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The London-based Asharq Al-Awssat newspaper last Wednesday quoted al-Megrahi’s father as saying that the former Libyan inmate was not dying.

“It is not that serious as some news media have been portraying,” Ali al-Megrahi told the newspaper. “I see he is improving day by day, and he is better than the day he returned.”

via Libya Says Lockerbie Bomber in Hospital

Update at Shhh:  Congress is listening to some of the Pan Am family members.

Wow, all of the sudden, the man is now deteriorating.  Hmm.

Tasteful or  Trash?  I say TRASH.  NY, imagine if Caroline had taken HRC’s seat.

Found at FB.

Nipple Tassels on Toddler Shirt Are they serious?  Our world is already filled with sick people animals. Do we really have to add to the world’s ills?  Why would anyone offer their tiny tot something so tasteless?   Goes so well with the UN policy on teaching 5 yr olds about masturbation.

The designer, Suzi Warren, told ParentDish via email that “The Nipple Tassel t-shirt was designed as a response to my own distaste at seeing mini versions of sexy clothes on young children. Five-year-olds wearing slashed mini skirts and boob tubes, little thumb-sucking Britneys.” I guess that’s like wearing blackface to protest racism? Mostly Warren is doing it to make money.

I suppose you have to get them started early.

MM:

The Girls Gone Wild culture has sunk even lower.

Is is any wonder that women aspire to buy these even if it breaks their backs?

HA

Exit question: Are we moving towards a society where “Raisins” restaurants actually exist?

H/T GP

And so it begins.

Will she advocate for care like this?  90 seconds in the new video highlights the upside-down priorities of Oregons Medicaid system.

Japan opposition crushes LDP in historic election | International | Reuters.

“I don’t like what’s going on now in this country. Things have to change,” said Kazuya Tsuda, a 78-year-old retired doctor in Tokyo who voted for the Democratic Party.

Will they have buyer’s remorse?

Lockerbie bomber ‘set free for oil’

The British government decided it was “in the overwhelming interests of the United Kingdom” to make Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, the Lockerbie bomber, eligible for return to Libya, leaked ministerial letters reveal.

Blood oil.

What happens to Brown’s government now?  Will Parliament issue a vote of no confidence and force his resignation and new elections?