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How 2 Spell

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:53:30 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A refresher for some of you!

How to Spell

The English language is confusing, packed with inconsistencies and exceptions that anyone who's learning the language for the first time will be quick to point out. There are so many ways to write out a single sound that theoretically, you could pronounce the word "ghoti" as "fish" (if you pronounce the gh as in tough, the o as in women and the ti as in nation).^[1] If you're struggling to get a grasp on those silent vowels, confusing consonants, and crazy pronunciations, here's how you can improve.

Learn spelling rules.

Identify problematic words.

Sound it out.

Watch out for homonyms and homophones.

Be familiar with "piggyback pairs". It's not uncommon for pairs of consonants to be pronounced so that one is silent and figuratively "piggybacks" on the sound of the other. Make note of the following:

Use mnemonics.

Practice.

Copyedit someone else's work.

Watch out for the "grocer's apostrophe."

Commonly Misspelled Words

Should Spanking Be Illegal?

Sat, 01 Dec 2007 13:36:25 GMT

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Clip Source: abcnews.go.com

Massachusetts lawmakers say a proposed measure that would ban parents from spanking their children, even in their own homes, is a way to protect kids from abuse. But many parents believe it's an example of government run amok.

In all 50 states, parents are legally allowed to spank their children. But in 29 states it's illegal for a teacher to practice corporal punishment, including spanking.

A Massachusetts nurse is hoping to change that and make the state the first in the nation to ban corporal punishment at home.

"I think it's ironic that domestic violence applies to everyone except the most vulnerable — children," said Kathleen Wolf, who wrote the bill.

And one mother echoed the sentiments of many, saying, "I don't want the government telling me how to raise my children."

Nineteen countries have banned corporal punishment, and some child-rearing experts believe one day the United States will do so as well.

Tags: my, parents, would, still, be, in, jail

Cut Paper Art and Illustration by Patrick Gannon

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:48:10 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Aren't they lovely?

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“The Monkey King's Advisor” | cut-paper

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“Hitching a Ride on the Breathe of Fortune” | cut-paper/wood | Sold

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“Koi Kihagaki”

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“Social Grooming”

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“A Welcome Messenger”

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“Meeting the Neighbors”

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“Year of the Boar”

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“The Raven”

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“Red Thread Expectations”

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“Hulk”

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“Paper Cut Ninja”

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“Gravity and the Rebellious Stone”

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“The Angler Underground”

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“BottleGirl”

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“Year of the Dog (Cerberus)”

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“Walken”

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“A Black Hat Reputation (COO)”

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“The Inventor (CFO)”

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“Total Ban”

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“WaveRider”

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“OilSucker”

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“OmniScience”

Baby Mops

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:59:47 GMT

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Clip Source: www.metro.co.uk

Babies used as mops could save money

With global financial markets in turmoil parents looking in to firing their cleaners and using their babies as human mops.

Parents fed up of the take, take, take attitude of babies are turning them into human mops so they can learn a 'healthy work ethic' early by cleaning the floor as they crawl around.

The device is essentially a baby-grow with fluffy mop ends attached to clean up grime as a baby crawls around wooden or tiled floors.

In its sales pitch the advert reads: 'After the birth of a child there's always the temptation to say 'Yes, it's cute, but what can it do?'

'Until recently the answer was simply 'lie there and cry' but now babies can be put on the payroll, so to speak, almost as soon as they're born.

'Just dress your young one in Baby Mops and set him or her down on any hard wood or tile floor that needs cleaning.'

9/11 of its Day. Today: King David Atrocity.

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:07:52 GMT

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clipper's remarks: From criminal, to terrorist, to killer, to Prime Minister, to Nobel Peace Prize winner, yes it had to be a Zionist. Menachem Begin was commander of the Irgun terrorist gang then more infamous and feared than today's al Qaeda.

Begin wrote in his memoirs, The Revolt:
" History and experience taught us that if we are able to destroy the prestige of the British in Palestine, the regime will break. Since we found the enslaving government's weak point, we did not let go of it."
Words that could be about the USA instead of the Brits by al Qaeda and not the Prime Minister of Israel.

Any Arab terrorists have a long long way to go in the terrorist league to catch the Zionists.

Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

King David Hotel bombing

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an attack by the Irgun on the King David Hotel headquarters of the British Mandatory authorities of Palestine, which was carried out in Jerusalem on the 22nd of July, 1946

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Irgun

Raziel who proved to be the most prominent Irgun commander until Menachem Begin

assumed a Rabbi's identity ("Yisrael Sasover")

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Clip Source: www.britains-smallwars.com

Major Mackintosh, became suspicious of this group of Arabs and began to ask questions, but was suddenly gunned down by a member of the Jewish gang and subsequently died. A policeman stationed at the tradesman's entrance suffered a similar fate when he challenged the Jewish terrorists. Both victims were unarmed

Many were killed instantly as the whole wing of the building collapsed about them, others were trapped and many more injured.

