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Rove's Third Term

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:02:34 GMT

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Al Gore never claimed that he invented the Internet. Howard Dean didn’t scream. Hillary Clinton didn’t say she was staying in the race because Barack Obama might be assassinated. And Wesley Clark didn’t impugn John McCain’s military service.

Scott McClellan, the former White House press secretary, titled his tell-all memoir “What Happened.” But a true account of modern American politics should be titled “What Didn’t Happen.” Again and again we’ve had media firestorms over supposedly revealing incidents that never actually took place.

Yet the Clark affair did reveal something important — not about General Clark, but about Mr. McCain. Now we know what a McCain administration would represent: namely, a third term for Karl Rove.

Will Rovian tactics work this year?

In 2002 and 2004, Republicans were so successful at playing the patriotism card thanks to a combination of compliant media and cowering Democrats.

The Forgotten Cost of High Gas Prices

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 11:45:03 GMT

clipped by: debbyski
clipper's remarks: "In the survey of agencies, more than 70 percent said it was more difficult to recruit and keep volunteers.
A recent survey by the group concluded that home health and hospice workers drove 4.8 billion miles in 2006 to serve 12 million clients. “If we lose these agencies in rural areas, we’ll never get them back,” Mr. Halamandaris said."

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SOUTH HAVEN, Mich. — Early last month, Jeanne Fair, 62, got her first hot meals delivered to her home in this lake town in the sparsely populated southwestern part of the state. Then after two deliveries the meals stopped because gas prices had made the delivery too expensive.

“They called and said I was outside of the delivery area,” said Mrs. Fair, who is homebound and has not been able to use her left arm since a stroke in 1997.

Faced with soaring gasoline prices, agencies around the country that provide services to the elderly say they are having to cut back on programs like Meals on Wheels, transportation assistance and home care, especially in rural areas that depend on volunteers who provide their own gas

But older poor people and those who are homebound are doubly squeezed by rising gas and food prices, because they rely not just on social service agencies, but also on volunteers.

THE Bigot is Dead

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 01:24:15 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Jesse Helms was a disgraceful representation of an elected official in our country. He despised blacks, gays, lesbians, hispanics and everyone who did not look like him or believed as he believed.

While I never take pleasure in the death of another human being, it is my sincere hope that with his death, another layer of bigotry in the U.S. is buried with him. I have to think that maybe seeing Obama on the brink of the presidency may have been just too much for his aging heart to take.

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Jesse Helms, an unrepentant supporter of unnatural causes throughout his life, died of natural causes this morning at the age of 86.

The death of Helms is just about the best birthday present the United States could wish for on July 4. Free at last — of Jesse Helms.

As a senator, he explained that he voted against Roberta Achtenberg, President Clinton's nominee for a Housing and Urban Development position, "because she's a damn lesbian."

In 1990, Helms stayed away in protest when Nelson Mandela addressed a joint session of Congress.

While the networks and most of the press will soft-pedal his virulent racism and reckless disregard for the First Amendment in his hounding of artists, foreigners and many others, Helms stayed his divisive course until the bitter end — at least until the end of his public career.

And it's fitting that he should die during a presidential race that features young black man Barack Obama.

Alive In Independence Hall: The Declaration of Independence

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:46:25 GMT

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clipper's remarks: DO NOT MISS THIS!!!

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Looking For Liberty

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:57:00 GMT

clipped by: debbyski

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

ACCORDING to the film “National Treasure,” the Declaration of Independence is a document of such far-seeing sagacity that it has secret codes and treasure maps hidden in the parchment. You just have to know how to look for them. But that poses the question: which document, precisely, is the Declaration of Independence?

Most of us would answer that it’s the manuscript written on vellum, dated July 4, 1776, now displayed in a baroque case at the National Archives, where it is protected by bulletproof glass, argon gas and the 55-ton underground vault it is lowered into every night. But like everything connected to the Declaration, the situation is complicated, for that document was not written on July 4; it was a handwritten copy that Congress ordered later that summer and post-dated. The version that was in the room as the vote was taken has never been seen since then.

