have formally filed with the party, John Cox of Illinois (more about that state later) and Michael Smith of Oregon. Who are they? More famous persons have formed exploratory committees (more on those later). These include Rudy Giuliani and John McCain. Newt Gingrich has expressed serious interest. Buried within serious interest is an oxymoron somewhere, at least as far as the tadpole is concerned
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Comment by spain01
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