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Weekend Readings - (USA)
Early reading list this week. I’m always interested in how cultures affect the way we organize ourselves politically and economically. See how Germany, Norway, and Canada are faring this recession. The actions and reactions are results of something more deep-rooted than a wholesale application of capitalism. Then I stumbled upon a number of older articles on what it meant to be an introvert. A fellow Twitterer pointed me to more evidence that as a marginalized and misunderstood group, we
http://www.investoralist.com/weekend-readings-list-may-15-2009/
deborah jeane palfrey, the whore stigma, and the systematic silencing of sex workers. « femini - (USA)
http://feministrising.com/2008/05/02/thoughts-on-deborah-jeane-palfrey/
Dean on Palin’s health care claims: ‘She made that up’ - (USA)
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean told CNN Sunday that former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin had deliberately made up charges that the Obama administration’s health care bill would lead to euthanasia. “About euthanasia, they're just totally erroneous. She just made that up,” he said. “Just like the ‘Bridge to Nowhere’ that she supposedly didn't support. Embedded video from CNN Video “There's nothing like euthanasia in the bill. I practiced medicine
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/08/09/dean-on-palin%E2%80%99s-health-care-claims-%E2%80%98she-made-that-up%E2%80%99/
Movie Review - Angels & Demons - (USA)
You are here: Home » Entertainment » Movie Review - Angels & Demons Entertainment, Movie Reviews Tags: Angels & Demons, da vinci code, movie review, Tom HanksPosted on May 14th, 2009 by Ilan Mester “Angels & Demons” is worth seeing, even for those who haven’t read the Dan Brown novel of the same title. It has thrill moments, chill moments and surprising revelations. Who would have ever thought Ewan McGregor could pull off playing a church official?In the second movie of the “Da Vinci Code” fra
http://www.andpop.com/2009/05/14/movie-review-angels-demons-2/
Sarah Palin sees the EVILS of OBAMACARE - (USA)
Palin calls Obamacare evil Mark Thiessen - Associated Press Writer - 8/8/2009 ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin called President Barack Obama’s health plan “downright evil” Friday in her first online comments since leaving office, saying in a Facebook posting that he would create a “death panel” that would deny care to the neediest Americans. “The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in fro
http://www.desertconservative.com/2009/08/09/sarah-palin-sees-the-evils-of-obamacare/
Quote Details: Cullen Hightower: Laughing at our mistakes... - The Quotations Page - (USA)
http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/27658.html
The death of Oscar Wilde - (USA)
1900 Oscar Fingal O'Flaherty Wills Wilde (b. 1854), Irish wit, playwright, self-professed anarchist, and gay pioneer, died of cerebral meningitis, following an ear infection, at the age of 46 in a Paris rooming house. For he who lives more lives than one, more deaths than one must die.Dublin-born Wilde published in 1890 The Soul of Man Under Socialism, which is characterized by its libertarian non-conformism. In 1895, he was condemned to two years hard labour for his homosexuality. He wrote De
http://wilsonsalmanac.blogspot.com/2008/11/death-of-oscar-wilde.html
Video arcades' last gasp -- chicagotribune.com - (USA)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/explore/chi-arcades-end-0605jun05,0,3830088.story
Fostering an unaccompanied child from abroad….. - (USA)
Many foster carers these days are being asked to look after children from abroad who have arrived in this country unaccompanied. It can be rewarding work, seeing a child develop and integrate in to the UK, learn English and gain confidence. These children are often very motivated to work hard and achieve at school and they value the support and guidance carers offer. The case examples below (not their real names) are real examples of children who have been placed in our Fostercare agency . Care
http://www.article-reprint.com/business/1876/fostering-an-unaccompanied-child-from-abroad/
Mumbai Murders and James Kim Family Tragedy: How Do We Explain/ Understand/ Those Who Strike at The - (USA)
Tell me why, how. I myself, run out of ideas, words, concepts when I try to understand the unrelieved ugly. I came to my desk to write about two persons murdered in Mumbai, Alan Scherr and his daughter Naomi, age 13… he a meditation teacher and astrologer and his daughter an irrepressible, lively soul. They belonged to a group called Synchronicity Community, which seems an offshoot of transcendental meditation. I’ve dear spiritual family in Mumbai for 30 some years now, and yet I have neve
http://themoderatevoice.com/society/psychology/24711/mumbai-murders-and-james-kim-family-tragedy-how-do-we-explain-understand-those-who-strike-at-the-hopeful-and-already-heartbroken/
Touching the void - (USA)
For Ute Lemper, the smoky-voiced chanteuse who has turned the German songbook of the 1920s into the core of a global theatrical presence, music is not a passion or a skill or a vocation. It is far more visceral than that. For her, music was a means of escaping the suffocating small-mindedness of her Catholic German upbringing. It was the way she discovered she could unleash her inner demons. "I was able to express in art a lot more than in life, as everything was so tight around me," she sa
http://kobason.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!C873246EA6369396!28679.entry
Monster.com Founder Starts Social Networking Site for the Dead - (USA)
Tributes.com will use government death records to make it easy to start an online memorial for the dearly departed.
