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Cervical Dysplasia: Cervical dysplasia is the presence of precancerous changes in the cells of the lining of the cervix. Cervical dysplasia is classified by two terms, squamous intraepithelial lesion and cervical intraepithelial neoplasia. The cause of cervical dysplasia is infection with the HPV virus (human papilloma virus). An HPV infection that does not resolve on it's own can lead to genital warts, cervical dysplasia, and cervical cancer. The treatment of cervical dysplasia depends on the severity (mild, moderate, or severe).
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Journal of Nanoparticle Research
, Volume 11, Issue 6, pp 1331-1338
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A chemical strategy to control the shape of oxide nanoparticles
- Hongtao CuiAffiliated withCollege of Chemistry and Biology, Yantai University
- , Marcos ZayatAffiliated withInstituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid—ICMM, C.S.I.C. Email author
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A new strategy, epoxide-assisted precipitation route presented in this work, allows the shape control synthesis of Co3O4 nanoparticles. The shape of the nanoparticles is determined by the nature of the precursor cobalt salts (Co(NO3)2 · 6H2O, CoCl2 · 6H2O) used for the preparation of the particles. The different reaction dynamics of the two salts in ethanolic and aqueous solutions with propylene oxide result in precursor particles with different structures, which lead to the formation of oxide nanoparticles with different shapes during the heat treatment. Spherical particles of about 20 nm are obtained from the ethanolic solution of Co(NO3)2 · 6H2O; cubic-shaped particles of about 30 nm can be prepared from the ethanolic solution of CoCl2 · 6H2O; whereas platelet-like particles of more than 100 nm are synthesized from the aqueous solution of the mixture of Co(NO3)2 · 6H2O and CoCl2 · 6H2O.
KeywordsCo3O4 Sol–gel Nanoparticles Shape control Colloids
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- A chemical strategy to control the shape of oxide nanoparticles
- Journal
Journal of Nanoparticle Research
Volume 11, Issue 6 , pp 1331-1338
- Cover Date
- 2009-08
- 10.1007/s11051-008-9518-5
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- 1388-0764
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- Springer Netherlands
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- Co3O4
- Sol–gel
- Nanoparticles
- Shape control
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- Marcos Zayat (2)
- David Levy (2)
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- 1. College of Chemistry and Biology, Yantai University, Yantai, 264005, China
- 2. Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid—ICMM, C.S.I.C., Cantoblanco, Madrid, 28049, Spain


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I wanna see it.
It sounds like the kinda scary movie that would really haunt me after seeing it... I probably wouldn't be able to sleep at night. >.<;
This thread makes me so happy.:yayca:
I adore these design concepts especially the "Beam me Up Scotty" I love all the different expressions on their faces and personalities.
The concept art for the new alice & wonderland movie is...
Thats amazing. I'm in love with both pieces. Keep up great work!
Neat idea. =)
This kinda reminds me of ATC's (artist trading cards) I was a member of a website that traded ATC's called swap-bot.com
Thanks for all the replies! ^^
First I have to finish school here and I'll see where life takes me.
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I own a new macbook pro 15" and I love it.
The extra bit of money is worth it. I used to use the white macbooks in class here at college till I got a laptop of my own to work off campus.
Hmm, the first thing that came to mind was having a full internal image library so I could draw anything from memory. xD
Absolutely gorgeous! I love the clown.
I've always loved your work ever since I knew your name.
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I love the studies on the beige type colored paper.
Great updates~!
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I like your style, very versatile. Your studies are great too!
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The troll that did that is probably getting a good kick out of it.
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Parlez-vous français? Whether your answer is "non, not a bit" or "oui, un peu" French at Victoria has a carefully tailored and planned course for you to step right in and start learning.
In your first year studying French, a Bachelor of Arts (BA) major at Victoria, you will be introduced to all the magic, romance and mystery of French language and culture.
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I ran Nortan Anti-Virus and removed a certain virus. Then ran Malwarebytes, now Ad-Aware and AVG 2011 Anti-Virus.
After that, I could see the files on my other computer. But now I have hooked this to my new MacBook Pro—which is running Windows—I can't see the files. The Anti-Virus finds all the files and Mac OS X wrote a 400 MB directory there which I can see but nothing else.
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I'm using the darkfire theme upgraded from 1.2 to 1.5. The sidebar column is overlapping the main text. Check my site out using I.E. 6.0 and a PC and you'll see the problem. It only happens in IE on a PC. On a Mac on various browsers it works fine, and probably works well with firefox too.
I know IE has CSS pr0blems and I reviewed the forum but so far I could only fine references to problems with images in a post. Nothing with the default column setup. Never had this problem in WP 1.2.


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So many things were in place for the Bruins to make a resounding, early statement about their season.
The B's were chosen by the NHL and Versus network to tangle with the league's most exciting player, Alex Ovechkin, in a marquee game showcasing the league's best and brightest. The streets around TD Garden were teeming with hungry fans adorned in Black and Gold and ready to continue the magic carpet ride that suddenly transformed into a disappearing act during last year's Stanley Cup playoffs.
The vibe was enthusiastic and the focus was squarely on the Bruins in early October, a time when hockey is almost always second or third fiddle on the crowded Boston sports scene. A ferocious Bruins attack ensued on the ice for somewhere between 10-15 minutes Thursday night, but shortly thereafter sloppiness reigned in a thoroughly unsatisfying 4-1 loss to the Washington Capitals.
In the end, Thursday's home-opening defeat simply ranks as a severely missed opportunity for a Bruins team looking to keep making strides.
"It wasn't a magical night," said Marc Savard, who perhaps perfectly described what might have been, but clearly wasn't. "We all went to bed this afternoon for a nap hoping that it was [going to be a magical night], but it didn't happen tonight."
It was easy to count the reasons why the final result wasn't a magically delicious one for Savard and his teammates, and it all comes down to discipline, poise and puck intelligence.
The mistakes started at the top and sprinkled on down the roster. Sloppiness infiltrated through almost every player wearing a Bruins uniform on a night when there were no more dress rehearsals. Zdeno Chara did a fair job bottling up Ovechkin during 5-on-5 play, but took a bad cross-checking penalty at the end of the second period chasing after the Caps winger when he obliterated Mark Recchi with a vicious, open-ice hit. That penalty led to a power-play score for Brooks Laich and Ovechkin's so-called "sick" teammates.
