Times Of India Group Goes For A Christian Magazine
FN
It’s like an Examiner or The New Leader packed with glossy adverts and
printed in full colour. It has articles from pockets of Christian
India. And it has some prominent names of journalists of a Christian
background splattered across its pag
From: Mario Goveia
> I live in the USA which has perspicaciously become an economic
> and military superpower by gladly using other people's brains
> and other people's money and every resident, whether citizen
> or not, is provided with all the considerable constitutiona
Mario Goveia wrote:
>
> India has traditionally been ultra paranoid of foreign investment for
> reasons that escape me, because it prevents badly needed investment money
> flowing into the country. We are seeing this narrow minded attitude in >
> some of the comments on Goa
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 12:26:21 -0700 (PDT)
From: Vinay Natekar
Her pride and arrogance reached the climax ?during the period of emergency. The
sharp decline of moral values in politics and administration that took place in
Indira Gandhi's time had never been witnessed before. she acquired comp
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 12:46:31 +0530
From: "Dr. U. G. Barad"
I found Mario Goveia's personal remarks on Selma Carvalho insensitive. And I
think they would divert the attention from her other points.
Mario observes:
Dr. Barad,
INSENSITIVE? MOI? GOD FORBID!
What points are you worried about
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 16:15:09 -0400
From: "J. Colaco < jc>"
response to the voice of reason on GoaNet aka Missao Zalem:
Bringing Mario back to his favourite topic -
The Lancet, Volume 364, Issue 9448, Pages 1857-1864
available at
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 20:44:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: Gabriel de Figueiredo
I was able to purchase two properties in the UK without ever having been a UK
national
Mario observes:
Doesn't this depend on the laws of each country?
India has traditionally been ultra paranoid of foreign investment for
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:01:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: Carvalho
Soter D'Souza is fooling himself if he thinks that gram sabha disarray is an
"urban elitist" problem created by the "ambitions and greed of the rich and
famous". When I have a little time I will write a long post on exactly how much
a
Mario Goveia wrote: [1]
What about "since 1961" did you fail to understand, or did you miss
the fact that December 1961 is when Goa went from a colonial
dictatorship to becoming part of the Indian democracy?
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:32:49 -0400
From: "J. Colaco < jc>"
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:27:28 +0530
From: Ana Maria de souza-Goswami
2. A couple friends of mine, both with British passports. She of Indian
origin with an OCI card, he a white British with a PIO card have bought a
place in Goa in her name. All very legal.
Mario wonders:
How does a white
Mario Goveia wrote:
I could have sworn that all those people lining up across Goa to vote
in local, state and federal elections since 1961 were all Goans:-))
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:09:21 -0400
From: "J. Colaco < jc>"
You could have sworn a lot of things based on your c
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:19:20 + (GMT)
From: Bernado Colaco
Goa is occupied without any autonomy.
Mario observes:
It looks like the news is not getting through to wherever Bernardo lives:-))
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:35:21 +1000
From: "Ruby Goes"
http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/column_mumbai-is-racist-so-stop-slamming-oz_1268877
Goanetters,
Have a lovely weekend.
Rubygoes in peaceful Sydney.
Mario observes:
The column in the link above, titled "Mumbai is racist, so stop slamming O
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:30:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: Gabriel de Figueiredo
Well, there *were* "checks and balances" in place pre-Dec 61.
Mario observes:
Hey, Gabriel,
Everyone knows that "checks and balances" throughout India can be unbalanced by
some well placed checks, preferably for Pounds o
The world lost two of its towering icons from the 70's yesterday. Farrah
Fawcett finally succumbed after a long and courageous battle with cancer while
Michael Jackson collapsed and died under questionable circumstances.
Fawcett reminds us of an earlier period where a woman with a smile that
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:45:03 -0700 (PDT)
From: Vinay Natekar
34 Years Back on this day the 25th June 1975 was the blackest day in Post
Independence India when Indira Gandhi who heading the dynastic Congress Party
imposed an Internal Emergency in India to suppress her opponents and not due t
http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=184191
Excerpt:
A visit to Thailand takes the Indian aback because the civilisation is so
advanced. We're used to landing in cities and discovering that they are more
modern than ours, and have superior infrastructure. Indeed, it's not easy for
th
Listen to "perfect pitch" from a 6-year-old British prodigy:
http://www.tagtele.com/videos/voir/19214/1/
http://www.tagtele.com/videos/voir/7383/1/
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:13:30 -0400
From: "J. Colaco < jc>"
Duck the question: Were Goans given the choice to autonomously decide
their future?
