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As we Americans prepare to celebrate our 232nd birthday as a sovereign nation, we would be remiss if we did not acknowledge the influence that our neighbors to the south exert on our economy, health, and culture.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Mexico’s Gifts to America: Illiterate Peasants, Salmonella, and Disease", url: "-gifts-america-illiterate-peasants-salmonella-disease/" });

A President who can't use a computer and doesn't understand technology at even a casual level is not a wise choice. It's with leaders like this that we get statements from politicians that the Internet "is a series of tubes". See for yourself. digg story

My friend and fellow top realtor, Marc Witman, had a great quote in the Baltimore Sun recently. He said,"It's if the only ones reading the papers are the buyers!"All the buyers know the market stinks and the prices are descending. It's evident that they know that in the offers that they write on our listings. Yet so many sellers still are in denial.Great quote Marc.

REMEMBER: Kerry Belittles U.S. Troops Fucking asshole Steven King insults soldiers - Yup his message board is closed ####### I don’t want to sound like an ad–a public service ad on TV–but the fact is that if you can read you can walk into a job later on. If you don’t then you got the Army, Iraq, I [...]

The Microwave Generation of the 1990's has now finished school and stands ready to step forward into the competitive marketplace. It goes without saying that the workplace is a fiercely competitive place but the marketplace most young adults (and, unfortunately, the newly divorced) have the most difficulty with is "formal" dating.Being a hardened veteran of the dating scene (I didn't marry until after forty), there are many "tricks of the trade" that I developed that always kept me a step ahead of my sports car driving, surgically built competitors who always were the center of attention as soon as they entered the room. So, when you find that special someone, step one is to make them feel special. There is an old adage that says, "The quickest way to a man's heart is through his stomach"

Mahesh Babu is undoubtedly the most popular and successful actors among the younger generation. Mahesh Babu has a huge fan following, particularly among the female audience.His film Pokiri was the biggest hit in the history of Tollywood and broke several long standing records in its historic run at the box office.Mahesh Babu spoke to the media on the sideline of a function organized by Thumbs Up. Answering to question, Mahesh Babu said that he has no intention of entering politics nor is he interested in campaigning for any political party.Mahesh Babu also said that he is an illiterate as far as knowledge of politics is concerned. He said that he did not know the difference between an MLA and an MP. But many people have taken his statement in a different way.They are saying "Mahesh Babu by

Fitna is a short film by Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders, which explores Qur'anic motivation for terrorism and Islam in the Netherlands (explanatory stolen from Wikipedia). On April 7, Indonesia has blocked access to YouTube and a couple of other websites such as MySpace and Multiply. The Minister of Information and Communications Muhammad Nuh has passed a bill that forces 146 ISP's in Indonesia to block access to YouTube. Kompas has confirmed that the reason for the block is Youtube's refusal to remove Fitna from their servers.After a week of public debates and overwhelming protests, Nuh has apologised for ordering the blocking of Youtube, Multiply and a few other sites which host the video Fitna, and the virtual community in Indonesia can relax, sit back, and exhale for a while. Ther

Years ago, Fax machine was the domain of modern technology, wherein you can send messages/documents over long distances by the use of phone and papers. But not anymore...these days, anyone with computer and phone can log on to the cyber community through internet faxing. It became a demand for the fastest way of communicating to others.Furthermore, when one talks about Internet faxing. He/she can be called a literate person. and if not it's the vice-versal. Most of the time people tends to be the former because they want to be "IN". they always want to seek knowledge and adapt to it. So why still use the fax machine?! Go forth and be in top of the others...Be in the latest trend of technology with the use of Internet Faxing.

I seem to attract them - goodness knows why. I think I need some kind of translator for this one though:Hello ...Angel Hi...How are u doing hope u are doing great,well my name is{name} and i live in NJ Glassboro, I am a single one who love honest andcaring,I work as an Engineering,well i was just looking for someone to be inloved with someone to make me happy when am sad,someone to laugh with,someone to share my life,and talk too,i want to be loved by someone all the way i alwayswanted to be, so i came along ur profile while i was looking for a nice andintresting profile so i found so good and nice things while i go through urprofile i really find it intrested so i decided to stop by and say hello to usweet angel,well my purpose of writing is that i want to me u and get to knowu,so if u are highly intrested in meeting me and getting to know me well u canwrite me back and lets what made us together okay, but i wish u could write meback to added me to your {email} {name} to read from u s

A follow-up to Faith Without WordsBooks are to memes what chromosomes are to genes.One advantage of the written word is that it allows inconsistencies in thought to persist longer, perhaps indefinitely. If a certain line of thinking (a religious tradition, for example) leads to self-contradiction, oral tradition will eventually identify and rectify the conflict--perhaps by shifting to a new paradigm. This is because there is no tangible authoritative truth statement in oral tradition; the exploration of an idea proceeds easier and converges toward a useful, working solution. This does not mean oral tradition is easily changed; it simply has a better response in reaching functional and consistent thought.With a written authority, this exploratory process is more difficult. When a self-contradiction is identified, there is not an easy way to bring about change--because the written authority itself is being challenged. Discussion always begins with the written source, often assuming the w

Previously I posted some statistics about reading in America and how little of it actually went on. Another post referencing those statistics caused a bit of a stir in the comments. Well, I think I have another piece of the puzzle now. It seems that a fifth of the United States is functionally illiterate. That number unsurprisingly jumps to one third in the place where they write the laws… You have to understand that “functionally  literate” doesn’t mean that someone can read a book or write a letter. Functionally literate means you can read a bus schedule or fill in a job application. Really, it’s only one step above signing an “X” for your name… Pathetic isn’t it? And no, before anyone trots out the tired canard, it isn’t the fault of our schools. Our schools are a perfect representation of the society we have built. That is why they are not respected. As Alivn Toffler said Why is everything massified in the system, rath

WASHINGTON (AP) - About one-third of the people living in the national’s capital are functionally illiterate, compared with about one-fifth nationally, according to a report on the District of Columbia. Adults are considered functionally illiterate if they have trouble doing such things as comprehending bus schedules, reading maps and filling out job applications. The study by the State Education Agency, a quasi-governmental office created by the U.S. Department of Education to distribute federal funds for literacy services, was ordered by Mayor Anthony A. Williams in 2003 as part of his four-year, $4 million adult literacy initiative. The growing number of Hispanic and Ethiopian immigrants who aren’t proficient in English contributed to the city’s high functional illiteracy level, which translated to 170,000 people, said Connie Spinner, director of the State Education Agency. The report says the district’s functional illiteracy rate is 36 percent and the nation

National education and tourism minister Bambang Sudibyo said here on Friday that 8.07 percent of around the 200 million people in the country were still illiterate."That is a shame, but data said so," he told a national working meeting of Indonesian Moslem Students (PII).He said the highest rate of illiteracy was found in East Java with reaching 30 percent of the province`s total population. Central Java was second, followed by West Java, he said.

A woman was helping her computer-illiterate husband set up his computer. At the appropriate point in the process, she told him that he would now need to choose and enter a password -- something he would use to log on. The husband was in a rather amorous mood and figured he would try for the shock effect to bring this to his wife's attention. So, when the computer asked him to enter his password, he made it plainly obvious to his wife that he was keying in "p..e..n..i..s". His wife fell off her chair laughing when the computer replied: PASSWORD REJECTED. NOT LONG ENOUGH ***