Dennis Wideman kicked off the downward spiral when he felt pressure from the Capitals forecheck and blindly threw a pass toward the Bruins bench. It's normally a no-no in the Bruins' Big Book of Doing Things, and this one resulted in a penalty for too many men on the ice, followed by a Washington power-play passing clinic.
"This will not be the team that you're going to see night after night this year," said a terse Claude Julien, who stressed that more practices with the full team could help to alleviate some of the issues cropping up Thursday. "That much I can guarantee you."
A bad Bruins line change in the third period left Ovechkin as a free-and-easy trailer on a 4-on-2 Capitals breakaway, and he didn't miss that opportunity either. Ovechkin finished off the night by piling up three points and five big shots on net. It was plain to see he was the best player on the Garden ice in an Eastern Conference showdown, and it wasn't even close. Ovechkin also had eight other shots blocked by B's skaters and missed wide with another bid for 14 total attempts at the net during a very active night's work.
It was a pretty atypical evening for a group of Boston skaters that rarely beat itself last year, and was among the least penalized group in the NHL.
Too many shots in the offensive zone were either fanned on or completely missed their mark, and the numbers are pretty staggering. The Bruins managed a meager 20 shots on net in a wide-open, up-and-down game with the goal-minded Caps, but had an amazing 27 attempted shots either get blocked (13) or completely miss the mark (14) altogether.
David Krejci was beating himself up for not cashing in on a couple of excellent chances early in the game, but there were others who were far more off the mark than the 24-year-old pivot. The fact that he had a couple of Grade 'A' chances simply meant he was more effective on the ice than many of his celebrated teammates.
"We had some chances. Some of them were pretty nice, and if we had buried those chances it might have been a different game. We'd be talking about two points [for a win] right now," Krejci said. "I've got to be better, and it's my fault that we didn't score. I've got to work on those shots and practice and be better."
Julien chalked up some of Boston's unkempt ways to a team that's held only three full practices together during a compressed training camp schedule. The coach knows there is a better team lurking behind the turnovers and neutral-zone butchery. It's far too early to mention the departed Phil Kessel as a reason for the offensive struggles and power-play difficulties, but the Bruins didn't look like a team that's going to finish second in the NHL in goals scored again this season.
What's inexcusable for a veteran team are the mental mistakes and frustration that crept into Boston's game by the second period when it was still only a 2-0 game. The deficit felt like it might as well have been a 47-goal chasm when Bruins players haphazardly began throwing the puck up the ice and giving it away in the neutral zone as if it were a live hand grenade about to explode on their sticks.
"It was disheartening," Chara said after watching mental and physical errors sink his team. "We got kind of frustrated. We were doing what we were supposed to do, and then all of a sudden, I don't know if we got frustrated because we couldn't score a goal, but for whatever reason we just started to change the game plan.
"We were making mental mistakes."
It's far too early for the Bruins to be getting frustrated, but there should be some honest-to-goodness disappointment that a team with tall expectations shrank away from an opportunity to cash in plenty of good things happening on the NHL's first day of work.
With that in mind, here are three things we learned during Thursday night's debacle vs. the ridiculously talented Caps:
Through training camp and now after the first game of the season, when he scored his team's lone goal, Patrice Bergeron continues to submit overwhelming evidence that he's back to pre-concussion form. The 24-year-old was Boston's best faceoff guy, played the aggressive, suffocating style of forecheck that Julien may call for quite a bit more this season, and finally injected a little scoring life back into a flagging bunch when he broke through for a goal in the third period.
Bergeron took a feed from members of the B's impressive fourth line, moved in all alone on the cage, and faked out Jose Theodore before tucking a backhanded bid between the goalie's pads for the breakaway score. The goal temporarily energized his teammates, but it was too little, too late with nothing more than 10 minutes remaining in a game against a quality Eastern Conference opponent riding high with confidence. It was perhaps inconsequential in the game's final outcome, but it pumped just a little more air into Bergeron's tires with another 81 games in front of him.
Bergeron was clearly more preoccupied with the team result on a night when so many things didn't live up to prior billing, but the longest-tenured B's player appears close to the form that had him score 31 goals and post back-to-back 70-plus-point seasons prior to the concussion suffered a the hands of the Flyers back in 2007.
It took Bergeron six games before he cashed in on that first goal last season, but there's a world of difference strength- and comfort-wise between last year and this season's edition of the B's third-line center.
"It feels good to have the first one behind me," Bergeron said. "But it's a team game, so I'm not really worried about that. You've got to win games more than anything else."
Beyond Bergeron's encouraging play, Julien said post-game that David Krejci enjoyed a strong return in his first game action of the season after skipping the preseason, and Marco Sturm also appeared healthy and ready to perform in the wake of last season's knee surgery.
All that remains now is for the returning players to rejoin the normal flow of play and help get a disjointed Bruins offense back on track.
The B's power play was anything but powerful, going 0-for-5 with only one shot on net in as limp an effort as you'll witness from a pretty talented bunch of offensive pieces. The Bruins battled to simply keep the puck in the offensive zone while on the man advantage, and several Boston players mentioned post-game that the team probably didn't use the player manned on the half-wall nearly enough as an offensive option.
For Boston's first PP unit, that half-wall player is Savard, and he had altogether too quiet of an evening. Both point men — Chara and Derek Morris — also did very little of note in this season's debut performance. Add it all together, and there was no pop on a power play outclassed by the otherworldly Alex Ovechkin and the rest of Washington's big-name skaters.
"You've got to do the job [on the penalty kill] and the same thing on the power play," Bergeron said. "You've got to get the job done on special teams. You can't give [Washington] the seams like that [on the penalty kill] because they're going to make them and hurt us."
The Capitals also sliced and diced a Bruins penalty-kill unit searching to find an identity after losing contributors from last year's team, and Bergeron bemoaned the loose structure that allowed Washington skaters to find seams all over the ice. Ovechkin and big-bodied Brooks Laich did all kinds of damage with tic-tac passing across the ice, and they credited their success to the scouting reports after the game. The B's clearly need to tighten things up down a player, and make it more difficult for attackers to find openings close to the net.