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/startups/news/2008/05/tributes
Is it time to give modern day pirates a moral “break”? - (USA)
Pirates are a cultural icon, but can we deal when the myth becomes a reality? GUEST COLUMN: AMY LEASK — We’ve been incredibly spoiled by the likes of Johnny Depp and Orlando Bloom. Thanks to them we’ve become enamored with knee-high leather boots, gold hoop earrings and shoulder-perched parrots. Very few of us made it through childhood without donning an eye patch and blackening out a tooth or two at Halloween. Well into our adult years, it’s still acceptable to sport shoes with skulls
http://www.soulscode.com/is-it-time-to-give-modern-day-pirates-a-moral-break/
Girl's suicide leaves dozens ill from fumes - CNN.com - (USA)
A 14-year-old Japanese girl killed herself by mixing laundry detergent with cleanser, releasing fumes that also sickened 90 people in her apartment house, police said Thursday as they grappled with a spate of similar suicides.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/04/24/detergent.suicide.ap/index.html
Sarah Palin Telling Bald-faced Lies About Healthcare Reform - (USA)
Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin has adopted a brazen approach to countering Pres. Barack Obama’s proposed healthcare reforms: outright fabrication and unscrupulous lying . She has begun to make the 100% false allegation that Pres. Obama’s reforms would create a “death panel” tasked with promoting euthanasia, and she is now calling reform “downright evil”. It is perhaps the single most irresponsible and reprehensible lie told in the American political sphere in recent years. Palin even chos
http://www.casavaria.com/cafesentido/2009/08/09/3939/sarah-palin-telling-bald-faced-lies-about-healthcare-reform/
Stray Questions for: Rose Tremain - (USA)
Helen AtkinsonRose TremainRose Tremain’s latest novel, “The Road Home,” is out in paperback this month.What are your working on?I’m working on a new novel, “Trespass,” set mainly in the Cevennes region of southern France. At the heart of the story is a strange and violent murder. I’ve never written about violent death before and it’s been interesting to attempt this. I’ve found the actual murder scene very difficult and grueling to write – but I think/hope I’ve mastered it now. The novel is prim
http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/stray-questions-for-rose-tremain/
PALIN IS RIGHT ABOUT DEATH PANELS - (USA)
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http://www.healthcarebs.com/2009/08/09/palin-is-right-about-death-panels/
Museums wrestle with preserving art that's not made to last | csmonitor.com - (USA)
Organic materials and outmoded technology throw curveballs at curators.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0530/p13s01-alar.html
When You Think About It, Why Do Barack Obama And His Henchmen So Desperately Want To Kill Sarah Pali - (USA)
Sarah Palin, like George W. Bush, is one of those politicians who can grasp three or four political concepts, at a maximum. If you fired an unexpected question at Bush, he would hesitate, mentally consult his four basic notions, and offer a bland pass at the issue. Palin is no different. She learned, running for Vice President, that “freedom” is a wonderful thing in which to wrap your personal politics; “tyranny,” of course, works for the politics of others. And she learned that her
http://vermontdailybriefing.com/?p=1315
Press Release - Statement of U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis on death of Eunice Kennedy Shriv - (USA)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis today issued the following statement on the death of Eunice Kennedy Shriver: "This morning we lost a leader and advocate for youth and children, and a woman whose spirit transcended our society in countless ways. Eunice Kennedy Shriver was the founder of the Special Olympics and taught us the meaning of acceptance and understanding for people with intellectual disabilities. Her unique and compassionate vision blos
