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From HughHewitt.com

Bill Clinton, on stage with Charlie Rose, in Davos, Switzerland today:

“And most of the terrible things that Saddam Hussein did in the 1980s he did with the full, knowing support of the United States government. Because he wasn’t Iran, and Iran was what it was because we got rid of their parliamentary democracy back in the ’50s. At least that’s my belief. I know it is not popular for an American ever to say anything like this, but I think it is true.”

Applause from the Davos crowd.

Radioblogger will post some of the Clinton Unplugged in Davos sometime tonight or tomorrow.

A caller suggests that Bill Clinton sounds like Uncle Rico in Napoleon Dynamite. The consensus among those who have seen the film is that this is spot-on.

How was this man ever elected as president? I never understood that. Those were the longest eight years of my life as an American citizen. It was as if I was living on someone else’s planet. I think the only country he is an advocte for is the country of Bill Clinton. I base my contention that his remarks were anti-American by my listening to the transcript on the Hugh Hewitt show last night (1/27/05).

Update:

Radioblogger has the transcripts and excellent commentary. I have been checking the major news outlets and no one is picking up on this story, it appears. Be sure to view these transcript blurbs, so that you can see his comments for yourself.

FYI…Bill Clinton has a blog. It looks real. Is it? I don’t know.

Update #2:
Sebastian Rotella, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer deems Clinton’s remarks part of a “virtuoso” performance.

DAVOS, Switzerland — Taking center stage at the World Economic Forum, former President Clinton delivered a virtuoso performance Thursday with a discussion of everything from Mideast crises to his past as president and future as a global activist.Clinton was clearly in his element in the high-powered annual talkfest that is Davos. He won a standing ovation from a rapt audience of political, business and cultural leaders.

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“What’s your problem? I look fine. I’m freezing my #@$ off!”

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So people are mad about Dick Cheney’s attire for freezing cold weather at a formal function. Most midwestern men would say, “What? I look fine. Who cares?”

Washington Post fashion writer Robin Givhan described Cheney’s look at the deeply moving 60th anniversary service as “the kind of attire one typically wears to operate a snow blower.”

“Cheney stood out in a sea of black-coated world leaders because he was wearing an olive drab parka with a fur-trimmed hood,” Givhan wrote in Friday’s Post, also mocking Cheney’s knit ski cap embroidered with the words “Staff 2001″ and his brown, lace-up hiking boots. “The vice president looked like an awkward child amid the well-dressed adults,” she said. From an AP article…

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The new $500 Mac Mini

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Live the digital life in stylish simplicity. Just 6.5 inches square and 2 inches tall, Mac mini provides what you need to have more fun with your music, photos and movies — right out of the box. And it boasts a miniscule price to match: Mac mini starts at $499.

Does this thing really work easily and well? Read this interesting review from MyWay News. I’d like to get a computer for each of the kids. Would this be a good choice? We currently have the standard two year old Dell computer. It’s working OK, is indeed a virus and spyware magnet (as any parent of teenagers can attest), but we need a second computer badly! My husband and I have been thinking laptops, but they are SO expensive. I think we could find a way to handle 500 to 600 each for three new computers. Any advice out there?

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The mythological Chimera

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A return of the mythical chimera? It’s possible, according to a National Geographic article posted by Maryann Mott of National Geographic News on January 25, 2005.

Scientists have begun blurring the line between human and animal by producing chimeras—a hybrid creature that’s part human, part animal.

Chinese scientists at the Shanghai Second Medical University in 2003 successfully fused human cells with rabbit eggs. The embryos were reportedly the first human-animal chimeras successfully created. They were allowed to develop for several days in a laboratory dish before the scientists destroyed the embryos to harvest their stem cells.

And at Stanford University in California an experiment might be done later this year to create mice with human brains.

Scientists feel that, the more humanlike the animal, the better research model it makes for testing drugs or possibly growing “spare parts,” such as livers, to transplant into humans.

Watching how human cells mature and interact in a living creature may also lead to the discoveries of new medical treatments.