"We're familiar with each other. That was the [PP] unit we had together last year and there's a lot of talent out there," said Laich after victimizing the B's for two goals. "We did some pre-scouting and we knew how to break Boston's penalty kill down. We got a couple of lucky breaks.
"I got a couple of lucky goals just in behind. Maybe later on in the season Thomas will squeeze [those shots], but we'll take them for now."
Shawn Thornton, Byron Bitz and Steve Begin will never blow people away with their breathtaking scoring skills or deadly wrist shots from the dot, but the blue collar trio did check in as Boston's most consistent line from beginning to end Thursday night. Like so many nights last season, the line dutifully provided the physical thump to the game, and Begin actually notched an assist helping spring Bergeron for his breakaway third-period goal.
"They did what they were supposed to do," Julien said. "I thought as a line they did a great job with the forecheck. Shawn Thornton had good legs tonight. Bitz and Begin were just working hard, making things happen out there. That's what we expect out of that line."
The fourth-line shifts logged obviously allow Julien to rest to the other three lines, and Thornton also brought the Bruins a quick spark when he dropped the gloves with Washington tough guy John Erskine after Bergeron's goal. The quick bout kept the momentum in Boston's corner just a bit longer, but the Bruins simply didn't have it against a Capitals team simply playing at a higher level early in the season. Thornton scored the solid victory after landing a couple of rights and then tucking Erskine's sweater over his head for good measure.
The fourth line played modest minutes Thursday night and isn't going to be confused with anybody's top line, but last night's performance does bode well for another solid year out of Thornton's lunch-pail crew when it comes to rolling lines and rattling the boards.
Dale, Michael and Jerry dig into the details of this draft for the Patriots with ESPN's Mike Reiss.
Giardi and Price discuss the Tom Brady appeal getting overturned and Roger Goodell's victory tour. The guys can't believe the victory lap and some of his behavior. The more you listen to him, the more frustrating his behavior becomes.
Giardi and Price break down how the teams in the AFC East altered their futures after the NFL Draft weekend.
Sam Packard is joined by Celtics 2nd Round draft pick Abdel Nader to discuss his path to the the NBA and how he plans to improve his game. Sam then talks to Player Development Coach Nick Friedman from Elite Skills Training, the pre-Draft camp Nader attended. Friedman also gives his opinion on the Celtics performance at summer league and the development of Jaylen Brown.
Isaiah Thomas talks to Glenn and Lou about why he loves Boston, the NBA Money Bump, oh, and some Durant guy
Danny Ainge joins Glenn and Christian to explain the Celtics draft process; and he also discusses the trade rumors that permeated the night.
Drew Pomeranz looked stronger in his second Red Sox start but the offense wasn't there to back him up tonight. Mut recaps the 4-2 loss to the Tigers. Thoughts on the manager, the bullpen, and your Sox calls as well.
Joe Castiglione & Tim Neverett talked to the new Sox reliever, who got his first save for the team today against the Twins.
Christian recaps the Sox 2-1 loss to the Twins. Eduardo Rodriguez had a good showing tonight but couldn't get the run support needed to secure a W. Thoughts on all of that as well as your calls on Red Sox Review.
Joey Mac joins Ken Laird on his Saturday show to discuss the David Backes addition and Loui Eriksson departure in NHL free agency
DJ and Pete continue to assess the season that was for the Bruins and look toward the future for the franchise and how they can improve.
DJ and Pete are together for the final Sunday Skate of the season. They get into their overall thoughts on the season, the Bruins keeping Claude Julien on as head coach and the end-of-season press conferences last week. They discuss the rebuild process, what the Bruins need and how they can obtain it. Plenty of callers have their own theories and opinions on all of these topics as well.
Respected journalist Jackie MacMullan is forced to spend ten minutes listening to previous show renditions of Gary Tanguay's erotic writings, including from his novel 'Love in a Day.'
Dino, Gary Tanguay and Jackie MacMullan discuss the state of the presidential race, including whether Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton have driven any voters from one side of the political spectrum to the other.
ESPN's Jackie MacMullan are in studio to discuss the state of the Celtics, including Gerald Green's signing over the weekend and a glut of players on the roster.
Glenn and Tom Caron talk about Michael Jordan's letter where he calls for a halt to gun violence. They also talk about MJ's timing in using this platform; something he'd not done in the past.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz was booed by her Constituency at a breakfast to kick off the DNC, and Glenn and Tom Caron discuss what that means for the Convention.
Glenn and Tom Caron talk about the Aroldis Chapman trade; looking at what the Cubs gave up, the price for Relievers might be too steep for the Sox to consider.
Dale and Holley close out the show with the day's best sound.
The guys welcome back Michael from vacation and give him crap for his outfit.
We look back at some of the classic temper tantrums of athletes and coaches.
Kirk Minihane is joined by Boston comedy legend Lenny Clarke. If you are a fan of stand up comedy this is the podcast for you. Kirk and Lenny talk about Carlin, Pryor, Williams, Murphy and many more.
Kirk Minihane is joined by former ESPN ombudsman and New York Times writer Robert Lipsyte. Kirk and Robert discuss the current state of ESPN and how Robert feels he did in his role as ombudsman. They both criticize ESPN for the lack of journalism at ESPN and look at some of the curious decisions the world wide leader has made in the past few years.
Kirk Minihane is joined by Lenny Dykstra to talk about his book, his life pleasing older women, and Lenny tries to avoid his past issues with money. This is one explosive episode.
Christian Fauria and Dr Gill talk about what you need to do to be in the best shape to help your golf game. What exercises you should and shouldn't be doing so you can impress on the course.
Uncle Buck breaks down the WWE Draft and the new rosters for Monday Night Raw and Smackdown Live.
This week we look back at the Open Championship.
