http://counterpulse.com upsetting apple carts worldwide Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:38:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 en http://counterpulse.com/2008/04/12/the-divorce-industrial-complex/ http://counterpulse.com/2008/04/12/the-divorce-industrial-complex/#comments Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:38:09 +0000 Mike LaSalle http://counterpulse.com/?p=1060 Americans are generally aware that our Divorce Culture is a documented tragedy, but most seem to think that the availability of so-called “no fault” divorce is just a permanent reality. Few Americans seem to understand that marriage is being undermined by what can be called a “Divorce Industrial Complex” that includes lawyers, counselors, court personnel, and various others.

]]> http://counterpulse.com/2008/04/12/the-divorce-industrial-complex/feed/ http://counterpulse.com/2008/04/10/glenn-beck-interviews-ben-stein-on-expelled-no-intelligence-allowed/ http://counterpulse.com/2008/04/10/glenn-beck-interviews-ben-stein-on-expelled-no-intelligence-allowed/#comments Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:23:21 +0000 Mike LaSalle http://counterpulse.com/?p=1059 “It is a very beautiful documentary and it’s about the struggle between the Darwinist establishment that has a hammer lock on all the educational processes and the people who think that maybe intelligent design, the idea that there was an intelligent creator should get its day in the classroom or its day somewhere, laboratory or somewhere so we can have some idea of whether possibly life at some other origin than nothing.”

]]> http://counterpulse.com/2008/04/10/glenn-beck-interviews-ben-stein-on-expelled-no-intelligence-allowed/feed/ http://counterpulse.com/2008/04/09/robots-seen-doing-work-of-35-million-in-japan/ http://counterpulse.com/2008/04/09/robots-seen-doing-work-of-35-million-in-japan/#comments Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:12:28 +0000 Mike LaSalle http://counterpulse.com/?p=1058 Robots could fill the jobs of 3.5 million people in graying Japan by 2025, a thinktank says, helping to avert worker shortages as the country’s population shrinks.

]]> http://counterpulse.com/2008/04/09/robots-seen-doing-work-of-35-million-in-japan/feed/ http://counterpulse.com/2008/04/09/key-scientist-sure-god-particle-will-be-found-soon/ http://counterpulse.com/2008/04/09/key-scientist-sure-god-particle-will-be-found-soon/#comments Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:09:03 +0000 Mike LaSalle http://counterpulse.com/?p=1057 Higgs said he believes a particle named the “Higgs boson”, which originates from the force, will be found when a vast particle collider at the CERN research centre on the Franco-Swiss border begins operating fully early next year.

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]]> http://counterpulse.com/2008/04/08/boys-will-be-boys-even-among-monkeys/feed/ http://counterpulse.com/2008/04/08/new-zealand-bill-proposes-compulsory-paternity-tests/ http://counterpulse.com/2008/04/08/new-zealand-bill-proposes-compulsory-paternity-tests/#comments Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:37:29 +0000 Mike LaSalle http://counterpulse.com/?p=1055 A new bill would allow courts to order compulsory DNA testing of children for paternity checks, regardless of consent.

]]> http://counterpulse.com/2008/04/08/new-zealand-bill-proposes-compulsory-paternity-tests/feed/ http://counterpulse.com/2008/04/08/meeting-minutes-show-fed-officials-worried-about-deep-recession/ http://counterpulse.com/2008/04/08/meeting-minutes-show-fed-officials-worried-about-deep-recession/#comments Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:35:31 +0000 Mike LaSalle http://counterpulse.com/?p=1054 WASHINGTON - Worries about a deep recession — not a shallow one — drove Federal Reserve policymakers to slash a key interest rate last month, meeting minutes show.

]]> http://counterpulse.com/2008/04/08/meeting-minutes-show-fed-officials-worried-about-deep-recession/feed/ http://counterpulse.com/2008/04/08/child-custody-cases-often-suffer-from-neglect/ http://counterpulse.com/2008/04/08/child-custody-cases-often-suffer-from-neglect/#comments Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:03:32 +0000 Mike LaSalle http://counterpulse.com/?p=1053 In court this mother bragged about the fact that she lives essentially rent free in this house, is on food stamps and LEAP for propane and meets every other need with his child support (the father of the teenager is unknown and she receives no support from the father of the baby) there is another teenage son who lives with his father and spends summers with them, presumably also sharing that one bedroom. She proudly proclaimed that she stays home 24 hrs a day with her children.

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]]> http://counterpulse.com/2008/04/07/the-failure-of-intelligent-design/feed/ http://counterpulse.com/2008/04/07/reuters-austrias-media-compares-erotic-jesus-row-to-mohammad-caricature-riots/ http://counterpulse.com/2008/04/07/reuters-austrias-media-compares-erotic-jesus-row-to-mohammad-caricature-riots/#comments Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:34:50 +0000 Mike LaSalle http://counterpulse.com/?p=1051 The source of the dispute, which Austrian media has dubbed Vienna’s version of the Mohammad caricature row, is a retrospective honoring Austria’s cherished artist Alfred Hrdlicka, who turned 80 earlier this year.

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