http://pressrelated.com/press-release-statement-of-us-secretary-of-labor-hilda-l-solis-on-death-of-eunice-kennedy-shriver.html
Has the world gone insane? A “black” Friday indeed. - (USA)
I’ll admit, we were at Sears Friday morning for Black Friday. We knew what we wanted, we found a great deal and we woke up insanely early Friday morning to go shopping. My husband and I don’t normally shop on Black Friday, but we did this year and it was actually fun. But while we were there, we saw one middle-aged gentleman LOSING IT because he had to wait 10 minutes to get his TV. I mean, the guy was STEAMED. Come on, dude, it’s 10 minutes. Big deal. And it was obvious the employees were
http://www.svmoms.com/2008/11/has-the-world-g.html
Selected headlines (mostly) from the Iranian Press - (USA)
Section 209 served same food as intelligence minister [Source: Tabnak] Alaeddin Boroujerdi, head of the Majlis foreign policy and national security commission, said prisoners held in section 209 of Evin Prison were served the same food as the intelligence minister. Section 209 of Evin Prison is under the control of the Intelligence Ministry. “I’m telling you the truth. Everyone in section 209 eats the same food as the intelligence minister because the intelligence ministry brings the
http://tehranbureau.com/selected-headlines-week/
Protest for Me, But Not for Thee - (USA)
Protest for Me, But Not for Thee By Kyle-Anne Shiver What happens when the middle class feels even more victimized than the nation’s poor? When American middle-class citizens feel that they are being steamrolled by a Changeopoly Blitzkrieg, engineered by the principalities and powers of overreaching government and corporate oligarchs? When the only answer they’re given to their just concerns about unsustainable debt is “We won.”? Well, those beleaguered middle-class folks migh
http://bsimmons.wordpress.com/2009/08/09/protest-for-me-but-not-for-thee/
The Malay Dilemma - (USA)
From New Yorker By Ian Buruma KUALA LUMPUR, May 15 — Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s voice was barely audible above the background din of chattering guests and a cocktail-bar pianist at the Hilton Hotel in Kuala Lumpur. Anwar — who had rebounded from six years in prison on corruption and sodomy charges to become the best hope for a more democratic, less corrupt Malaysia — speaks softly. He is still under constant surveillance, he said. Sensitive political business has to be handled in other
http://anwaribrahimblog.com/2009/05/15/the-malay-dilemma/
This is the first time I was made to feel like Jews - (USA)
Jump to Comments As a Christian, I occasionally remind my Jewish friends that I owe my faith to them. Indian tradition maintains that a few years after Christ’s death, one of his apostles, Thomas (‘the Doubter’), sailed to Kerala to share the Good News with his co-religionists. Jews have lived in India for thousands of years, perhaps arriving on a mission from the court of King Solomon to trade in ‘elephant’s tooth, peacocks and apes’. The Jews of Cochin are said to have been less than rece
http://therotundaramblings.wordpress.com/2008/11/30/this-is-the-first-time-i-was-made-to-feel-like-jews/
Protest against the hypocritical words of the Bishop of the Anglican Church in Singapore - (USA)
“Questionable takeover but crucial service” says the Bishop of the Anglican Church in Singapore “An alarm has been sounded on the promotion of revisionist sexuality norm” ( http://news.asiaone.com/News/the+Straits+Times/Story/A1Story20090515-141553.html ) Sounds like the Bishop is saying that questionable methods can be justified based on their ends. And that speaking up against prejudice & discrimination is a “promotion of revisionist sexuality norm”. I’m glad my Go
http://mathialee.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/protest_against_leaders/
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