Glenn, Lou, and Christian examine the latest Pitcher rumored to be on the Sox' radar.More from this show
Gerry, Mut and Kirk dig back into the Melania Trump speech on night one of the RNC and discuss how the Trump team will and should handle things going forward.More from this show
Dino, Gerry and Tanguay spend the final hour-plus of the show discussing the upcoming Republican Convention in Cleveland and taking calls from different sides of the Black Lives Matter debate and it's role in flaming recent violence in the US.More from this show
After a few callers argue with Kirk and Gerry about racial profiling in America, the guys get to WEEI's Michael Holley disagreeing with Callahan on the inclusion of Michael Brown into recent examples of tragic deaths of blacks in America.More from this show
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is that obama's ACTUAL HOUSE?
did the secret service approve this?
McCain is clueless and out of touch vs. Obama's a crook.
But it's big talk for one of the Keating Five. A few shots of McCain on Keating's jet should neutralize this.
The hell? If John McCain were Mr. Squeaky Clean then this might have a chance of hurting Obama. I bet when Obama's camp brings up Keating 5, the McCain camp will be all, but he's a POW!!! Weak old crazy Grampy.
What John McCain doesn't want you to know is that Obama only bought some yard space
(Rezko owned the house next door and Obama wanted a larger yard); Obama did not buy his house from Rezko and the land that was purchased was totally legal and Obama paid market value.
John McCain; grasping for straws and trying to figure out how many houses he owns.
I think it funny that in McCain-Bush land Obama isn't rich and McCain was never tortured.
Pretty funny, "undecided voters" (the only one's that matter) aren't even going to know what the hell this ad is talking about.
When are we going to start hearing about the fact that McCain actually is a crook? How can this not be something that's in the media every single day?
I guess for the same reason that he's getting a pass for being a bigamist adulterer and clearly no longer in his right mind.
And why must Republican presidents be not just puppets, but neurologically-impaired puppets? Is it really that hard for them to find a puppet with a fully-functioning brain who will do their corporate masters' bidding? I mean, they can all be bought, right?
I'm surprised McCain wore his eighth pair of $600 shoes for the commercial.
Is it really that hard for them to find a puppet with a fully-functioning brain who will do their corporate masters' bidding?
Cheney seems to have a functioning brain. He also illustrates the problem with having a figurehead who is smart -- he comes off as palpably evil rather than just affably incompetent.
I don't know guys.
If we're talking about who lives in what mansion, the fact that Barack Obama's half-brother is living in a 2X3 meter hut in a slum outside Nairobi where people are getting killed with machetes seems like a more interesting topic.
@11: thanks for your concern. Now, fuck off.
Here in "KEY STATE" Ohio the McCain ad I see most is the ridiculous "Obama's taxes, Obama's TAXES, OBAMA'S TAXES! ECONOMIC DISASTER!" one. The people dumb enough to buy it probably don't vote (yeah I know, keep reaching for that rainbow)
Why hasn't Cindy shared their father's tremendous wealth with her half-sisters Kathleen and Dixie? The cost of living in Arizona is much higher than in Nairobi.
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Tonatico Municipality is one of the municipalities of the State of Mexico, in Mexico located 153 kilometers from Mexico City, 105 from Cuernavaca, 84 from Toluca, 68 from Taxco and 5 from Ixtapan de la Sal. Tonatico, of Náhuatl origin, is from the Náhuatl word tonatihco, place of the sun.[1]
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In the area around the modern town have been found prehistoric animal remains and cave paintings. According to legend, Axayacatl conquered the place, then known as Tenati-Tlan, "behind the walls", which had existed a few thousand years, and founded Tonatiuh-Co, which had the same borders than the current town. However, no records of this exist. The region had been principally populated by the Matlatzincas, but at the time of the Spanish Conquest, the area belonged to Tlatoani Axayacatzin of Cuahnahuac(present-day Cuernavaca). In 1521 Hernán Cortés sent Andrés de Castro to keep the local peoples from supporting Cuauhtémoc and subdue the area. Don Gaspar Alonso, a conquistador, forsaked his heritage and sided with the natives of Tonatico, taking on the name of Tlachcolcatcal or Tlacatecutli. He most likely died in the town after Spanish dominatino. In 1525, the Spanish founded the modern town, modifying the indigenous name to Tonaltinco or Tonaltiunco. A few years later Franciscan friars come to evangelize the area. At the same time a statue of the Virgin Mary arrived, now-called the Our Lady of Tonatico who is credited with miracles related to problems Tonatico had with nearby Ixtapan de la Sal. However, the town eventually came under the control of Ixtapan de la Sal in 1553.[1]
During the Mexican War of Independence both Hermenegildo Galeana and Pedro Ascencio de Alquisiras were active in this area. In 1863, Don Teodoro Estrada and Don Fructuoso Vázquez fought here against the French. In 1870, the town became the seat of the current municipality of Tonatico, but the territory it governs is only about half the size of its historical extent. The Liberation Army of the South (Zapatistas) were active here, first burning the municipal library in 1912, attacking federal troops in the main church and lastly dispersed federal troops from here in 1916. Tonatico's annual Passion Play was inaugurated during Holy Week 1940, the same year that the Feria del Calvario (Calvary Festival) was promulgated for the third Friday in Lent every year. The 1985 Mexico City earthquake also affected this area as well, damaging the Sanctuary of Our Lady.[1]
Our Lady of Tonatico is housed in the Sanctuary of Our Lady in the town.
The actual president for 2013-2015 is Dr. Elodio Gordillo Mendez well known by the nickname of El Chintete prieto.
Tonatico has had a number of notable residents. Teodoro Estrada was born in Zumpahuacan State of Mexico, fought against the French, next to Porfirio Diaz. His performance on the battlefield gave him the grade of colonel. Porfirio Diaz had him murdered in Tenancingo. Brigadier General Domitilo Ayala Arenas was born on May 12, 1885 in La Audiencia Tonatico. He fought with the Liberation Army of the South, next to Emiliano Zapata. He died February 12, 1932 in Mexico City. Don Sebastián Lealba was born in Tonatico February 26, 1830, and died in Tetipac, Guerrero. He was the leader of the movement with which Tonatico gained municipal independence on April 26, 1908. There is a bust of Don Sebastián in the municipal hall.[1]
Notable landmarks in Tonatico include:
- The house of Gaspar Alonso dating from late 17th century.
- The remains of a mill for wheat, on the farm of San Miguel from the 17th century.