Mario responds:
I could have sworn that all those people lining up across Goa to vote in local,
state and federal elections since 1961 were all Go
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:48:47 + (GMT)
From: Bernado Colaco
Tumultuous moments for a few rascal traitors of Goa. Goa was run by Goans and
had rule of law. Wonder if there is any today?
Mario responds:
Bernardo,
Thanks for this dispatch from the distant planet of Macau:-)) I had no idea
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:34:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: Gilbert Lawrence
Not long ago, a poster from Holland wrote to me privately requesting
information on the inquisition in Goa. I asked the poster if she had researched
the atrocities of the Dutch in its colonies; of which we only know only a
lit
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:02:36 +0100
From: ignatius fernandes
I still don't get it, how could Goa have freedom fighters. When I look at
history books and the Indian propaganda it was the Indian Union army, navy, and
the air force who ousted the Portuguese out of Goa.
So where were these Goa
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 16:04:47 -0400
From: basilio Monteiro
Today the history of Inquisition is a convenient tool in many hands
with disparate motives. In some hands it serves to keep the Church
forever on the defensive; for others to excuse or justify their
disenchantment with the Church. The
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:37:44 -0700 (PDT)
From: Gabriel de Figueiredo
Copping a fair gobful
Andrew Bolt
June 19, 2009
UNTIL last week, when a black man and a white man bashed Sunny Bajaj, I thought
I could tell a racist thug from a good one. Not that I thought the difference
mattered much
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:51:41 -0400
From: Pandu Lampiao
Goan freed_m fight*rs is a lame bunch who are living off handouts. Are
they still around?
Mario responds:
Hey, Pandurang, please put away whatever you are smoking or drinking, yaar - it
could probably get you arrested:-))
Make up you
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:56:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: samir_kele...@yahoo.com
Now, we have still not got the answer to the question whether JC exists
or not. And if he indeed exists, is he a Monis or something else ? :-)
Mario observes:
The "entity" known to us as JC provides questions, not answers
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:49:28 +0530
From: Sapna Shahani
I'm flattered that you looked me up on Google and found that I produced a
video news report about the Da Vinci Code movie. I'm sure it's easy to jump
to conclusions again that I'm really a Hindu nationalist communal
troublemaker, but I'm
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:06:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: Santosh Helekar
BTW, there is no such thing as allopathy. Allopathy is a bogus term invented by
the founder of homeopathy in the 19th century to separate his pre-scientific
and unscientific practices with the pre-scientific and unscientific pra
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:00:37 -0400
From: Roland Francis
Gabriel,
My apology for any offence caused to you. There was no intention of doing so.
I was being flippant, but it didn't seem to have come out right.
No personal insults were intended at all.
Mario adds:
Roland, what are we going to
From: Roland Francis
> Of course Gabriel, you will want that Goans will be exempt from such
> an orientation requirement since we do not need to be told how to
> conduct ourselves and I would totally agree :-))
>
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 05:13:10 -0700 (PDT)
From: Gabriel de Figueiredo
I disagr
2009/6/12 Sapna Shahani
As a non-Goan who's lived here on and off for 20 years, I'm very curious about
Goa's history with the Inquisition. How is it that the gory history of Goa's
past remains virtually unknown by outsiders or tourists?
The Basilica of Bom Jesus is a beautiful building but I
I recently took issue with the assertions of some that a government run health
care system is an efficient way to provide health care for all, and showed that
such systems in operation for decades in Canada and Britain have led to growing
rationing of serious medical procedures as small groups
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:14:00 -0400
From: Roland Francis
What is the point here is that combined with these virtues,
Indians are remarkably lacking in self confidence.
The net result of all this is that people from India have a large
millstone round their necks when they are in societies othe
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 17:31:13 +0200
From: Alfred de Tavares
Arre...Ali...baba!
Whatever, then, went wrong in New Orleans???
