I couldn't help notice the latest 'scandal' in the Telegraph Journal.
Here is a sample:
"When Harper took the host, "everybody just paused and said, 'What did he do with it?'"‚" said one official who watched the pool feed with reporters who were not inside St. Thomas Church in Memramcook.
"You could see he was, 'Uh oh, I don't know what to do with this.'"‚"
The curiosity among Catholics has not gone unnoticed among Liberal insiders in Ottawa, either.
Henneberry said he has received a call on Harper's actions from a concerned Catholic, and he doubts that she is the only one puzzled and perturbed.
"She said she was very upset," he said, adding he had not seen the footage.
"She said, 'All weekend long it has been bothering me and I know I can't do something about it, but someone should.'
"She can't be the only one in this country that is thinking that."
Why not? Is Mr Harper supposed to bow to every religion?
"The issue was initially raised by Monsignor Brian Henneberry, vicar general and chancellor in the Diocese of Saint John.
“It's worse than a faux pas, it's a scandal from the Catholic point of view,” he told the Saint John Telegraph-Journal."
Harper's in Italy today, where their Prime Minister is accused of banging anything with a heartbeat, and our scandal consists of "Did he or did he not eat the wafer?"
It's no wonder that other people see Canadians as bland and boring. I guess that's how the cookie crumbles.
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
Friday, June 26, 2009
History Repeats Itself
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Who Pays For These Studies?
From CTV News: Resuscitation at birth increases risk of low IQ.
Children who have to be resuscitated at birth appear to be more likely to score poorly on IQ tests, even if they appeared healthy at first, report British researchers.
The findings, published on the website of The Lancet, come from Dr, David Odd of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Southmead Hospital in Bristol, U.K.
The authors looked at children who had been resuscitated at birth but had no symptoms of neonatal encephalopathy, a term used to describe the signs of acute brain injury, such as seizures or altered responsiveness or tone.
They also looked at babies who had been resuscitated and had received neonatal care for symptoms of encephalopathy in their first month of life. They then compared the two groups to more than 10,000 children who had not needed to be resuscitated.
The researchers gave the children IQ tests when they were about eight years old. A low IQ score was determined to be less than 80.
The researchers found that the children who had developed symptoms of neonatal encephalopathy had more than a six-fold increased risk of a low IQ score compared with the children who had been born healthy.
But even children who had appeared healthy after birth but had been resuscitated had a 65 per cent increased risk for a low IQ score.
I now know why ignorance is bliss. "He's not going to ace his SAT, so let him go!"
Given the choice, I think I would rather be stupid than dead. Just ask some of our politicians.
Children who have to be resuscitated at birth appear to be more likely to score poorly on IQ tests, even if they appeared healthy at first, report British researchers.
The findings, published on the website of The Lancet, come from Dr, David Odd of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Southmead Hospital in Bristol, U.K.
The authors looked at children who had been resuscitated at birth but had no symptoms of neonatal encephalopathy, a term used to describe the signs of acute brain injury, such as seizures or altered responsiveness or tone.
They also looked at babies who had been resuscitated and had received neonatal care for symptoms of encephalopathy in their first month of life. They then compared the two groups to more than 10,000 children who had not needed to be resuscitated.
The researchers gave the children IQ tests when they were about eight years old. A low IQ score was determined to be less than 80.
The researchers found that the children who had developed symptoms of neonatal encephalopathy had more than a six-fold increased risk of a low IQ score compared with the children who had been born healthy.
But even children who had appeared healthy after birth but had been resuscitated had a 65 per cent increased risk for a low IQ score.
I now know why ignorance is bliss. "He's not going to ace his SAT, so let him go!"
Given the choice, I think I would rather be stupid than dead. Just ask some of our politicians.
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