- The ruins the first houses that were constructed, mainly on Francisco Javier Mine Street from the 17th century.
- The remains of old stone bridges on the San Jerónimo River, probably from the 16th century.
- A stone bridge constructed on San Jerónimo, which is still in good condition.
- A sundial in pink stone, which today is on the arch of the North front door to the vestibule of the church.
- Sanctuary of Our Lady of Tonatico, whose construction was initiated in 1650 and is still in use.
- Chapel dedicated to El Niño de la Azucena, built in 1948.
- Chapel to the El Señor de la Agonía (Our Lord of Agony), built in 1956.
- Chapel of the Calvary, which has been expanded and remodeled in the last decades
The population of the town as of 2005 was 6,889 people.[2]
As municipal seat, the town of Tonatico has governing jurisdiction over the following communities:La Audiencia, Ojo de Agua, La Puerta de Santiago, El Rincón, Salinas, San Bartolo, Los Amates (San José de los Amates), San Miguel, El Terrero, Tlacopan, La Vega, El Zapote and Colixtlahuacán. The municipality of Tonatico borders with Ixtapan de la Sal, Pilcaya, Zumpahuacan, Villa Guerrero and with the state of Guerrero to the south. The territorial extension of Tonatico is 91.724 km2.[1] The population of the municipality as of 2005 was 10,901.ref name="INEGI"/>
Population growth rate is very slow, growing only at 3.61% from 1970 to 1980 and even less (0.51%) from 1990 to 1995. The number of births in the municipality have been: in 1996, 280; in 1997, 290 and in 1998 only 84. The average family size is five.[3]
Tonatico has several mountains such as "La Cruz", the "Tapachichi," but the largest is "La Puerta" that is 1685 meters high. The "Salto de Zumpantitlán" is a waterfall that Tonatico has, along with "Tenancingo", "San Geronimo" and "Taplalla" rivers.[1]
The main important economic activity is agriculture, particularly corn, which is grown on over 2300 hectares. Another major crop is onions which is sown on 750 hectares, and on a smaller scale can be found cucumbers, beans, tomatoes, chiles, alfalfa and flowers. In this municipality there is no industrial production, but there is tourism because it has thermal springs. Another activity is mining. According to INEGI, in 1995. Tonatico had 2,258 households in total. Within these, 1605 had potable water, another 1880 had sewer connections. and finally 2164 had electrical power.[1]
Around the municipality have been found prehistoric animal remains and cave paintings. It is said that Axayacatl conquered the place, then known as Tenati-Tlan, "behind the walls", which had existed a few thousand years, and founded Tonatiuh-Co, which had the same borders than the current town.[1]
Remains of pre-Hispanic animals have been found, as well as caves with cave paintings within ravines. Artifacts from pre-Hispanic peoples include ixtamiles, temascales, tanks, pots channels etc.
In Tecomatepec, several clay whistles which are used to entertain the children. Some people make reed flutes. The ayacachtli or rattle make of "bules", "cirianes", "socos", or another objects that sound when shaken.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Enciclopedia de los Municipios de Mexico Estado de Mexico Tonatico". Archived from the original on May 8, 2007. Retrieved 2008-03-29.
- ^ "Principales resultados por localidad 2005 (ITER)". Retrieved 2008-03-29.
- ^ H.Ayuntamiento de Tonatico, Registro Civil, 1998.


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Skip to comments.SaveDarfur.Org Ad Campaign Misleads About the Bush Admin's Role in Darfur
Posted on 10/01/2006 8:24:21 AM PDT by dirtboy
Over the last few days, the non-profit organization SaveDarfur has been running heart-wrenching commercials showing the victims of ongoing genocide in Darfur. The commercials are quite effective on an emotional level, as they should be for anyone with a heart. And then, at the end, there is a call to action for viewers.
What is the call to action, you might ask?
Is it a call for the UN to get serious about forcing Sudan (a member of the UN Human Rights Commission) to stop blocking deployment of a 22,500 member UN Peacekeeping force? (something already approved by the Security Council)
Is it a call for public pressure for sanctions or even military action against Sudan?
Of course not. The end of the commercial implores viewers to tell President Bush to take action to stop the genocide. And implies he hasn't been doing anything along those lines by not saying anything else on the matter.
Well, perhaps one could make the argument that they are working within the limits of a 30-second television commercial - you can't always squeeze in the full story in that short of a time span.
However, they are also running a print campaign that is under no such limitations. And here is what the print campaign is saying:
Auschwitz. Armenia. Rwanda. Bosnia. Now Darfur.
We have seen the haunting pictures, heard the cries of grieving mothers. Mr. President, you can end it tomorrow when you speak to the United Nations and the world. You need only stand up and say that the United States and its allies will take decisive action now to protect lives in Darfur. That the United States, and the rest of the world, will move now to deploy the UN force they've already approved. In America the support for action crosses partisan lines. John McCain and Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and Bob Dole support taking action now.
Please, Mr. President. Beyond politics, beyond borders, beyond religion, there is the moral imperative to save lives. Mr. President, the world is waiting. The lives of two million people hang on your every word tomorrow. Please don't let them down.
Well, maybe SaveDarfur.org simply isn't aware of all the Bush Adminstration has done to try and halt the genocide in Darfur. Except for the fact that they have the following items on their own website - a press release dated September 19th:
Coalition Applauds Presidents Call for UN Peacekeepers and Appointment of Andrew Natsios as Special Envoy
Washington, DC The Save Darfur Coalition today applauded President Bushs commitment to get UN peacekeepers into Darfur and his appointment of Andrew Natsios to be his Presidential Special Envoy for Sudan during his address to the United Nations. The Coalition also stressed the need for both Mr. Natsios and President Bush to immediately increase pressure on the Sudanese Government to accept the already authorized UN peacekeeping force. Natsios previously served as the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and as the Special Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan.
By appointing Andrew Natsios to be his Special Envoy for Sudan, the President has told the world that he is serious about ending the crisis and building a lasting peace, and that means getting true security to the people who need it, said David Rubenstein, Coordinator of the Save Darfur Coalition. The true measure by which history will judge the Presidents efforts to end this genocide is not what he says today, but what he does tomorrow. He and Mr. Natsios must be relentless until the genocide is stopped.
