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First Amendment

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:25:16 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Best quote on first amendment.

I've always had problems with "demonstrators" claiming first amendment rights to disrupt the speech of other people attempting to exercise their first amendment rights. Both sides have a right to speak their piece but neither side has a right to disrupt the other

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Study Outlines The Added 'Emotional Labor' Of Black Professional Women

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 17:10:24 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Durr and Wingfield illustrate emotional labor as performance with a quote from an African American woman who says of her workplace peers, "They…are careful to remember…'that's not professional. Remember they got the s[hit] that'll get you bit! Keep your Negro in check! Don't let it jump up and show anger, disapproval, or difference of opinion. They have to like you and think that you are as close to them as possible in thought, ideas, dress and behavior.'"

Yes, that is apparently a science data point.

The paper, "Keep Your 'N' In Check: African American Women and the Interactive Effects of Etiquette and Emotional Labor," was presented on Sunday, Aug. 3, at 2:30 p.m. at the Sheraton Boston at the American Sociological Association's 103rd annual meeting.

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Sociologists Marlese Durr of Wright State University and her co-author Adia Harvey Wingfield of Georgia State University at the the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA) say it is tougher for black women professionals than white women, lesbian women, all men, Hispanics, Latinos, Asians and even the French in America because black professionals engage in two types of "emotional performance" in the workplace that they say others do not: General etiquette and 'racialized' emotion maintenance.

And black women professionals place even more pressure on themselves, they state. Whether it's stressful, inauthentic or downright draining, Durr claims that emotional labor is "a crucial part of black women's self-presentation in work and social public spaces." These efforts to fit in can, in effect, make African American women feel isolated, alienated, and frustrated.

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Leo Tolstoy

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:59:50 GMT

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Clip Source: www.quotationspage.com

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Leo Tolstoy
Russian mystic & novelist (1828 - 1910)

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Happiness

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:46:25 GMT

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clipper's remarks: shit

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Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so... That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity.

Robertson Davies

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Phone Sex Operators

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:40:57 GMT

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clipper's remarks: “I am a straight male who speaks to women. They want me. They want me to talk to them, and to take them to another world. I’m good at it. I’m a pro. A ladies man. I speak to younger women. I speak to older women. I speak both Spanish and English. I have been thrown offers left and right. They want me to meet up and have my way with them, but I keep it only to phone conversations.”

A quote from the male operator some of the stories from the operators were very funny and gross - Hmm..I think my job was not bad after all.......

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“I’m 60 years old, have a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology from Columbia University, and married for 25 years. I have a son in his last years of college who lives at home. He’s a 4.0 with a double major in English Literature and Religion. Men call me for an inﬁnity of reasons. Of course, they call to masturbate. I call it “Executive Stress Relief.” It’s not sex; it’s a cocktail of testosterone, fueled by addiction to pornography, loneliness, and the need to hear a woman’s voice. I make twice the money I made in the corporate world. I work from home, the money transfers into my bank account daily. I’m Scheherezade: If I don’t tell stories that fascinate the Pasha, he will kill me in the morning.”

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To the caller, when I first answer, I am the inanimate Barbie. They do not know what I look like, who I am or how I feel. They can only imagine. It is my job to indulge their fantasies, to convince them that I am not a doll.

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Skin-color preference in sub-Saharan Africa

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 02:40:27 GMT

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clipper's remarks: http://evoandproud.blogspot.com/2007/07/skin-color-and-mating-preferences-among.html

Both very interesting articles . Too long to copy. Please go to source.

Clip Source: evoandproud.blogspot.com

It has long been noted that black men prefer lighter-skinned women, both in sub-Saharan Africa and in the black diaspora. For the United States, we can quote several writers. "A fair Negro woman … has such superior marriage chances that this fact is generally recognized as the major explanation of why passable women do not seem to pass out of the Negro caste as often as do passable men" (Myrdal 1944: 698). "The frequency with which Negro men choose women fairer than they are attests at least in part to the connection in the mind of the black man between fair skin and beauty" (Grier and Cobbs 1968:80). "Several research projects conducted in the last few years suggest that African-American men are more attracted to women who are lighter than they are, and that African-American women believe light skin makes them, or would make them, more appealing" (Layng 2006).

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The dignity of plants

Mon, 05 May 2008 04:31:50 GMT

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When man ceases to worship God he does not worship nothing, but worships everything.

Contrary to a widespread impression, G.K. Chesterton apparently never said that.

