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Young Saudi's

Mon, 12 May 2008 11:01:09 GMT

clipped by: debbyski
clipper's remarks: "It offers young men very little in the way of entertainment, with no movie theaters and few sports facilities. If they are unmarried, they cannot even enter the malls where women shop."

I can't believe the attitude of that last comment in this clip. With two or three words, a man can get what he wants from a woman?? Women are not rational??

"When a man joined her at the table — someone they assumed was her husband — she removed her face veil, which fueled Enad and Nader’s hostility. They continued to make mocking hand gestures and comments until the couple changed tables. Even then, the woman was so flustered she held the cloth self-consciously over her face throughout her meal.
“Thank God our women are at home,” Enad said."

Ok, I can't imagine a world in which women are required to stay at home all the time. Let's reverse the situation. Suppose MEN were required to stay in the home and all I had to look at were women in the workplace, in the shopping malls, etc. (cont)

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Nader al-Mutairi stiffened his shoulders, clenched his fists and said, “Let’s do our mission.” Then the young man stepped into the cool, empty lobby of a dental clinic, intent on getting the phone number of one of the young women working as a receptionist.

Asking a woman for her number can cause a young man anxiety anywhere. But in Saudi Arabia, getting caught with an unrelated woman can mean arrest, a possible flogging and dishonor, the worst penalty of all in a society where preserving a family’s reputation depends on faithful adherence to a strict code of separation between the sexes.

The nature of men is that men are more rational. Women are not rational. With one or two or three words, a man can get what he wants from a woman. If I call someone and a girl answers, I have to apologize. It’s a huge deal. It is a violation of the house.”

Warrior Girls

Mon, 12 May 2008 09:13:29 GMT

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Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

BY THE TIME JANELLE PIERSON SPRINTED ONTO THE FIELD for the start of the Florida high-school soccer playoffs in January, she had competed in hundreds of games since joining her first team at 5.

That she was playing at all on this day, though, was a testament not to her talent but rather to her high threshold for pain, fierce independence and formidable powers of persuasion.

Janelle returned to action a little more than five months after having an operation to repair a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament, or A.C.L., in her right knee. And just 20 months before that, she suffered the same injury to her other knee.

“What’s it going to be like for them at 40 years old? They’re in so much pain now. Knees and backs and hips, and they just keep going.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Girls tend to run differently than boys — in a less-flexed, more-upright posture — which may put them at greater risk when changing directions and landing from jumps.

This Must Be Bob. I Hear His New Hip Squeaking.

Mon, 12 May 2008 09:09:34 GMT

clipped by: debbyski
clipper's remarks: “It can interrupt sex when my wife starts laughing,” said one man, who discussed the matter on the condition that he not be named.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

The first time John L. Johnson’s artificial hip squeaked, he was bending down to pick up a pine cone in his yard in Thomasville, Ga. Mr. Johnson looked up, expecting to find an animal nearby.

And Edward Heary, an apprentice appraiser in Hatboro, Pa., said clients sometimes look with embarrassment or concern at their floorboards when he walks though their homes.

As all three patients — and hundreds of others — discovered once they pinpointed the source of the noises, they had become guinea pigs in an unfolding medical mystery. Their artificial hips are made of ceramic materials that were promoted as being much more durable than older models. But for reasons not yet fully understood, their hips started to squeak, raising questions about whether the noises herald more serious malfunctions.

One study in the Journal of Arthroplasty found that 10 patients of 143 who received ceramic hips from 2003 to 2005, or 7 percent, developed squeaking

Christians Murdered Indians - Corporate Avenger

Mon, 12 May 2008 06:18:39 GMT

clipped by: BartendingBear
clipper's remarks: "Even in the initial stages of contact between European Christians and Native Indian people the stage was set for ethnocentrism, and the attitude towards the Indians was that of Christian superiority. "

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Tags: indigenous, tribal, history, ethnocentrism

The original Mother's Day (hint: it's not from Hallmark)

Mon, 12 May 2008 06:00:26 GMT

clipped by: enbar
clipper's remarks: Julia Ward Howe, who wrote the Battle Hymn of the Republic, was one of the early advocates for a national Mother's Day holiday, as an antiwar organizing effort. Here's her "Mother's Day Proclamation" from 1870.

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Women's History

Mother's Day Proclamation - 1870

by Julia Ward Howe

Arise then...women of this day!
Arise, all women who have hearts!
Whether your baptism be of water or of tears!
Say firmly:
"We will not have questions answered by irrelevant agencies,
Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage,
For caresses and applause.
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.
We, the women of one country,
Will be too tender of those of another country

To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs."