But creating human-animal chimeras—named after a monster in Greek mythology that had a lion’s head, goat’s body, and serpent’s tail—has raised troubling questions: What new subhuman combination should be produced and for what purpose? At what point would it be considered human? And what rights, if any, should it have?

There are currently no U.S. federal laws that address these issues.

I’m a little sad to be reminded that I live in a world that NEEDS a law on the books to prevent this type of experimetation. The article actually goes on to make an arugument for creating laws to limit such scientific endeavors. It also quotes Irv Weissman, director of Stanford University’s Institute of Cancer/Stem Cell Biology and Medicine in California, as being against a ban in the United States. He says,

“Anybody who puts their own moral guidance in the way of this biomedical science, where they want to impose their will—not just be part of an argument—if that leads to a ban or moratorium. … they are stopping research that would save human lives,” he said.

Yeah, we’d never want to subject imperial science to moral guidance…

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Read this from Hugh Hewitt’s site:

And Rick Warren or some other far seeing pastor with a big facility and conference organizing experience ought to convene a conference on blogging and the Church, and invite all the God bloggers and interested pastors and parachurch workers to meet and confer on the new communication platform. If someone throws that party, I’ll endlessly promote it. But I hope that organizer invites some secular bloggers so that the Godblogcon I isn’t as hopelessly narrow in scope as the Harvard gathering.

And Here: http://smartchristian.com/blog/index.php?p=968

See result here on SmartChristianBlog:

UPDATE #14: SIGN UP FOR THE FIRST CHRISTIAN BLOGOSPHERE CONVENTION EVER (GodBlogCon #1)

This is how it happened:

POST #1: Hugh Hewitt writes (January 22, 2005):
Rick Warren or some other far seeing pastor with a big facility and conference organizing experience ought to convene a conference on blogging and the Church, and invite all the God bloggers and interested pastors and parachurch workers to meet and confer on the new communication platform. If someone throws that party, I’ll endlessly promote it. But I hope that organizer invites some secular bloggers so that the Godblogcon I isn’t as hopelessly narrow in scope as the Harvard gathering. And don’t hold it where the temps get down to zero.

POST #2: Andy Jackson writes (January 22, 2005)
Well, I’m on the pastoral staff of an Arizona (Mesa) mega-church with a 2,000 theater seat auditorium with a mega-screen that we could likely use. I will organize it if there is real widespread interest. But Hugh would have to do more than promote it, he would have to be a keynote speaker. I can guarentee him that the temps will not get down to zero. Oh ya, be sure to order Hugh’s book Blog today. Just think, blogging near, from, or in the Grand Canyon.

UPDATE #1: Hugh Hewitt e-mailed me (Andy Jackson) and said “run with it.” However, he also said we should have at least 50 to 100 committed bloggers or we should pull the plug. So, speak up now or forever hold your peace. Get this announcement out on your blogs and let’s see who has an ear to hear what the Spirit is saying.

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A little Norwegian church in Bricelyn, Minnesota - stained glass windows depicting the Twelve Apostles.  

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The blogosphere’s here to stay. Written by Mark Yost

It’s fair to say that Power Line, where astute fact checkers nearly brought down Dan Rather, were the cyber stars of 2004. And rightfully so.

But Power Line is just the tip of the iceberg. Minnesota is replete with bloggers, including Fraters Libertas (www.fraterslibertas.com), part of the Northern Alliance, which includes SCSU Scholars, Captain’s Quarters, Shot in the Dark and others.

For those unfamiliar with “blogging,” the word “blog” is short for “Web log,” which is basically an online diary that anyone can read. Subjects range from astrophysics to the Zodiac.

About 100 of these Minnesota bloggers gathered Saturday at Keegan’s in North Minneapolis for their semi-annual confab. (Many can be found there on Thursday nights, too, for the pub’s weekly trivia contest.) In attendance was the Nihilist in Golf Pants, Chad The Elder, Saint Paul, Captain Ed, Atomizer — to name a few. Some use screen names to guard their identity, but for most it’s merely part of the online persona they’ve cultivated. Read on…

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