Adopt A Scientist Program

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:39:29 GMT

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clipper's remarks: If you can afford to be involved , it could be fun, oh, and educational.

Clip Source: www.seti.org

Anyone can adopt a SETI Institute scientist and become part of the adventure!

Each of our scientists offers a compelling journey of discovery. When you adopt a scientist, you help lead the way towards answering profound questions regarding our place in the universe.

The SETI Institute’s Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe and Center for SETI Research are home to more than 90 scientists. Their work covers a broad spectrum of research dedicated to understanding the origins of life and the extent to which life may be present beyond Earth. Traditionally, each scientist, or principal investigator (PI), has had many partners who sponsor his/her work including NASA, the National Science Foundation, and major universities. However, current trends in government funding are making it increasingly difficult for astrobiologists to depend on those sources of support.

Tags: science, is, expensive

Japan's Booming Sex Niche: Elder Porn

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:54:43 GMT

clipped by: zasel
clipper's remarks: Any entrepreneurs here in the west, might take a lesson from the Japanese business world. Instead of paying our elderly their measly social security payments, perhaps we could offer them jobs in the porn industry. The money is great, and they can work mostly on their backs.

Clip Source: www.time.com

Shigeo Tokuda looks like any other 74-year-old man in Japan. Despite suffering a heart attack three years ago, the lifelong salaryman now feels healthier, and lives happily with his wife and a daughter in downtown Tokyo. He is, of course, more physically active than most retirees, but that's because he's kept his part-time job — as a porn star.

A WHO report released in March found that 1 in 4 married couples in Japan had not made love in the previous year, while 38% of couples in their 50s no longer have sex at all.

the country has seen a surge in demand for pornography that has turned adult videos into a billion-dollar industry, with "elder porn" one of its fastest-growing genres.

Director Gaichi Kono says the eroticism of elders is captivating to younger viewers.

A popular young actress can earn up to $100,000 per film, while a mature actress is paid only $2,000.

The market for elder porn has doubled over the past decade, according to Kadowaki.

Understanding Rape in India

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:23:37 GMT

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Clip Source: www.truthout.org

"The truth, however, is that the male is the enjoyer and female a thing to be enjoyed ..."

- Manu Smiriti

Sweden - Social and psychological discrimination appeared in an Indian courtroom on April 3rd, 2005, when minutes before sentencing was due, a convicted rapist offered his victim a marriage proposal. The man, who said he was offering to marry the woman because the stigma of rape in India meant no one else would, was convicted of raping and seriously injuring a 22-year-old nurse in September 2003 at the hospital where they both worked. The survivor was asked in court whether she would accept the proposal from her attacker, who had hoped it might lower his sentence. The judge postponed sentencing until the next day, when the rape victim told the court she had rejected his petition.

So many questions come to any sane person's mind, most importantly: did the court, as a "law-making" institution, even consider the dangers such a precedent would pose to women?

Tags: different, cultures, why, so, hard, on, women

Oh My Sweet Carolina

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:02:48 GMT

clipped by: debbyski

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

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Tags: what, compels, me, to, go

I Will Follow You

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:15:10 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Click on source

Clip Source: www.imeem.com

I Will Follow You Into The Dark

The Dresden Dolls

Amanda Palmer

Amanda Palmer singing I Will Follow You Into The Dark originally by Death Cab For Cutie.

Someday You Will Ache Like I Ache

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:28:21 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I want to be the girl with the most cake . . .

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Tags: i, understand, it, all, too, well, baby

FUCK YOU Rocky Mountain Chocolate

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:34:31 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I'll never forget when my oldest daughter was about 2 years old and had to use the bathroom while I was shopping in a store and management said the bathroom was for employee's only. My daughter was crying and I told her you either let this child use the bathroom or you get a mop and clean up her mess NOW. She chose the bathroom. Business has to start respecting the customers who give them their wealth.

Clip Source: consumerist.com

A reader writes: "Last night we were out with friends and went to the Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory at Bella Terra/Huntington Beach. We were eating outside as my 5 year old daughter got an uncontrollable urge to use the bathroom and began crying and screaming 'diarrhea, diarrhea.' I ran into the store with her in my arms, begging to use the bathroom and they refused multiple times."