So even as they were producing the TV and Print commercials and making the media buys, they were applauding Bush on their own website.
But maybe the Bush Admin isn't taking the actions needed to pressure Sudan into allowing the UN peacekeeping force into Darfur.
Or maybe the Bush Admin IS pressuring Sudan. Once again, from SaveDarfur's own website:
US tells Sudan: cooperate or expect confrontation
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Sudan in firm terms on Wednesday it must choose between "cooperation and confrontation" with the rest of the world and accept a U.N. force for Darfur. "Innocent people are suffering and dying. The humanitarian situation, already tenuous, is at risk of becoming a complete disaster. And the hope of peace is now in danger of collapsing altogether," she said of Darfur. Aside from the threat of punitive action, the United States has begun dangling the carrot of incentives if Sudan agrees to a U.N. force, including the promise of reconstruction funds and improved bilateral ties. "If the government of Sudan chooses cooperation -- if it works with the United Nations and welcomes the U.N. force into Darfur, then it will find a dedicated partner in the United States," said Rice. Darfur has become a rallying cry in the United States among a range of religious, political and rights groups and the Bush administration is under strong pressure to act. The Save Darfur Coalition ran a full-page advertisement in The New York Times on Wednesday, showing mass graves in Darfur. "When all the bodies have been buried in Darfur, how will history judge us?" said the headline on the advertisement.
Well, then, what does SaveDarfur have to say about this contradiction?
From their own FAQ
Why is the Coalition calling upon President Bush to help make sure UN peacekeepers are sent immediately to Darfur? Shouldnt that be the UNs responsibility?
The recent television ads sponsored by the Save Darfur Coalition asking President Bush to take the lead in pushing for the deployment of a UN force in Darfur are not meant in any way to bash the President, but rather to urge him to follow through on the good work he and his Administration have already begun. We are both cognizant and appreciative of the fact that the President has done more for the people of Darfur than any other world leader. In fact, it is because of his leadership thus far that we direct our pleas to President Bush now. The hard truth is that the United Nations does not have a standing army it can choose to deploy, it must instead rely on its member states to do the hard work necessary to actually deploy a peacekeeping force once that force has been authorized. As the strongest of member states, we believe that the United States, under the Presidents leadership, must lead the international effort to raise and deploy that UN peacekeeping force. While we are not calling for U.S. troops in Darfur, we are calling for the strong U.S. leadership necessary to ensure that a capable UN force is raised and sent to Darfur as soon as possible.
It is also worth noting that while these ads running in the U.S. call for stronger leadership from President Bush, similar ads being run internationally call upon various international leaders to provide strong leadership as well. Advocacy directed at President Bush is not the sum total of our advocacy efforts, but is in fact only the U.S. directed portion of a larger international advocacy campaign directed at the top echelon of world leaders.
Read that again:
We are both cognizant and appreciative of the fact that the President has done more for the people of Darfur than any other world leader
So why is there NO mention of that in the TV or print ads? Why didn't SaveDarfur re-word the commercials to say something along the lines of "President Bush has exercised strong leadership to stop the genocide. Please call him up and say you back him to take even more concrete action!"
Well, maybe a look at the Executive Committee for SaveDarfur.org would reveal just WHY they don't want to give him such credit in their commercials - it includes many sworn enemies of the Bush Adminstration who have had no qualms about spreading lies about the Bush Admin in the past:
American Jewish World Service
American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA Society)
Amnesty International USA
Citizens for Global Solutions
Darfur Peace and Development
Genocide Intervention Network
International Crisis Group
Jewish Council for Public Affairs
National Association of Evangelicals
National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA
STAND: A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition
Union for Reform Judaism
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
I have a suggestion. Instead of calling President Bush to take action on Darfur when he already clearly is doing such by the very admission of those running ad campaigns claiming otherwise, I would suggest that freepers and other Americans outraged by this misleading advertising campaign use the contact information on the SaveDarfur website and tell SaveDarfur to tell the whole story in the commercials, instead of implying that Bush is doing nothing to stop the genocide. This may have been an honest mistake, or it may be politically motivated (after all, the November elections are not far off). But either way, it reeks no matter what the underlying motives may have been, and is counterproductive towards stopping the genocide in Darfur. SaveDarfur.org should pull these ads immediately and issue an apology to the Bush Adminstration for not telling the entire story:
Save Darfur Coalition
Suite 600
2120 L Street NW
Washington, D.C. 20037
(202) 478-6311
(202) 223-9579
Here's the thread.
And fast as well!
Let me ping some people and then read it.
PING and pass it along!
This is important.
This one was pretty easy - all I had to do was go to their own damn website to get all the material I needed to indict their own ad campaign. The libs usually make you work a bit harder than that.
Darfur won't have any US military action for a variety of reasons... most of which come straight from the mouths of the libs who celebrate this cause.
1. There is no US compelling interest there (same thing was claimed of 'Nam and Iraq).
2. Who is the USA to be the world's policeman? What moral right do we have?
3. War is wrong. We shouldn't engage in war, cause living beings die. Thousands will die in such a war, mostly the innocents on the other side.
4. We are not being respectful of the Darfur culture and history if we interfere. What is that Star Trek prime directive again?
5. This is a civil war, and we shouldn't be putting American boys and girls in harm's way.
6. We should have the UN do it.
In other words, the Libs are inheriting the whirlwind of the winds of dissention that they've sown....
Didn't you know this was Bush's fault?
NOTHING will be done about the genocide in Darfur until the world openly recognizes ISLAM for what it is. In the meantime, moozlims get a free pass to continue their expansionism via genocide in the Horn of Africa.
They really know how to show their appreciation, huh? /s
Excellent post, dirtboy!
The president has been urging UN action on Darfur almost since taking office. I've seen the ads and they clearly insinuate that he's not interested.
I did some googling and found that the conspiracy sites already blame the president for all past and potential future scenarios. Some sites blame him for doing nothing, others make claims of secret ops that are causing the problems, and still others say that if we do anything it will be to steal their oil.
The left is nothing but pathetic scum.
Thanks for the ping.