From the voice of a devastated Earth a voice goes up with
Our own. It says: "Disarm! Disarm!
The sword of murder is not the balance of justice."
Blood does not wipe our dishonor,
Nor violence indicate possession.
As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil
At the summons of war,
Let women now leave all that may be left of home
For a great and earnest day of counsel.

Tags: gender, history, women, peace, war, primary_source, america

Moyers On Democracy

Mon, 12 May 2008 01:59:05 GMT

clipped by: debbyski

Clip Source: www.latimes.com

THERE'S A Jeremiah among us and his name is Bill Moyers.

Moyers believes, deeply, that we are in danger, and terrorism is not what has driven his threat advisory to level orange.

We have fallen under the spell of money, faction, and fear, and the great American experience in creating a different future together has been subjugated to individual cunning in the pursuit of wealth and power -- and to the claims of empire, with its ravenous demands and stuporous distractions."

Over the last thirty years a well-funded and closely coordinated coalition of corporate elites, power-hungry preachers, and hard-line ideologues has mounted an aggressive drive to dismantle the public foundations and philosophy of shared prosperity and fairness in America

"When you see uncaring people in high places, everybody should be mad as hell."

Rural Schools In China Lack Students

Sat, 10 May 2008 10:39:56 GMT

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Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Residents say children as young as 12 have been recruited by child labor rings, equipped with fake identification cards, and transported hundreds of miles across the country to booming coastal cities, where they work 12-hour shifts to produce much of the world’s toys, clothes and electronics.

“Last year I had 30 students. This year there are only 14. All the others went outside to find work,” said Ji Ke Xiaoming, 35, a primary school teacher whose students in Erwu Village are mostly ages 12 to 14. “You know, we are very poor. Some families can’t even afford a bag of salt.”

China is now investigating whether hundreds, perhaps thousands, of poor children of the Yi ethnic minority group in Liangshan were lured or even kidnapped to work in factories that are increasingly desperate for the kind of cheap labor that powered China to prosperity over the past two decades.

Illinois Man Bags 92 Pound Carp

Sat, 10 May 2008 10:33:26 GMT

clipped by: debbyski
clipper's remarks: OMG!! This is kinda a wet dream for most of us in WV and he bagged it with a compound bow; that cheater! I would have rather seen him bring it in on 3 pound test while fishing for bluegill. I gotta forward this one to hubby if I can get him to open his email

Clip Source: www.thestate.com

Darin Opel is allergic to fish. If he eats one or something that has been fried in the same grease, the reaction swells his throat shut.

"That's why my buddies like to go fishing with me," said Opel, a 40-year-old operations manager from Worden. "I can catch them and handle them, but I can't eat them. They're the ones that get to take the fish home."

Nobody will be getting the fish Opel caught Sunday -- except maybe the Guiness Book of World Records.

Bowfishing for gar from the shore in backwater above the Melvin Price Lock and Dam No. 26 on the Illinois side of the Mississippi River near Alton, Opel shot a 92-pound, 8-ounce bighead carp with a compound bow and arrow.

"It was real heavy, like lifting a refrigerator," said Opel, who ripped his jeans on the arrow sticking from the back of the carp's head during the ruckus. "Once he got out of the water, he started fighting hard. He beat me up pretty good. He definitely got a few licks in."

Dust Jacket Review

Sat, 10 May 2008 00:56:17 GMT

clipped by: zizzy

Clip Source: www.dustjacketreview.com

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Pass The Presents Along

Thu, 08 May 2008 23:38:06 GMT

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Clip Source: www.opednews.com

"A woman puts her arm in a sweater,"- said my elderly aunt, "and out comes her mother's hand."

I tag my closing phone conversation with my daughter by telling her to drive safely. I put the phone down and see my wife standing, staring at me. "You sounded just like your mother,"- she says. "Well,"- I say, upset at being visualized in a skirt, "sometimes you sound just like your mother."- I feel a need to strike back in order to give myself some fighting room. A chance to think about things. My wife's comment isn't negative, it's an observation. I love my mother. I think she's a great woman. But I'd just as soon be me.

So, the next time you pass a mirror and see your parents remember that what you see isn't only yours. All of us, in some ways, will be shared by others.

While with others, their children and their children's children may never know us. Life is a gift from God, and all of us pass the presents along.