I explained she had diarrhea and couldn't hold it and told them she was about to go on the floor. They refused again and never offered me any alternatives. I begged them to have a heart and that she was 5 but by that time she had lost it all over herself and me. I ran with her in my arms to the movie theater that let me use their bathroom. I cleaned her up, threw out some of her clothes and went back to the Chocolate Factory - asking for names and number of management.

A most unlikely hero: a Fascist who saved Jews - Giorgio Prelasca

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:02:38 GMT

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Clip Source: findarticles.com

Perlasca had named himself Spanish consul, without any authorization whatsoever, on December 1, 1944, when the real Spanish ambassador fled to Switzerland. For the next two months, Perlasca would be in charge of the embassy, and his management of Spain's protection program for Hungarian Jews would save some five thousand of them from certain death in the gas chambers.

Perlasca's diary of his two-month consulship

recounts the extraordinary exploits of Perlasca and a small group of collaborators on the embassy staff: churning out thousands of false documents, setting up and defending eight "safe houses"under Spanish jurisdiction, finding food and medicine on the black market, negotiating with the Hungarian authorities, and, together with Wallenberg and representatives of other neutral countries (Portugal, Switzerland, and the Vatican), pulling innocent victims from freight cars bound for the death camps

an ingenious organizer, a convincing "diplomat,"and a truly magnificent impostor

Tags: history, heroes, war

How Homophobia Hurts Us All

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:30:12 GMT

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clipper's remarks: It hurts me that my own Mother wouldn't love me if she knew I was bisexual, but it also helps me to know that through it all some people can love me for who I am. My husband, my youngest daughter, my very best friends, and the support at CM.

Clip Source: www.udel.edu

You do not have to be gay, lesbian, or bisexual, or know someone who is, to be negatively affected by homophobia. Though homophobia actively oppresses gay men, lesbians, and bisexuals, it also hurts heterosexuals.

Inhibits the ability of heterosexuals to form close, intimate relationships with members of their own sex, for fear of being perceived as lesbian, gay, or bisexual (LGB).

Locks people into rigid gender-based roles that inhibit creativity and self expression.

Compromises human integrity by pressuring people to treat others badly, actions that are contrary to their basic humanity.

Inhibits appreciation of other types of diversity, making it unsafe for everyone because each person has unique traits not considered mainstream or dominant. We are all diminished when any one of us is demeaned.

By challenging homophobia, people are not only fighting oppression for specific groups of people, but are striving for a society that accepts and celebrates the differences in all of us.

Tags: thank, you, all

'The Cube', by Jim Henson (rare colored version)

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 14:39:23 GMT

clipped by: Djiezes
clipper's remarks: This '69 version by Jim Henson is more mysterious, psychological & philosophical and lacks the violence of the later sci-fi/horror films: The Cube, Cube 2: Hypercube and Cube Zero.

It's supposed to be in better quality than the original black/white version, but I doubt that since it's in .flv.

I included some links to wikipedia & imdb should you be curious for more.

Clip Source: video.google.com

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The Cube- rare color version (1969)

Created by Jim Henson, this made for tv movie broke new grounds. This is an extremely rare color version of the typically black and white film. Also, the quality is significantly better.

Jim Henson

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The Cube

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The Cube film series is a series of three Canadian science fiction/horror films directed by Vincenzo Natali, Andrzej Sekula and Ernie Barbarash respectively.

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Cube

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Cube 2: Hypercube

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Cube Zero

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The Cube (1969) (TV)

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Cube (1997)

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Cube 2: Hypercube (2002)

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Cube Zero (2004)

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

The Cube was an hour long teleplay that aired on NBC's weekly anthology television show NBC Experiment in Television February 23, 1969. The production was produced and directed by puppeteer Jim Henson, and was one of several experiments with the live-action film medium which he conducted in the 1960s, before focusing entirely on the Muppets and other puppet works. The screenplay was co-written by long-time Muppet writer Jerry Juhl (who also appears in a cameo).

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