This isn't just about politics. It's about a cheap shot using a tragic situation - and that cheap shot does NOTHING to help the process along. In fact, the liberal nitwits running SaveDarfur also do NOT want the US to take any kind of unilateral action:
While we are not calling for U.S. troops in Darfur, we are calling for the strong U.S. leadership necessary to ensure that a capable UN force is raised and sent to Darfur as soon as possible.
But the only thing I see that would force Sudan to accept the peacekeeping force would be a threat of direct US military action if Sudan continues to block deployment.
We on FR can debate whether or not it is in our interests to be involved here, or at what level that involvement should be. However, SaveDarfur simply is not serious about what it would take to pressure Sudan here. Throw in their blatant omission of what Bush has done to date, and they are now part of the problem, not part of any solution.
7. We will radicalize more Muslims to the cause if we send troops there, and violence will increase, thus creating a quagmire
Maybe I'm pointing the finger at a group that was active earlier...
But when I saw the adverts, my knee-jerk thought was "Where the
fire-truck where you people when Christians and animists were being
murdered in southern Sudan by the Islamic Arabs of the government troops?"
But once it's Muslims getting raped, murdered and pillaged by their
co-religionists....it's time for a big ad campaign.
Thank you for posting.
Excellent!...........this ad is very decieving.....it all comes down to the last line...*Please President Bush stop the genocide now*.......as if Bush is responsible for not doing anything!
BUMP to everything you said.
Excellent work.
This is a horrid cheap shot and you're awesome to have caught it and exposed it!
But we sure as heck ain't gonna give him credit in a national ad campaign. We'll instead imply the opposite - after all, it's only a few weeks until the November elections! We gotta have our priorities straight here, you know!
It is also worth noting that while these ads running in the U.S. call for stronger leadership from President Bush, similar ads being run internationally call upon various international leaders to provide strong leadership as well. Advocacy directed at President Bush is not the sum total of our advocacy efforts, but is in fact only the U.S. directed portion of a larger international advocacy campaign directed at the top echelon of world leaders.
(too bad I forgot to italicize this paragraph in the initial post).
I guess the SaveDarfur people can't be bothered with the fact that most people seing the commercial in the US WILL NOT SEE THE COMMERCIALS RUNNING ELSEWHERE IN THE WORLD.
I saw that commercial this morning. It raised the blood pressure, for sure. Now I am livid.
God bless President Bush and protect him from all enemies.
I get pretty sick of muslim claims that there is no racism or ethnic strife within islam. All I have to do is look to Darfur to see arab muslims slaughtering african muslims. Or we could look at the fact that Bangladeshi muslims often end up in arab countries as slaves. Look at the Kurds, they face an endless threat from the Turks, sunni muslims in Iraq and Shia muslims in Iran. And lets not forget that the palestinians are the long time whipping boy of the muslim world unless they kill themselves and take Jews and Christians with them.
Exactly. The sponsor/associate lists tell the tale:
It's ELECTION time and what better way to motivate the black vote, to cite one wing of the democrat party?
How does the Save Darfur Coalition help the people of Darfur?
We utilize media outreach, public education, targeted coalition building and grassroots mobilization to pressure policymakers and other decision-makers in the United States and abroad to help the people of Darfur.
How do I make a donation to the Save Darfur Coalition?
The easiest way to donate is through our secure online donation system.
If you prefer not to contribute online, you can send us a check or money order via the mail. For your security, we ask that you do not send cash.
Donations can be sent to the following address:
Save Darfur Coalition
P.O. Box 18176
Washington, D.C. 20036
Do you accept clothing and food donations?
We only accept monetary donations, as we do not provide on the ground humanitarian services.
I noticed that too!
ONLY MONETARY donations.
The question begs...for what purpose? MORE ADS?
Are you still collecting the Million Voices for Darfur postcards?
The Coalition and its partners collected more than 1,000,000 postcards urging President Bush to use the power of his office to support a stronger multinational force to protect the people of Darfur. Concerned citizens from every state in the union collected postcards at small town community events, large student rallies, religious services and on the Internet.
While the Million Voices for Darfur Campaign is no longer active, we will still collect your postcards and deliver them to President Bush.
And check out who signed the Millionth Postcard (one is a usual suspect, the other wasn't but probably should be by now):
Senators Frist and Clinton Sign One Millionth Postcard Urging President Bush to Advocate Multinational Peacekeeping Force to Stop Darfur Genocide
Washington, DC Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, M.D. (R-TN) and Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) today joined other Members of Congress in signing the 1,000,000th postcard to President Bush urging him to use the full power of his office to support a stronger multinational force to protect the innocent civilians under attack in Darfur, Sudan. The senators signed the postcard at a U.S. Capitol news conference, helping the Save Darfur Coalition to reach its goal in just five months.
I think pushing Frist for majority leader was probably the biggest political mistake the Bush Admin did. He has been a clueless disaster.
Oh FGS! I could have done without reading Frist has signed on. Good grief.
If ohioWfan doesn't reply, I will link your thread on the Dose tonight. I see that most posters are still involved on the Sunday thread.
Their appreciation is positively UNDERwhelming.
The United States must use all available means¯diplomatic and financial¯to ensure the rapid deployment of peacekeepers in Darfur.
Note that military action is not an option to them. Which means they are not serious about pressuring Sudan.
This is the most intellectually dishonest ad I have ever witnessed. It must have been produced by Kofi Annan... in collusion with George Clooney.
I wouldn't blame Clooney. He has said in public that Bush has done more for Darfur than any other world leader.
I smell rats within the liberal members of the executive committe at SaveDarfur.
I have a feeling, just a gut instinct from two decades in marketing, that they might have had several commerical scripts and focus-tested them among their members. And any commercial that gave Bush any credit probably got booed down.
I go along with your gut instinct.
PR ping to okie01 and a general ping to FR's best BS detector shermy.
When we saw that commercial, my husband looked at me and said "geuss they don't realize it's the UN Peacekeepers doing the raping and molesting".
I'm glad other people saw the commercial and saw problems with how it ended. The first time I saw it, I thought I might have been overreacting. But it ran a second time during FNS and I was irate enough to look up what this outfit was about.
Methinks liberals should start adapting the informercial approach for their political ads. After all, both promote things that don't permform anywhere near as well as claimed in the commercials.
