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A Top Story 2008-07-04 11:28:00 By Carlos Benito CamachoMy cousin Helena was a tall, gangling girl with freckles on her skin. She and I would always play in the garden whenever she came over to spend a few days in the summer during the school vacation. It was a big garden with all kind of plants and flowers, some trees, two benches, a fountain, a small statue of a dwarf, and, under a lapacho tree, granddaddy’s grave with the w
Inflation 2008-07-01 11:18:00 InflationBy Carlos B. CamachoInflation is the general rise in prices due to the spurious printing of money by a government in a vain attempt to finance a deficit created by an elephantiasic state and which can not be managed due to lack of domestic and international confidence, rendering interest rates extremely high. This increase in the volume of money, which is bigger and faster than the output Read more:Inflation
An Internet Story 2008-06-27 14:13:00 A Short Story by Carlos Benito CamachoHe had just walked into the big room in which he found himself now. Closing the tall, wooden door behind him, he felt had stepped into another strange set-up in his life. He could not see clearly, as the space around him was dimly lit by red neon lights which were fixed high above on the walls. It was drizzling outside and a wood combustion smell wafted about Read more:Internet
Vero Possumus... 2008-06-23 18:46:00 Here is Barack Hussein Obama's new Latin slogan:"Vero possumus, quoniam ego sum falsidicus muslim."Yes, we can, because I am a lying Muslim.Read: Obama Wants Change
The Choice 2008-07-11 13:59:00 By Carlos Benito Camacho On the left side of the political spectrum there is this guy who goes by the name of Obama; a man who attended four years a madrassa back in the days when he was a young boy living in Indonesia with his Muslim stepfather. And this man, whose full name is Barack Hussein Obama, goes about talking that he wants to change America. He wants to change a country with the stronges Read more:Choice
Akhenaten & Monotheism 2008-08-03 18:01:00 Akhenaten (or Akhenaton) was a Pharaoh of the 18th dynasty of Egypt. During this dynasty, the cult of the sun god Ra became increasingly important until it evolved into the uncompromising monotheism of Pharaoh Akhenaten. According to the cult, Ra created himself from a primeval mound in the shape of a pyramid and then created all other gods. Thus, Ra was not only the sun god, he was also the unive
Information 2008-08-13 14:21:00 By Carlos B. CamachoInformation is the knowledge of the political, social, and scientific events that constantly crop up in the rough landscape of reality, transmitted rawly and entirely, that is to say with each one of the pieces that make up the whole so it can be rationally grasped in its entirety and give us an insight into the matter in question.A tree is not the leaves, nor is it the branche
Desecrate 2008-08-31 16:11:00 Desecrate means to violate and mar the sanctity of a sacred place. That was precisely what the Montoneros leftist movement did in the seventies when a group of ten people wearing masks broke into Tucuman's Independence House. Tucuman is known in Argentina as the Cradle of Independence, for it was in that province where Argentina's independence was declared in 1816. The building where the declarati
Comment on Sarah Palin 2008-08-29 11:13:00 "Sarah
Palin chose to have her fifth child in spite of prenatal tests that showed Downs Syndrome. She exposed corrupt officials of her own party. Show me a politician who has done more to stand up for what they claim to believe in? Don't we ridicule politicians for hypocrisy and corruption all the time? Now here is a woman who has done what she believes in despite the costs to her personal life an Read more:Comment
Idealism 2008-09-24 09:19:00 By Carlos B. CamachoPhilosophically speaking , Plato is the source of idealism. This Greek philosopher postulated that all the things that surround us and that we see daily are not real objects, but sensory impressions; mere reflections of the original ones which are not on this earth, but in the Toppus Hyper Uranus, the lofty world of ideas. According to Plato, a chair is not a real object, as it
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