Tags: happy, mommies, day

Penguin Tale Tops Lists Of Challenged Books

Thu, 08 May 2008 15:13:11 GMT

clipped by: debbyski
clipper's remarks: Why does SEX bother the same people who seems so at ease with KILLING people? What is going on here??? Sex between two consenting adults who care deeply for each other is a beautiful, wonderful, and awesome thing. And sexual orientation is fixed and CANNOT be changed through prayer or counseling, and it's NOT a matter of choice. Why do some people want to interpret the question of immorality with reference to themselves as far as sexual orientation is concerned?

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

NEW YORK - A children's story about a family of penguins with two fathers once again tops the list of library books the public objects to the most.

"And Tango Makes Three," released in 2005 and co-written by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell, was the most "challenged" book in public schools and libraries for the second straight year, according to the American Library Association.

"The complaints are that young children will believe that homosexuality is a lifestyle that is acceptable.

Other books on the ALA's top 10 list include Maya Angelou's memoir "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," in which the author writes of being raped as a young girl; Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," long attacked for alleged racism; and Philip Pullman's "The Golden Compass," an anti-religious work in which a former nun says: "The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake."

Cher At Caesars Palace

Thu, 08 May 2008 14:46:38 GMT

clipped by: debbyski
clipper's remarks: Anyone who can look and dress like that at 62 is my kind of hero

Clip Source: www.latimes.com

Tuesday night, the ultimate Colosseum dweller arrived. Cher

One last tribute must be paid to the Colosseum's new goddess. Any sixtysomething who can wear flesh-colored body stockings, even with the hint of a corset beneath, is truly supernatural.

"Do you know what it's like to kneel down when you're 62?" Cher joked after someone threw a sailor hat onstage -- a reference to her sexiest video, in which she entertained some troops while wearing a thong. She picked up the cap with one quick, gamin swoop.

"I guess it depends what I'm kneeling down for," she added, smirking. "I'm old. I'm not dead."

Maybe she really is immortal.

Heaven Or Hell, Your Choice

Thu, 08 May 2008 07:28:37 GMT

clipped by: debbyski
clipper's remarks:

Clip Source: women.timesonline.co.uk

Edgar Kim and Nathan Davis of Tacoma, Washington State, the founders of the website reserveaspotinheaven.com, have done what many before them have failed to do: struck a deal with the Almighty. “We are the only official distributor of reservations into Heaven,” they maintain. “We are directly affiliated and sent down by the Board of Heavenly Officials, the only governing body in Heaven, to offer you one thing and one thing only: a worry-free, secure way into Heaven.”

So what will $12.95 get you? The essential travel kit: not only a first-class ticket to ride but an official Heaven Identification Card and a mini-information guide (so you can avoid culture shock)

And if damp conditions never did suit you, worry not. For exactly the same price you can swap hymns and the Bible for “shots and strippers” at reserveaspotinhell.com. With a 100 per cent money-back guarantee on all of packages, there's simply nothing to lose. Book now, or forever hold thy peace.

I'm Not An Addict

Wed, 07 May 2008 14:32:47 GMT

clipped by: debbyski
clipper's remarks: "The deeper the thoughts, there's no more pain
I'm in heaven, I'm a god
I'm everywhere, I feel so hot"

We all have our drugs of choice and we all use various outlets to deal with the pressures of life. We all have an escape destination whether it be tuning out to the tv or work or music. If what you turn to doesn't kill your body or your mind, then temporary relief isn't a bad thing, I suppose.

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The Only Woman to Earn the Congressional Medal of Honor

Wed, 07 May 2008 13:30:34 GMT

clipped by: alanocu
clipper's remarks: The following is a Woman of Courage profile written and produced by the St. Lawrence County, NY Branch of the American Association of University Women. - http://www.northnet.org/stlawrenceaauw/walker.htm

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Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

Dr. Mary Edwards Walker (November 26, 1832 – February 21, 1919) was an American feminist, abolitionist, prohibitionist, alleged spy, prisoner of war, surgeon, and the only woman to receive the Medal of Honor.

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After the war, Walker was recommended for the Medal of Honor by Generals William Tecumseh Sherman and George Henry Thomas. On November 11, 1865, President Andrew Johnson signed a bill to present her the medal, specifically for her services at the First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas).

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In 1917, the U.S. Congress, after revising the standards for award of the medal so that it could only be given to those who had been involved in "actual combat with an enemy", revoked more than 900 previously-awarded medals, including that of Dr. Mary Edwards Walker and William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody. Although ordered to return the medal, she refused to do so and continued to wear it until her death.

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President Jimmy Carter restored her medal posthumously in 1977.

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Tags: mary edwards walker, civil war