Glad you did, I'm spreading the word among my non-political friends so they hopefully won't be duped during the upcoming elections.
I saw this Commie ad for the first time yesterday and all I can say is that this Darfur crowd has to be doing a whole lot a drugs to believe they can get away with blaming the fiasco in Darfur on President Bush. Probably the most disgusting thing I've heard out of a bunch of pothead, Commie sexual deviants to date. Darfur is none of our business. If the U.S. gets involved in that sewer, I'LL become an "anti-war" protestor. Somebody needs to be shot over this stupid and disgusting propaganda "ad" being shown on TV in my country.
What they are willing to grant on their own website won't find its way into the ads because of, as you suspect, their board of directors. A contributors list for this rather elaborate campaign might also be even more enlightening.
As far as the ad copy is concerned, there is a professional need to call the reader/viewer to action. And, as you note, the way this particular call to action is framed avoids stating an admitted truth and implies something that isn't the truth.
A copywriter has to work to do that. It has nothing to do with the 30-second limitation.
At best, it's sloppy writing and editing. At worst, it's probably what it really is -- propaganda.
"The recent television ads sponsored by the Save Darfur Coalition asking President Bush to take the lead in pushing for the deployment of a UN force in Darfur are not meant in any way to bash the President, but rather to urge him to follow through on the good work he and his Administration have already begun. We are both cognizant and appreciative of the fact that the President has done more for the people of Darfur than any other world leader. In fact, it is because of his leadership thus far that we direct our pleas to President Bush now."
The above is blatant disinformation. I know, I was personally there, in Central Park, in New York City, on September 17th during the "Save Darfur" rally.
I was supposed to meet two friends whose churhes have been working with one of the religious groups advocating for international action to end the conflict and genocide in Darfur. When we didn't meet-up at our designated meeting place, at Fifth Ave and 86th street, I waited awhile and then went ahead on my own.
The first thing that was so obvious was that the event was staged more as a fund-raiser, membership drive and organizational awarness raising event for one of the lead partners in the Save Darfur coalition - Amnesty International. The Amnesty people, their placards, their insignia, the banners, their T-shirts, their stick-on-your clothing decals, their staff, their workers seeking new members far and away were a more significant presence than the symbols of the Save Darfur coalition itself - by a very wide margin.
As usual with such events, things get started late. They had some music, some singing and an African dance group as "warmup" acts for the speakers. Nothing to object about.
The majority of folks in my immediate area were friendly enough, even with their Amnesty patches on their clothes.
What surprised me, but should not have, was the incongruity of their sincerity and seeming passion for the issue along side of their utter ignorance of (1)Darfur, geographically, (2)history of the conflict there, (3) racial and ethnic distinctions between the groups in Darfur, (4)role of China in Sudan, economically today, (5)role of China and Russia blocking stronger action on Darfur in the Security Council, (6)history of just what has taken place (on Darfur) in the Security Council, who proposed actions and who defeated those proposals.
There is nothing deadlier in world geo-political crises than high passion that your cause, and the views of your leaders in that cause, are right, coupled with extreme ignorance. It is just the right mix for the prevaricators of misinformation to turn your passion to their political interest.
The first speaker was a woman (whose name I forgot) but who was presented as one of the people from one of the main "humanitarian" organizations that had been working in Darfur (as she herself had) for the last ten years. She was "moderate" enough, while ending with an obvious "lead in" for the next speaker, suggesting that America alone, through its leaders, can change the course of what's happening in Darfur.
That was the "right" opening for the speach by Madeline Halfbright. Here was the Clintonista who sat on the Security Council and tolerated the genocide in Rwanda, preaching to her audience that George Bush must be asleep or he (all by himself) would have brought more action at the United Nations by now.
She was not the last speaker (to thousands) to say directly to the audience that if the United Nations failed to act, the voters should make George Bush pay for that failure in November.
I think it was mid-speech of the 2nd or third speaker after Miss Halfbright that I got up and left in disgust.
The general tone of the event had become another "bash Bush" cause and openly ignored the facts and particularly the facts that the United States UN delegation has been the most forceful Security Council delegation on Darfur and that each "appeasing" action has been forced on the Security Council by either China, Russia, or France with the applause (and votes) from the sidelines from any Arab or "third world" delegations.
One speaker as much as said that (and I'll paraphrase)
"if George Bush really wanted to, he could force the security council votes" we need to end the genocide.
The whole thing was, for Darfur, a real farce and for NY lefties a pre-November pep rally; nothing more. In sum, it showed what phonies the "human rights" organizations really are. They do not exist to promote human rights. The "Human rights" agenda is simply a political tool, with no real underlying morality.
Given the honest participation of many religious organizations in the efforts to help those in Darfur, the Central Park event was a bummer, even though I could have predicted much of the event that disgusted me.
I think we should be writing to our religious friends and asking that their organizations sever their association with the present "Save Darfur" coaltion and continue to work as their own group, without Amnesty International and its political fellow-travelors.
But in their minds the statements on the website give them an "out" against criticism. And I imagine they will use the 30-second defense regarding the TV commercial - that there simply wasn't time to tell the whole story.
But that falls flat given they didn't tell the whole story in the print campaign.
"if George Bush really wanted to, he could force the security council votes" we need to end the genocide.
Amazing. If Bush ever threatened or strong-armed a Security Council member, the shrieks from the left would deafening.
without Amnesty International and its political fellow-travelors.
Amnesty is big into a fall membership drive at the moment.
From the same crowd that decries that Bush seeks to go it alone in the world.
Very interesting.....like I posted earlier..the last line of this ad is "Please President Bush, stop the genocide"....it all fits now!
Instead of this:
Please, Mr. President. Beyond politics, beyond borders, beyond religion, there is the moral imperative to save lives. Mr. President, the world is waiting. The lives of two million people hang on your every word tomorrow. Please don't let them down.
Try this.
President Bush and America have done more to recognize that beyond borders, beyond religion, there is the moral imperative to save lives. We must keep up this good work. The lives of two million people depend upon it. Please give President Bush your support.
More honest. And, maybe, a little more effective...
Which is to say, "What thirty-second problem?"
Liberals! Bah!!!
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