Still, it's a fine statement, and relevant to the modern form of Paganism which views the lives of the unborn, ready-to-be-born, or born-damaged as insignificant, but the social lives of Goldfish - and now the souls of asparagus - as sacred.

A quote from Smith at Weekly Standard:

"What is clear, however, is that Switzerland's enshrining of "plant dignity" is a symptom of a cultural disease that has infected Western civilization, causing us to lose the ability to think critically and distinguish serious from frivolous ethical concerns. It also reflects the triumph of a radical anthropomorphism that views elements of the natural world as morally equivalent to people.

Why is this happening?

Latin sayings

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 07:17:04 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A lot more at site ....Enjoy

Usus magister est optimus. -- "Practice makes perfect."

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Absentem laedit, qui cum ebrio litigat.--"He who quarrels with a drunk hurts an absentee."

Ars longa, vita brevis. -- "Art is long, life is short.

Asinus asinorum in saecula saeculorum. -- "The greatest jackass in eternity."

Bona valetudo melior est quam maximae divitiae. "Good health is worth more than the greatest wealth."

Carpe diem -- "Use the day" or "Seize the day"

Contra vim mortis non est medicamen in hortis. -- "There's no herb against the power of death.

Divide et impera. -- "Divide and conquer.

Fide, sed qui, vide. -- "Trust but take care whom."

Habent sua fata libelli. -- "Books have their fate."
Hodie mihi, cras tibi. -- "What's to me today, tomorrow to you."
Homines quod volunt credunt. -- "Men believe what they want to."
Homo homini lupus est. -- "Man is a wolf to man."
Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto. "I am human, so nothing that is human is foreign to me."

Homines quod volunt credunt. -- "Men believe what they want to."

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How to write a novel

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:11:44 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I was go about my business when a clip by

http://clipmarks.com/clipper/skydakini/ - Photo Inspired by Haruki Murakami

google Haruki Murakami and here is the story very interesting ( from noting to a novel). It is the picture of the 2 carrots that led me to Haruki Murakam. Thank you skydakini

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About writing a novel, I have almost nothing to "teach" to my students. "All you have to do is live actually. If you really wish from the bottom of your heart to write something or to express yourself to somebody else, the time is sure to come when you can write something despite the fact that you can't write anything well now. Until that time you carefully continue to pile up your daily experiences one by one as if to lay bricks one after another. For example, love someone seriously, " I say, and then some student responds that "I can do it, too," which makes all of them laugh. Another student asks "What shall I do, if such a time doesn't come to me?" Some giggle. In such an instance, without any hesitation, I quote a vocal teacher's cruel line from Orson Welles's "Citizen Kane"; "Some people can sing, others can't"

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Recycling: Houston's beer can house

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:20:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Who says 4 years in college doesn't give you assets?

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John Milkovisch spent twenty years emptying 50,000 beer cans and recycling them into cladding for his house and workshop, using the tops for a clever sun-shading system. It opens this weekend as Houston's latest tourist attraction. A quote from Mr. Milkovisch is on a wall: “They say every man should leave something to be remembered by. At least I accomplished that goal.”

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Quote of the day

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 06:48:21 GMT

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Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.

Ronald Reagan

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Quote of the Day

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:25:58 GMT

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Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
- Alfred North Whitehead

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Quote of the day

Tue, 29 Jan 2008 06:21:42 GMT

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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
- Hannah Arendt

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Buddha (563BC-483BC) - Saying

Sun, 16 Dec 2007 23:36:09 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Some of his famous quote......

Clip Source: www.ducland.com

Attachment is the source of all suffering.

He who never thinks of anything as mine' does not feel the lack of anything: he is never worried by a sense of loss.

Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

The Mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness.

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

There is only one time when it is essential to awaken. That time is now.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching.

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart, give yourself to it.

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Top 10 Quote 07

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 08:58:07 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I like ''i have a wide stand" by Senator Larry Craig of Idaho

Clip Source: cnews.canoe.ca

List of top 10 most memorable quotes of the year in United States

-1. "Don't tase me, bro." - Andrew Meyer

3. "In Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

That's some nappy-headed hos there

"I don't recall

Alberto Gonzales

-6. "There's only three things he (Rudolph Giuliani) mentions in a sentence: a noun and a verb and 9-11.

Joseph Biden

I'm not going to get into a name-calling match with somebody who has a nine per cent approval rating

"(I have) a wide stance when going to the bathroom."

Larry Craig,

Lauren Upton, South Carolina contestant in the Miss Teen USA contest

I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man." - Senator Joseph Biden

-10. "I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history." - Former president Jimmy Carter, referring to the Bush administration.

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