Mario responds:
Now, Tio, wait just a minute. What happened in Nawlins had nothing to do with
weather forecasting. The folks down in Nawlins knew exactly what wa
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 13:28:44 -0700 (PDT)
From: Gilbert Lawrence
1. In the USA, generally liberal pro-Israeli / Jewish groups have teamed up
with right-wing conservative / Christian groups. Some in the right-wing
religious movement have never liked the idea of peace in the Mid-East. Their
th
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2009 00:41:54 -0400
From: "Bosco D'Mello"
The 'respected' Fraser Institute is a right-leaning, conservative think-tank
and registered charity.
Mario responds:
On the other hand, Bosco and his cronies are left-leaning, liberal individuals
who have apparently never heard of a
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:28:58 -0400
From: Michael Ali
Here in New York weather forecasting is extremely accurate right up to the
hour. If the weather-guy says it will rain by noon...then it does rain by
noon.
Mario observes:
Doesn't it depend on WHEN the weatherman says it will rain by noo
> Mario wrote:
>
> I wonder if Mervyn has spoken with any Canadians before writing this.
> If he had he would have discovered that the Canadian quality life style
> includes being put on a medical waiting list for anything more serious
> than a hang nail:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/26/inter
Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 22:41:36 -0400
From: Roland Francis
Before I get to where I am going, FN's remarks about the
meteorologists being mostly wrong in Goa contrasts starkly with their
counterparts in Canada where they are mostly right. That too weather
forecasting in Canada can be a pretty tric
Mario Goveia wrote:
> The morons obsessed with the absolute size of the deficits
> rarely stop to consider that it is not the absolute size of
> the deficit that matters but the deficit as a percentage of
> GDP, which in Cheney's world, since 1980, were in a range of
These are sentences actually typed by Medical secretaries in NHS (National
Health System) Greater Glasgow:-))
1. The patient has no previous history of suicides.
2. Patient has left her white blood cells at another hospital.
3. Patient's medical history has been remarkably insignificant wi
http://www.carolineglick.com/e/2009/06/the-end-of-americas-strategic.php
Excerpt:
FROM AN Israeli perspective, Pres. Barack Obama's speech today in Cairo was
deeply disturbing. Both rhetorically and programmatically, Obama's speech was a
renunciation of America's strategic alliance with Israel
> Mario observes:
>
> Good one, Marlon, but, I guess it takes one to know
> one. Besides, Dick Cheney never said that.
>
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 21:52:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: Marlon Menezes
Yes he did. Do a google on it. This is what the Weekly Standard, a conservative
publication says about his com
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 17:55:38 -0700 (PDT)
From: Gilbert Lawrence
President Obama's speech in Cairo.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/04/obama-cairo-speech-video_n_211210.html
Mario adds:
In my opinion Obama had good intentions but this was mostly wasted by Obama's
obsequious and appeas
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 09:01:39 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mervyn Lobo
Looks like the US focus is on the costs of providing medical services.
This is a significant difference from the Canadian focus which is?on providing
a quality life style for its residents.
Mario responds:
I wonder if Mervyn has sp
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 10:49:55 -0700 (PDT)
From: marlon menezes
The former US Vice Moron, Dick Cheney said that deficits (ie. debt) did not
matter.
Mario observes:
Good one, Marlon, but, I guess it takes one to know one. Besides, Dick Cheney
never said that.
Marlon wrote:
The result was h
Isabella Rebello-Hamm notes:
You are right JC. Nobody is comfortable with filth!
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 07:02:06 -0400
From: "J. Colaco < jc>"
Isabella, That may not be exactly true.
Reading through some of the posts here on GoaNet, it appears that
there are those who do not mind the filth
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 17:59:50 -0500
From:
Please let me know if there are any goan happenings in Chicago or Indiana this
June?
Mario responds:
Peter,
Check this out by visiting, http://goaofchicago.bravehost.com/
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 21:07:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: Gilbert Lawrence
Yesterday was a red-letter day for American industry. General Motors, the
largest private company in the USA, and perhaps the world, filed for bankruptcy.
Mario responds:
All GM has done so far is to file for legal protection f
Santosh Helekar wrote:
[1] The man appears to be making up stories either in self-interest or
because of some problem.
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 19:47:47 -0400
From: "J. Colaco < jc>"
He said: "Arre yaar, dal nicche gir gayee, or kutta kha gaya" ( As I was
bringing the pot of dal up (to your apa
Date: Mon, 1 Jun 2009 19:08:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mervyn Lobo
The US Govt today became the owner of General Motors. As one Toronto paper
explained, the US govt will also "simultaneously serve as the company's
regulator, tax collector, customer. pension backstop and lender." I love it.