Not all the 91 one people killed were members of the British Security Forces. There were 15 Jews among the dead, including women

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Menachem Begin

6th Prime Minister of Israel

arrested by the NKVD

NKVD mug shot of Menachem Begin, 1940

Lukiškės

Tags: history, terrorist, israel, atrocity, pm

This Man Has the Largest Penis in the World

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 06:29:59 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Wooooooooo

Clip Source: news.softpedia.com

This Man Has the Largest Penis in the World: 13.5 in (34.29 cm) Erect!

Enlarge picture

We may not be so impressive as other species with our physical abilities: powerful muscles or weaponry like fangs, claws, horns and so on. But we have evolved to excel in one issue: sex. Not regarding sexual activity - as it has been shown that the bonobo (which is also wrongly named "dwarf chimpanzee") has more sex and much varied than the human being - but penis size.

Man is the ape, the monkey and the primate with the biggest penis!

it appears to be the New Yorker Jonah Cardeli Falcon (born July 29, 1970). His willy is 9.5 in (24.13 cm) flaccid, 13.5 in (34.29 cm) erect! The average human penis is 6 in (15 cm) long...

But the huge penis is not a blessing.

He lives with his mom and his whale penis, without a girlfriend for 12 years.

"When I meet people they find it hard to look me in the eye, they just see what’s in my trousers.

Tags: news

State of Hawaii confirms Obama birth certificate

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:45:15 GMT

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clipper's remarks: From Politifact.com: Hawaii Department of Health confirms it is exactly as Obama campaign represented it.

Clip Source: www.politifact.com

SUMMARY: For months we've been asking for a birth certificate to sort out rumors about Barack Obama's real name. Confirmed by the state of Hawaii, here it is.

See it for yourself here.

Shortly after we posted this document on June 12, 2008, some PolitiFact readers questioned its authenticity.

To verify we did indeed have the correct document, we contacted the Hawaii Department of Health, which maintains such records.

"It's a valid Hawaii state birth certificate," spokesman Janice Okubo said June 13, 2008, after we e-mailed her our copy.

Tags: obama, birth certificate

Virginal Anal: If you've ever wondered.

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:18:23 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I'm not wondering now. See the article. Very informative in a comic way. Popped if you have or pop if you haven't. Ha ha

Clip Source: www.alternet.org

Taking It Like a Man

The first time my girlfriend fucked me in the ass it was with a small purple strap-on dildo

Like any lady should before taking her man's anal virginity, my girlfriend took me for a night on the town beforehand

Butt sex wasn't my idea. As far as anal is concerned, I'm not exactly a connoisseur

Aside from a female college friend turned one night stand who demanded it and the occasional forefinger while I'm going down on a woman I haven't thrown much up anybody's

aside from receiving the occasional stinky pinky while a girl went down on me, not much had been up mine

It was early on in our relationship when Mac asked if I would let her fuck me in the ass with a strap-on, and I was drunk

I was curious

I've been curious about more than a few things that I've never actually gotten around to doing

Mac had been sleeping with women since high school and she and her ex-girlfriends had screwed each other with strap-ons

Besides, I got to fuck her all the time; it only seemed fair.

Tags: sex, female, male

My cunt examination

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:31:03 GMT

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clipper's remarks: WTF

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Tags: humor

American Embassy In Iran?

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:50:24 GMT

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Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is considering setting up a diplomatic outpost in Iran in what would mark a dramatic official U.S. return to the country nearly 30 years after the American embassy was overrun and the two nations severed relations.

Like the one in communist Cuba, an interest section, or de facto embassy, in the Iranian capital would give the United States a presence on the ground through which it can communicate directly with students,

It would process visa applications and serve as a center for American cultural outreach to locals, the officials said

The United States now has a small office in the Gulf state of Dubai that handles routine visa matters for Iranians but officials say it is not easily accessible and unable to do the work that an interests section could do.

Iran has operated an interests section in Washington for years,

The officials said Iran would be hard pressed to deny the United States permission for a reciprocal presence in Tehran.

Tags: iran, tehran, embasy, bush administration

you have more than reached your destination

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:24:45 GMT

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Clip Source: www.news.com.au

'Sleeping' pilots fly right past destination

AN Air India flight headed for Mumbai overshot its destination and was halfway to Goa before its dozing pilots were woken out of a deep slumber by air traffic control, a report said.

The plane flew to Mumbai on autopilot, but when air traffic there tried to help the aircraft land, the plane ignored their instructions and carried on at full speed towards Goa.

"It was only after the aircraft reached Mumbai airspace that air traffic control realised it was not responding to any instructions and was carrying on its own course,'' the source said.

"The aircraft should have begun its descent about 100 miles (160km) from Mumbai, but here it was still at cruising altitude. We checked for hijack.''

Finally air traffic control buzzed the cockpit and woke up the pilots, who turned the plane around, the report said.