Mario r
Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 15:26:36 +
From: Naguesh Bhatcar
It is not by chance that kids of Indians, do well at these US Spelling Bee or
Geographic Bee. They take great pains to push their kids to do it.
Parents of Indian kids are known to put a lot of pressure on their kids to
stand out. It
--- On Thu, 5/28/09, Gilbert Lawrence wrote:
>
> If scientific (expensive) medicines can use the placebo effect
> as the studies show, why would not the same pathways apply
> to / be used by Ayurveda, homeopathy, alternative
> medicines, nutraceuticals, etc.?
>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 21:13:08 -0
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,522705,00.html
Excerpt:
Cool and collected, Kavya Shivashankar wrote out every word on her palm and
always ended with a smile. The 13-year-old Kansas girl saved the biggest smile
for last, when she rattled off the letters to "Laodicean" to become the
nation
Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 18:10:08 -0700 (PDT)
From: Gilbert Lawrence
More recently, I suspected you are vile to everybody who does not have your
bias. You proved me right, and you took the cake. You are obnoxious towards
your own views - that is if you have any. Instead of knowing the issues, a
Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 05:47:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: Gilbert Lawrence
You should know my favorite phrase, "The eyes sees / reads what the mind
knows".
Mario responds:
Thanks for confirming AGAIN what we have known for some time, that your
preconceived agenda controls what you see/read.
Gilber
Maurice D'Mello wrote:
HELLO MARIO, You
commented that Cuban government is bad but people are good. But you
did not say White Amiricans are sneaking into Cuba, although American
government BARS them...are they not traitors?
Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 08:20:20 -0400
From: "J. Colaco < jc>"
Dear M
On Sat, 5/23/09, Gilbert Lawrence wrote:
>
> The last post of mine on this thread
> generated some interesting responses. Of course, NONE of
> the responses related to "the real purpose of this post
> " (see below)? The responses we read were the
> classic, "Catch the bull by the tail", and
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 13:37:01 -0400
From: MD
Thank you for the recommendation. Actually I want to visit Cuba and
would like to see for myself, as I heard even Americans travel to a
third country and visit Cuba and the general comment is Cubans treat
them well.
Mario responds:
Of course they
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 14:53:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: Gilbert Lawrence
Just for the record, you and I are MERE messengers on this issue. So do not
take ownership of the information. I placed for the Goanet readers, the
'Left wing / Paul Bagala' perspective and you placed the 'Right wing
/ Rush Limba
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 19:45:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: Gilbert Lawrence
You continue to tickle me pink, by once again assuring us that "church going,
create positive and healthy mental attitude which is what is behind the
beneficial effects." Goanet atheists have pounded us into submission with the
Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 12:49:29 -0400
From: Roland Francis
Johanna the Icelandic runner-up of the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest.
Is she a beauty?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW3ivrbq7Tw&feature=related
Mario responds:
Yes, she is.
How come they all sing in an American accent in Europe?
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 03:51:32 -0400
From: Joe Lobo
I happened to be watching last night on the Overseas Service
of BBC- TV an enlightening segment on Iraq where a BBC TV
correspondent was getting the views of average middle class
educated Iraquis on the state
Date: Sat, 16 May 2009 22:06:57 -0400
From: MD
Hope I am not intruding.
Mario responds:
No, you are not intruding, especially if you, too, want to be considered for
the Fidel Castro Award:-))
MD wrote:
Jesse Ventura (the former governor of Minnesota) On Larry King Live
(CNN): "You Give Me a
Mario Goveia observes:
I thought it was my cognitive function that was leading me to go to church -
not the other way around:-))
Now I can't wait to see the results of a similar study that examines the
effects of regular attendance at one's bridge club on one's cognitive
fun
1. Lady Astor to Winston Churchill, 'If you were my husband, Sir, I'd give you
poison.'
Churchill replied, 'If you were my wife, Madam, I'd drink it.'
2. A member of Parliament to Disraeli, 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows
or of some unspeakable disease.'
Disraeli replied, 'That depe
Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 16:02:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: Gilbert Lawrence
The Saddam and Al Qaeda alleged links and training. The source of the
information which led to the disastrous Iraq war. Answer: False information
obtained by "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/p
Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 09:13:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: Santosh Helekar
The claim made by the Pope that condom use "even aggravates the problems", as
far as AIDS is concerned, is demonstrably false.