Zionist Neocons Pushed Iraqi Invasion

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:44:45 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Joe Klein Suggests Jewish Neocons Pushed Iraq War to `Make World Safe for Israel`

Clip Source: www.israelenews.com

Joe Klein Suggests Jewish Neocons Pushed Iraq War to `Make World Safe for Israel`

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Now Joe Klein has raised the issue of dual loyalty around the neoconservatives' motivation for "plump"ing for the Iraq war:

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Beautiful. A war to make the world safe for Israel. (Though I'd note that Klein needs to paste on the figleaf of the oil men having dual loyalty too. Dubious.) And note why Klein is saying this now: the overheated rhetoric re Iran. The realist view of the Israel/Palestine issue is coming inside.

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Three of the five Israeli agents appeared on Israeli television in November 2001 and admitted that their purpose had been to document the 9-11 attacks.

The Israeli military intentionally attacked the USS Liberty in June 1967, killing 34 and wounding 171.

Ariel Sharon, Israel's prime minister in 2001, has a long history of committing large-scale terrorist crimes.

Yerucham Bzozowitch (a.k.a. Eitan Livni), chief terror planner for the Irgun. Livni,

went to Britain in the 1940s to kill British leaders.

Tags: israel, 9/11, neocons, iraq, invasion

Women

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:23:40 GMT

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clipper's remarks: With the horror of the recent "honor" killing in Georgia as the backdrop, I'm inspired to remind everyone that women die at the hands of male family members every day in the US. In fact, 4 times a day.

I'm tired of the Right acting like they really care about women and gender equality.

The only mention of women in the 2004 Republican platform is their insistence that if a woman gets pregnant, by law she'll stay that way until delivery.

I went to a number of right wing websites and typed the words "violence against women" into their search engines. If any stories were listed at all, they were about honor killings in the Muslim world.

The Right wrap their "concern" for women in the cloak of anti-Islamic rhetoric concerning honor killings and are dumb, deaf, and blind to all else.

Enough. Islam is not the problem. Patriarchy is.

Clip Source: www.now.org

Violence Against Women in the United States

MURDER. Every day four women die in this country as a result of domestic violence, the euphemism for murders and assaults by husbands and boyfriends. That's approximately 1,400 women a year, according to the FBI.

BATTERING. Although only 572,000 reports of assault by intimates are officially reported to federal officials each year, the most conservative estimates indicate two to four million women of all races and classes are battered each year. At least 170,000 of those violent incidents are serious enough to require hospitalization, emergency room care or a doctor's attention.

SEXUAL ASSAULT. Every year approximately 132,000 women report that they have been victims of rape or attempted rape, and more than half of them knew their attackers. It's estimated that two to six times that many women are raped, but do not report it. Every year 1.2 million women are forcibly raped by their current or former male partners, some more than once.

Tags: women, womens rights, patriarchy, us women, statistics, domestic violence, murder, rape, battery

50 Facts that Should Change the World

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:00:27 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Interesting

Clip Source: www.christiantoday.com

50 Facts that Should Change the World

1 THE average Japanese woman can expect to live to 84; her counterpart in Botswana will die at 39.

2 BLACK men born in the US stand a one-in-three chance of going to jail. For white men the odds are one in 17.

3 ONE in five of the world's population - 1.25 billion people - is undernourished.

4 NEARLY half of British 15-year-olds have tried illegal drugs and nearly a quarter are regular cigarette smokers.

7 SUPERMARKETS in the UK know more about their customers than the government does. They use loyalty cards to determine your income and what your interests are.

11 THERE are 27 million slaves in the world.

14 ONE in five people live on less than 50p a day.

15 THERE are 44 million child labourers in India, some working 16-hour days.

21 CARS kill two people every minute.

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24 IN Kenya, bribery payments make up a third of the average household budget.

27 MORE than 150 countries are known to use torture.

33 THE world's oil reserves could be exhausted by 2040.

Tags: economy, stability, war, violence, crime, population, global, oil, money, dollar

Is Bush the worst U.S. president ever?

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:36:09 GMT

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Clip Source: www.thestar.com

Is Bush the worst U.S. president ever?

Mar 22, 2008 04:30 AM

Historians will argue over whether George W. Bush is the worst president the United States has ever endured.

Bush is not the first U.S. president to take a cavalier attitude to civil liberties. Abraham Lincoln did so during the Civil War, while modern presidents reaching back to at least John Kennedy and Dwight Eisenhower have sanctioned the use of illegal assassination.

An alleged fiscal conservative, he drove the U.S. treasury into deficit to pay for his wars and tax cuts.

Among U.S. historians, it has become great sport to rank the country's presidents. Bush vies with many for the title of absolute worst – from Ulysses S. Grant, who oversaw a post-Civil War era so corrupt it was known as Grant's Barbecue, to Richard Nixon of Watergate fame, to Herbert Hoover, the hapless president in charge during the stock market crash of 1929.