Mario observes:
I believe the Pope's comments must be taken in context. As a moral leader he
does
Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 20:06:14 -0700 (PDT)
From: Carvalho
What we should have is a contraceptive that contains unneccesary spillage from
the mouth.
Mario observes:
>From your relative silence recently may we gather that you are working on
>developing one for yourself:-))
Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 17:14:21 -0700 (PDT)
From: Gilbert Lawrence
Conclusion. Church attendance appears to be beneficial for maintaining
cognitive function of older persons. Church attendance moderates the impact of
clinically relevant depressive symptoms on subsequent cognitive function.
M
FN wrote:
[1] Incidentally, Robert Mugabe is today considered the pariah of the
'international community'. We've seen the impact on the Zimbabwean economy
etc
Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 13:07:33 -0400
From: "J. Colaco < jc>"
FN does not tell us if he (FN) too admired him and on what basis?
Mar
Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 16:57:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: Marlon Menezes
Basically, what Mario is saying below is that people who happen to be muslims
are "different" from the rest of humanity and that only the christians
(apparently only those in the US qualify) have the task and ability of doing
wha
A PIECE OF INDIA IN USA AND CANADA!
It's tiffin time!
On the heads and bicycle racks of an army of delivery men, more than 200,000
shiny tiffin boxes course like quicksilver through the grotty streets of Mumbai
each day.
Like clockwork, these stackable metal pots arrive at the desks of the c
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 23:31:23 -0400
From: "Averthan"
[Goanet] OF CONDOMS AND CONUNDRUMS
Excerpt:
"The modern world needs to be reminded, as Pope Benedict XVI has sought to do,
that tragedies like HIV/AIDS cannot be cured merely by investing more money or
providing more condoms. The root li
Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 13:05:40 +0530
From: "Valmiki Faleiro"
What follows is a serialised 3-part story of a recent debate at Goanet. It was
carried in the ?Herald? (Goa) editions between May 8-10, 2009. Happy reading,
but if you?re threatened with martyrdom from boredom, please don?t click
?
Mario wrote:
> Marlon is actually the leading candidate for the Goanet Hugo Chavez
> award.
Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 00:21:14 +0530
From: Frederick [FN] Noronha *
Btw, could someone consider *me* for this contest, if Mario would be decent
enough to institute such a priviledge?
Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 20:54:06 -0700 (PDT)
From: Santosh Helekar
Here is another one, much more generalized:
"Shantidoot was threatened and intimidated as a few of his limmericks were
not well taken or appreciated. It has become another trait of goans to
threaten and intimidate those we do not
Marlon Menezes:
> Why does Mario persist with his Muslims be damned rhetoric? Is he
> competing with the other M for the Goanet McCarthy award for anti-
> christian paranoia?
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 10:49:04 +0530
From: Marshall Mendonza
Where ignorance is bliss, tis folly to be wise.
Mario r
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 03:08:05 +0530
From: Frederick [FN] Noronha *
At the end of the day, I am still left wondering how people can
believe "the lone voice of reason, truth and peace on Goanet" can buy
into this they're-going-to-take-over-the-world-by-having-more-babies
logic.
Dr. Barad wrote:
> Ref the enclosed article. I was interested in the remarks by Father
> Cedric Prakash, when he says: "Modi cannot nurture prime ministerial
> dreams unless he is acceptable to the Western world." So, exactly what
> is the consultative process that India has with the Western
Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 05:44:03 +0530
From: Frederick [FN] Noronha *
It's interesting to see the post-Cold War search for a New Enemy
(Islam is unfortunately the prime target) bring Rightwingers and
Islamophobes of all kinds onto the same side.
Mario responds:
It's interesting
Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 23:46:05 -0400
From: Roland Francis
An undeniable trend, or skewed statistics designed by fundamentalist
Christians to scare.
Which is it?
See the seven and a half minute YouTube video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-3X5hIFXYU
Mario responds:
Do you have some facts to
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,518939,00.html
Excerpt:
"Mein Kampf," Adolf Hitler's autobiography, is flying off the
shelves at Indian book stores as business students look to Germany's former
dictator for inspiration, the Telegraph reported.
Indian students see the book as a self-improve
Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 23:04:39 -0700 (PDT)
From: Samir Kelekar
http://oheraldo.in/pagedetails.asp?nid=21357&cid=14
Mario responds:
These are all excellent suggestions for economic development in Goa. Why
aren't enterprising Indian businessmen not investing in these opportunities?
Don't we
Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 07:13:01 +0530
From: Frederick [FN] Noronha *
Please note, I didn't come out aggressively to suggest that Mario's
original statement was incorrect (though there could be further scope
for debate) but only put up a tentative question saying:
> Which Latin A
Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 14:13:14 +0100
From: Mistri Ganguli
It was once said that a black man would be president, "when pigs fly!"
Indeed, 100 days into Obama's presidency.. the Swine Flu!
Mario adds:
Perhaps it was said by someone who had no idea what he or she was talking
about:-)) To
Fr. Ivo C. de Souza wrote:
> Hodgkin's disease is incurable.
Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 17:27:42 -0700 (PDT)
From: Santosh Helekar
I have no idea why this type of dangerous false information regarding public
health and safety is being spread in this forum. How far will this parade of
ignorance
Date: Sun, 03 May 2009 22:54:16 -0700
From: Viviana
I've always said that if you can survive it, having cancer is an experience
that transforms your life in a positive way.
Mario adds:
Realizing that I could have been silenced prematurely, it made me determined to
become Goanet's lone voice
Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 07:26:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: Gilbert Lawrence
Yet, solitary / anecdotal cases of success OR failure is not science or
scientific. Unfortunately, individuals (despite their acclaimed principles)
use what ever they can for their own advantage and to make their own point. Is
http://www.foxnews.com/photoessay/0,4644,7145,00.html#6_0
A picture is worth a thousand words. Way to go, FREIDA!
Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 18:48:14 +0530
From: Marshall Mendonza
http://www.tehelka.com/story_main41.asp?filename=Ws090509Ram_Puniyani.asp
Mario observes:
Now that the Indian Supreme Court has ordered an independant investigation into
Narendra Modi's involvement into Godhra and other atrocities,
Date: 2 May 2009 09:01:30 -
From: "jane gillian rodrigues"
The surgery was performed by Dr. Lusito D'Souza, followed by radiation.
You will be happy to know, that my mother is now 70 years old, lives in a
clean, green and healthy state like Goa and has been Cancer-free for the last
25 y
Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 21:43:56 +0530
From: "floriano"
"Exactly", I said " this is bad news". "I shall be back for a second round
with you and you will find no blockages whatsoever."
That was that.
Today, it is over a year on from that day and I am happy to say that I
practice with my foot-ba
Dr. U. G. Barad who wrote:
1: NO WATER SUPPLY IN MARGAO..
Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 16:15:12 -0400
From: "J. Colaco < jc>"
Yes, but as long as sea water is available, Modgomcars have no
excuse for not bathing.
Mario asks:
JC, with all due respect, isn't bathing intended to cleanse the bod
As an Indian Christian, and also the lone voice of reason, truth and peace on
Goanet, I found this open letter to L.K. Advani by a devout Hindu IPS officer
fascinating. The author, Mr. Sreekumar, using details from Hindu philosophy
and teachings to make his case basically challenges the BJP's
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:22:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: Santosh Helekar
Fr. Ivo appears to be not the least bit familiar with peer-reviewed medical
scientific literature, and as a professional priest and theologian, clearly and
understandably, does not have the background and training required to ev
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:51:29 -0500
From: Antonio Menezes
I am not aware how Goans in Goa could be accused of racism. For racism
to exist in Goa it presupposes that there are people in Goa with skins darker
than the one Goans usually have.
Mario observes:
Racism is the wrong word to use fo
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:07:48 +0530
From: Marshall Mendonza
*New Delhi: The Supreme Court Monday asked a special probe panel formed by
it to look into the allegations that Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi
along with over 50 other politicians and government officials had aided and
abetted s
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:11:30 +0530
From: "Fr. Ivo C. de Souza"
We are not going to 're-incarnate', Mario. This is against Science.
Mario responds:
Unfortunately for Padre Ivo and JGR, I have been re-incarnated and sent to keep
an eye out for poppycock on Goanet:-))
However, Padre Ivo says
Santosh Helekar wrote:
> But it is important to allow people in a democracy and a free society to
> express their opinions freely and fearlessly against those in power, and
> those who are entrusted with duty and responsibility towards the public.
> Those who live in autocratic countries like
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